CFO News Room

DECEMBER 21, 2022

For consumer brands doing business in China, no date on the retail calendar carries more weight than November 11, also known as Singles’ Day. Today, the event is the pinnacle of the global retail calendar, with over 290,000 brands offering 17 million products to over 1 billion annual active consumers across Alibaba’s ecosystem this year.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

“RHB is proud to be at the forefront of fraud prevention in Malaysia,” said Nazri Othman, acting head of group retail banking at RHB Banking Group. “In By partnering with Visa and IDEMIA, we have been able to leverage on best-in-class security features to safeguard our customers’ financial resources.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2017

Zooz also offers secure data storage and protection for consumer information. million in four investment rounds. PYMNTS: Can you show me some data or proof points on how the company has helped retailers? Having a big retailer put their trust in our technology at such an early point meant the world to us.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

His comments came on the heels of a recent Commerce Ventures capital raise for a new, $60 million fund aimed at the retail and financial services sector. They can capture that distribution by aligning with incumbents who can leverage enablers’ innovations. And it’s not overfunded by a little bit,” he told Webster of challenger banks.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Mature buyers are becoming more open to leveraging third-party support across more complex, judgment-intensive processes [such as financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and tax] as well as industry-specific processes (such as premium collections and claims accounting in the insurance sector). Trends driving FAO. Other findings.

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CFO Talks

MARCH 19, 2024

The CFO needs to consider how AI can be leveraged not just for automating routine tasks, but also for providing deeper insights into financial forecasting, risk management, and strategic decision-making. Leveraging Technology for Communication In today’s digital age, leveraging technology to communicate the finance agenda is crucial.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

But we want to take a few minutes to talk about pop-up shops, and how those temporary but often lucrative retail efforts are shaping commerce — and being shaped by payments — and what could be coming next. Even so, the company has certainly not given up on physical retail. Riding Retail Trends.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With growth also high on the agenda of Boards and CEOs, finance leaders must balance cost-control efforts against investments. They also had to learn how to leverage the new opportunities from payments to go beyond just the handling of transactions, and how to derive new revenue streams and build new products and services around payments.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

But before we shut the door on 2019, it bears taking a moment to note how much the world of retail has changed in the last year, a fitting capstone on a decade that has seen retail as the American consumer commonly knew it taken to the ground and rebuilt nearly from the foundations. Lesson 1: Think Big . “We

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2016

Goldman Sachs has officially entered the world of online retail banking. On Tuesday (April 26), various media outlets reported that the investment bank is expanding its customer base with the launch of its own FDIC-insured, Internet-based savings bank called GS Bank.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2017

More human and less robotic is the sound of the beating retail drum this year. To provide more human-like responses, cognitive computing is key, and the retail industry is taking note. Retail executives are increasingly more confident in the use of artificial intelligence and natural language processing.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

Armis stated on its website that it “will continue to operate independently and will be fully managed by its two co-founders, Yevgeny Dibrov, CEO, and Nadir Izrael, CTO, and executive team, while leveraging the support of Insight’s industry-leading business strategy and ScaleUp division, Onsite.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2020

Digital fraud continues to flourish, with recent surveys finding that security breaches have increased 67 percent since 2014 and 11 percent since 2018. Organizations and security developers are investing billions of dollars in fighting these fraud attempts. Casualties of these breaches in the first half of 2019 alone include 4.1

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

There’s arguably no more polarizing macroeconomic issue in the retail world than the fate of the American mall. The problems start with how retailers view and serve the customer. Caught in the middle of this customer squeeze are real estate investment trusts (REITs). But apparently they’re doing something right in Philadelphia.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Retailers that are unable to call on substantial financial reserves are struggling in the current environment. Mobile shopping is growing and a key focus of retailers going into the holiday season. Mobile shopping is growing and a key focus of retailers going into the holiday season. billion leveraged buyout in 2013.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

shoppers found that half had used online D2C channels to secure consumer pac kaged goods, for example. Normally they might open brick-and-mortar locations to increase their brands’ visibilities and deliver expanded customer services, but low foot traffic levels during the pandemic make this less of a reliable investment.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). We operate the only truly global luxury digital marketplace at scale, seamlessly connecting brands, retailers and consumers. Within that latter number, stated Farfetch, at the end of the most recent quarter, “we partnered with 614 of the world’s leading luxury retailers and 375 brands.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

As the holiday shopping season approaches, retailers large and small are preparing for the coming rush of consumers looking to cross items off of their wish lists. Cybercriminals tend to ramp up their attacks against retailers around the holiday season, when revenues are highest and opportunity is ripe.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

