CFO Talks

APRIL 10, 2025

Using tools like Power BI, IDEA, or even Excel with pivot tables, you can identify: Duplicate payments Payments outside business hours Transactions near internal control thresholds Inconsistent vendor banking details Round number patterns (e.g. Are reconciliations documented with sign-offs? Whos checking the reconciler?

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CFO Talks

JUNE 20, 2025

It is known for results, deadlines, reconciliations, and that long, uphill push towards year-end. They make progress, especially in environments where pressure is high, morale is fragile, and everyone is desperate for a sign that the numbers are finally moving in the right direction. Share the numbers. Track the trends.

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Finance Auditing CFO Reconciliations 52

Musings on Markets

JUNE 2, 2025

BoC/BoE Sovereign Default Database While the number of sovereign defaults has ebbed and flowed over time, there are two points worth making about the data. In fact, the number of Aaa rated countries was the same in 1985, when there were thirteen rated countries, as in 2025, when there were 143 rated countries.

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Marketing Currencies Treasury Economics 116

Future CFO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In Southeast Asia, 38% of organisations anticipate a considerable number of adjustments to source Pillar Two reporting data, and 83% expect to make moderate to significant changes to their reporting processes.

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Compliance Budgeting Reconciliations Finance 52

Global Finance

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

These are collection accounts specifically developed to collect various public taxes: The amount of the advance available is determined based on expected receipts, and enriched reporting data enables automatic reconciliation in public accounting systems. At the end of 2023, Belfius had more than 12,000 public sector clients.

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Cash Management Treasury Reconciliations Banking 98

E78 Partners

JUNE 26, 2025

A tool that doesn’t just report the numbers but explains what they mean—and what to do about them. automates time-consuming tasks like invoice reconciliation, MACD processing, dispute tracking, and chargeback reporting. That’s what CAP A.I. Meet CAP A.I. – E78’s Centralized Analytics Portal CAP A.I. is not just another dashboard.

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Finance Invoicing Reconciliations Prioritization 52

Global Finance

MAY 6, 2025

Business accounts have also evolved, with customers able to generate tokenized account numbers that add precision to transaction reconciliations. Using the Velocity platform, the banks accounts are tokenized and embedded into QR codes, enabling customers to make instant payments via mobile phones.

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Cash Management Leverage Banking Reconciliations 52

Global Finance

MAY 1, 2025

Tam Digital Bank, KFH’s digital bank in Kuwait, recorded strong customer numbers and transaction growth. The bank expanded its host-to-host and application programming interface (API) integration capabilities beyond payments and reconciliation to include trade finance solutions.

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Finance Banking Retail Investments 83

CFO Dive

JULY 10, 2025

Samuel Corum via Getty Images The recently-enacted “ One Big Beautiful Bill Act ” could help lift sagging merger-and-acquisition volume numbers by creating a more attractive environment for dealmaking on the U.S. The total number of U.S. tax policy front, analysts said.

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) CFO Risk Management Compliance 146

CFO Thought Leader

MAY 6, 2025

A Finance Strategic Moment While preparing IBM variance reports, Dilip Upmanyu first realized numbers persuade only when tied to the actions that create them. Internally, interactive sales roleplay, customer360 dashboards, contract review, and automated reconciliations already demonstrate AIs 60percent productivity lift.

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CFO Reconciliations Construction Finance 52

The Charity CFO

MAY 12, 2025

The absolute baseline of a nonprofit accounting team should include: An Accounting Associate or Bookkeeper Responsible for accurate, timely transaction entry, reconciliations, and supporting documentation. Theyre the people who spot errors in a sea of numbers and ensure the books are airtight and audit-ready.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Intuit has announced a new integration between its QuickBooks software and Amazon Business to allow small businesses to automate purchase reconciliation, according to a press release. Small businesses use Amazon Business to purchase a number of goods to enable their business growth.

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Reconciliations Numbers Accounting Sales 98

Simply Treasury

AUGUST 3, 2022

Automated bank connectivity through a single secure channel has become essential to reduce costs, facilitate on-boarding by banks, secure transactions, speed up and automate reconciliations and reduce staff workload. It will be traceable, secure and will allow the retrieval of bank statement information to automate the reconciliation.

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Banking Reconciliations Treasury Securities 147

The Finance Weekly

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Account reconciliation is the matching and validating of balances in the general ledger (GL) to internal and external sources or other independent calculations to accurately close month-ends and year-ends. Defining Account Reconciliation The basic steps involved in reconciliation transactions include the following: 1.

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Reconciliations Accounting General Ledger (GL) Finance 52

PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

The only number currently trending downward is exchange deposits, declining 1.29 Eighty-five percent of the country’s banks, or 55 banks total, have made use of the solution to help switch up the process of interbank reconciliation. She said the Corda process has shortened that down to just one day to complete a reconciliation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

You have invoice aggregation, multiple account numbers with vendors, short payments, disputes and credit memos.". APIs have similarly become valuable tools to automate reconciliation and accounting via interconnectivity between AR, AP and accounting systems. B2B payments are messier than B2C payments," said Chanda.

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B2B Reconciliations Accounts Payable Invoicing 114

PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2020

In an interview with Karen Webster, Simon Barker, CEO of Conferma Pay, explained that the announcement heralds the first time key attributes of virtual commercial cards — including expense controls and seamless data reconciliation — are being tied to tap-and-go payments, with the ease of use that mark contactless consumer payments.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

Accounting, consultancy and technology firm Crowe is rolling out a new solution designed for hospitals to automate daily bank reconciliation processes and manage cash flow, the company said in a recent announcement. Hospitals can often struggle to manually reconcile cash flow coming from multiple sources.

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Cash Management General Ledger Reconciliations Healthcare 73

PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

It was our key priority to launch this feature as quickly as we could, as it was the number one most-requested feature from our customers in Australia,” Jack Zhang, co-founder and chief executive officer at Airwallex, told The Australian.

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Reconciliations Foreign Exchange Currencies Accounting 52

Bramasol

AUGUST 31, 2023

How EBRR is a Game Changer There are a number of innovations and benefits that derive from using EBRR in the SAP Public Cloud. Streamlined Reconciliation - The revenue recognition process is fully integrated into the Universal Journal.

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SAP Accounting Reconciliations General Ledger 96

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The pandemic has exposed glaring points of friction in any number of verticals – including banking, where it’s apparent that legacy systems and processes were not designed to handle real-time anything, and certainly not payments. Is real-time ready for prime time? Eyeing Efficiency . Looking Ahead.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Reconciliation Challenges. Slow reconciliation processes can result in extra costs and headaches, for example, by tying up staff schedules with tasks that could be managed by automation instead, Hagan said. Many firms still have AR systems that require employees to juggle different software platforms and conduct procedures manually.

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Accounts Payable Reconciliations Invoicing Banking 93

PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

It might have a settlement file from one processor come in for its month-to-month reconciliation procedures and then have to go through the process with all of its providers to ensure the numbers match up. Modo aims to provide a solution, turning the complex work of reconciliation into an automated process.

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Reconciliations Finance Retail Numbers 70

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

With the new upgrade, HashCash customers will now have access to real-time document sharing, automation and reconciliation, available instantly through B2B payments, the release stated. HashCash Consultants has integrated its HC Corporate Payment features with the existing infrastructure for B2B payments, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

The card number is automatically generated once the PO is approved, with payment only made for the designated supplier and amount. The Coupa Pay solution also includes automated reconciliation with the initial purchase order, the companies noted in the press release. JPMorgan is the second card issuer to join the Coupa Pay solution.

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Reconciliations B2B Invoicing Finance 75

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Faster payments schemes also number more than 50 and counting. Faster payments schemes also number more than 50 and counting. We're working with a number of providers to facilitate that settlement virtually in real time,” he said.

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B2B Reconciliations Accounting Invoicing 134

PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2019

“The enhancements improve the payment-to-settlement time, increase security and reduce costs for both payers and receivers by further automating and streamlining reconciliation of the growing number of international payments coming from different countries in different currencies,” the company said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Keys can be the user's social security number, mobile phone number, or email address, providing a level of security and identification above the SITRAF rails. He's much more concerned about reconciliation of payments and assuring that people have paid so that he can put the goods [on the shelf] or provide service to the people.”.

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Nonprofit Reconciliations Banking Securities 131

PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2019

. “The beauty of the virtual card is that it’s the only payment modality today that solves the four biggest challenges in [the] payment process: speed, good funds, reconciliation [and] fraud risk,” explained Blair Jeffery, chief operating officer at payments processing company Noventis.

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Reconciliations Accounts Payable B2B Accounting 61

CFO Simplified

DECEMBER 19, 2022

After all, although the matters that I deal with are not strategic, I am in a good position to be advising not only my client, but the staff I work with, on some practical interventions that help assure that the numbers that everyone is depending on are accurate. Is the deposit in transit number correct?

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

The payments and technology giant announced Tuesday (July 9) the rollout of its Virtual Card Receivables Service, a tool to digitize the virtual card payment acceptance and reconciliation process for businesses.

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Cash Flow Forecasting Reconciliations Invoicing B2B 62

The Charity CFO

APRIL 29, 2022

The audit firm will come in to review your final end-of-year numbers and all the documentation they need to complete your audit. That means keeping your paperwork organized, staying current on your reconciliations, tracking restricted funds , and accurately recording all your expense and revenue transactions each month.

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Nonprofit Auditing General Ledger Reconciliations 105

Centage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Excel does not have audit trail capabilities, so it is difficult to prevent fraud as numbers, and other financial data can easily be changed by any user. Once you start sharing your spreadsheet across your organization, you open up your sensitive information — and, as a result, your entire business — to serious security risks.

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Securities Cash Flow Forecasting Budgeting Forecasting 98

PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2020

the newest update to its software, to help companies with faster account reconciliation, artificial intelligence, systems integration and more, a press release says. Trintech , which works in integrated Record to Report software, is releasing Cadency 9.0, According to experts, spending on AP automation is set to jump from around $1.9

Accounting 67

Accounting Reconciliations Auditing Financial Reporting 67

CFO Simplified

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It’s just a bunch of numbers, right? This information is critical for a number of reasons that we’ll explore in this article. Here is probably the largest single asset in your company, and if you’re not making sure that those numbers are correct, you’re missing a very important reconciliation that you need to do.

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General Ledger Accounts Payable CFO Numbers 98

Future CFO

JUNE 24, 2024

Yes, in the sense that there are a lot of analyses that can now be handled by Gen AI and No, because it transforms accountants from number crunchers to strategic advisors.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2020

Open banking also allows developers to aggregate bank account data into a single accounting portal, enabling automated reconciliation of the entire data set rather than doing it piecemeal. Issuing invoices and processing B2B payments can be simplified through open banking.

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B2B Banking Invoicing Reconciliations 111