It predicts at least one and possibly more real estate investment trusts (REITs) will need to file for bankruptcy as retailers struggle to pay rent and consumers stay away either by choice or due to new lockdown mandates. This includes leveraging real estate for Macy’s and Nordstrom.”. mall owners.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

But the pandemic-inspired shift to digital commerce has raised consumer expectations for seamless simplicity in multichannel journeys and pressured retailers slower to enter the world of omnichannel to work double-time to catch up. . Any retailer who wants the sale will need enough speed to bounce along with them. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Looking at Working Capital – and Security. Many verticals have been able to pivot into the digital age, such as grocers who shifted to delivery models (“it only took them a few weeks to solve daily delivery,” he told Webster) and retailers who offer curbside pickup. All high-tech is not created equal. Looking Ahead .

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2020

“Our fiscal year 2020 profitability outlook demonstrates the strength of our financial model when scale and leverage are achieved. CEO John Foley said he was in no rush to reopen the company’s 100 retail showrooms. “We But we are committed to retail. We love retail in this environment. percent year-over-year.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

Even bitcoin is accepted by only a relative handful of digital retailers. Mastercard on Monday (July 20) announced the expansion of its cryptocurrency partner program to streamline the process for crypto-wallet providers to issue secure, compliant payment cards to their customers. Or at least they didn’t until now.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And in leveraging Amazon’s scale as a platform — with millions of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and even micro-sized businesses hawking pretty much everything under the sun — it might seem a “slam dunk” if, say, a financial industry powerhouse were looking to bring small business loans to a new market. The Challenge.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

That’s one of the main messages of a new PYMNTS interview with Regio Martins, CEO and founder of nobli , which aims to enable businesses to offer more forms of collateral when seeking loans — the company’s personal loans are secured by financial collateral. In essence, nobli functions as a Credit-as-a-Service provider.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2017

Retailers are seeking solutions to digitize their physical stores—both as a means to draw consumers in, but also to leverage the data that comes with digital transformation. million seed investment round led by Zetta Venture Partners with participation from Vertex Ventures. Just recently, Dor announced a $3.8

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

We’ve worked with a lot of retailers this year to help them build curbside when they had no curbside at all as well as to create touchless payments experiences. It wasn’t that long ago that retailers fulfilled through a distribution or fulfillment center. And they did it really fast and I think that will be very compelling.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

Demand remains an Achilles heel for all cryptocurrencies because most people have soured on this investment class, and have no interest in putting in new money. AAX will leverage LSEG’s Technology to deliver a world-class exchange that ensures safe, trusted and secure digital asset trading for all.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Michael Fisch, American Securities , is below. Michael Fish is co-founder and CEO of American Securities. I found this conversation to really be intriguing and I think you will also, with, with no further ado, my discussion with American Security, CEO, Michael Fish.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

to advance secure, contactless transactions as stores reopen amid COVID-19 restrictions. Peter Hazlehurst, CEO of Synctera, tells Karen Webster that Synctera is a next-gen banking-services platform that facilitates FinTech scale by enabling banks to leverage their current compliance and account-servicing capabilities in new ways.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 4, 2023

Within the industry, it is estimated that Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) supported 3.2 million jobs in 2021 , according to a study commissioned by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (Nareit). What Are Real Estate Investment Trusts? How Many Real Estate Investment Trusts Are There in Total?

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission, stood at $1.6 He said that the long-range plan is to deliver a consumer banking product that aims at the “mass-market consumer” and leverage the in-place bank charter, retail distribution and direct to consumer capabilities. in 2011 and thus gaining a banking charter). billion, up from $1.1

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Verifi’s solutions are expected to leverage Kount’s portfolio of services, so clients can expect to see five times the return on investment in the prevention of fraud, loss and chargebacks.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Many buyers who have secured financing digitally had a great experience and won’t go back to the old way of doing things — even when COVID-19 is no longer a factor.”. Going forward, the company plans to invest in market expansion, branding and marketing strategy, as well as technology-enabled tools to drive efficiency. Power 2020 U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

As customers pivoted toward addressing safety, wellness and security concerns amid a public health crisis, she said, the company was able to address those issues through curbside pickup and mobile ordering, creating an omnichannel experience. Social media represents another way to leverage and reward loyalty, noted panelists.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

Long before anyone had ever heard of the coronavirus or social distancing, eCommerce was slowly and steadily making progress and eating into the physical retail share of the shopping landscape. But, he noted, there is often a gulf between what firms say they are doing and what they are actually investing time and talent in.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2016

The National Retail Federation has asked the FTC to investigate the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council on the grounds that credit card companies “unfairly leverage their brands.” The NRF further notes that the government ought to find a new method by which to benchmark data security.

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