PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

That said, optimism without a firm plan in place is just another form of hot air. The conversation also underscored the growing important of currency hedging, foreign exchange and risk management for businesses of all types. That’s why risk management is becoming more important to more types of companies.

Foreign Exchange 62

Foreign Exchange Currencies Risk Management Cash Management 62

PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2017

OA: As president of Western Union Global Money Transfer, I oversee our global person-to-person money transfer via our combined digital and retail walk-in agent network that connects more than 200 countries and territories. PYMNTS: What does a day in your life look like? I try to keep this to a minimum.

Compliance 76

Compliance Risk Management Prioritization Retail 76

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2018

It turns out that, for online retail last year, the “fraudliest day” was Dec. It’s worth noting whether fraud is rising as transactions are on the upswing, and whether they need to allocate resources to fraud and risk management during specific times of the year. as Huang put it.

Risk Management 63

Risk Management Accounting Retail Planning 63

PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2018

There is no evidence that any data involved creating fictitious accounts for retail consumers, as was the case in the scandal from about two years ago. This new Wells Fargo controversy comes after the bank hired Amanda Norton, a former JPMorgan Chase executive, as its new chief risk officer, a job she reportedly starts this summer.

Banking 58

Banking Currencies Risk Management Accounting 58

CFO Talks

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The Authority is a relatively small entity, it regulates the retail and micro-manufacturing of liquor in the Western Cape. So my responsibility there is to lead the whole finance function, which involves strategic leadership, financial management, supply chain and risk management.

CFO 98

CFO Auditing Leadership Budgeting 98

PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

With roughly 17 million active users each month and 30,000 diverse online retailers, Honey has delivered some $1 billion in savings to shoppers in the past year. Citigroup Names New Retail Banking Leader. David Chubak will head all retail sectors — branches, mortgages, wealth, risk management and small business, according to a memo.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare B2B Startups Risk Management 52

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2018

NGP Capital led a $15 million Series C funding round for Celect , a company that deploys predictive analytics within its inventory management and optimization solution for retail customers. Access Fintech also plans to focus on global account coverage and accelerate adoption of its solution among other financial institutions.

B2B 51

B2B Startups Treasury Financial Data 51

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

India’s FinBox landed an undisclosed amount of pre-Series A funding, reports in Inc42 said this week, with investors at Arali Ventures leading the investment in the credit risk management technology startup. FinBox plans to use the investment on product research and development. Australia’s ANZ Bank led a $1.56

B2B 51

B2B eCommerce Startups Foreign Exchange 51

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

However, Wingert said the fact remains that many financial institutions, merchant acquirers and online stores are missing important risk signals by overlooking a proven approach to fraud and risk management. The pandemic belies assumptions of readiness in a way that’s similar to untested business continuity plans,” he said.

Compliance 108

Compliance Prioritization Securities Banking 108

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The company targets small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with its cloud-based business management solutions, including enterprise resource planning (ERP), inventory management and customer relationship management (CRM) tools. Cybersecurity risk management enterprise CloudSEK announced a $1.97

Startups 62

Startups B2B B2C Investments 62

PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2018

There is no evidence that any data involved creating fictitious accounts for retail consumers, as was the case in the scandal from about two years ago. This new Wells Fargo controversy comes after the bank hired Amanda Norton, a former JPMorgan Chase executive, as its new chief risk officer, a job she reportedly starts this summer.

Banking 40

Banking Currencies Risk Management Accounting 40

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2016

billion by 2020, companies — particularly eCommerce retailers — are considering mobile and online innovations in payments and IoT security technology to help thwart cyberattacks. According to data from Kount, a fraud and risk management solutions provider, merchants bleed $2.27 With fraud expected to hit $7.2 Striking a balance.

Securities 76

Securities Retail eCommerce Technology 76

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. The CFO fosters engagement by involving key team members in the planning process, encouraging feedback, and addressing concerns.

CFO 52

CFO Communication Finance Budgeting 52

PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

With the pay-per-session pricing plan, any user can have read-only access to the data-driven dashboards of QuickSight and only pay when they access the dashboards. Pay-per-session pricing for QuickSight dashboards start at $0.30 per session, up to a maximum of $5 per user per month, Amazon said in the press release.

Risk Management 47

Risk Management Business Analytics Planning Technology 47

PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2020

CEO Nick Molnar said in a statement that, “Afterpay and Google Pay give shoppers the ability to choose either physical or online shopping while still being able to budget their own money and avoid expensive loans, interest and fees — which has shown to attract new customers and drive more sales conversion for our retail partners.”.

Sales 52

Sales Risk Management Budgeting Leverage 52

PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

The San Francisco-based bank had a total of 5,751 retail branches by the end of the second quarter, citing 114 branch consolidations during the first half. Wells Fargo also announced plans to sell 52 branches in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and parts of Wisconsin to Flagstar Bancorp.

Foreign Exchange 40

Foreign Exchange Banking Risk Management Accounting 40

Cube Software

MAY 11, 2023

If you want to make financial planning decisions based on your business’s historical performance, then the percentage-of-sales method is your new best friend. It’s also useful for risk management as it helps anticipate any financial challenges on the horizon, giving companies enough time to change course or correct any errors.

Sales 52

Sales Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Forecasting Accounts Payable 52

PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2018

Macy’s is, of course, just the latest retailer in a long string to be hit with such a breach. In April, retailer Hudson’s Bay disclosed that customers at Saks and Lord & Taylor stores in North America have had their payment cards compromised. PayPal Has Only Just Begun To Buy. So what did we learn this week?

Banking 40

Banking Construction Retail Education 40

PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2017

You arrive, you see the [contactless] logo you recognize — in the same way you would see the logo at a retailer or a point of sale — and you tap it and you get access to … the journey, and you tap out again,” he said. People want multifunctional, geographically broad journey-planning tools at their disposal, he said.

Transportation 46

Transportation Risk Management Planning Startups 46

PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2016

The dog days of summer are almost upon the retail world, and if a warm winter wasn’t enough to suppress sales at some of the most established brands in the industry, the next few months could have a real impact on the look of the overall landscape. Can an online retailer be affected by brick-and-mortar trends? Bankruptcies.

Entertainment 40

Entertainment Retail Sales Planning 40

Future CFO

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Most were implementing their 2020 business plans which were carefully crafted in 2019 with full assumptions and what-ifs & whatnots. Matthew Wells: Adjusting to the “new norm” of assessing credit risk, management information may not be too helpful in judging how a company has worked through COVID-19.

Marketing 52

Marketing Profit and Loss Finance Credit Risk 52

PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2016

Retail’s constant chase for growth means that some or even most will never reach their goals. Normally, the week’s headlines are filled with merchants stuck in a death spiral of slow sales and lackluster supply chain management. Few are inevitably spared the fate in the long run.

Restructuring 40

Restructuring Retail Sales Accounting 40

Finvisage

JANUARY 2, 2020

Today corporates all around the world extensively engage themselves in Financial Risk Management processes to mitigate their exposure to adverse consequences resulting from threats and uncertainties; TCI is one such process. TCI claims rose by 40% in 2018 compared to 2017 figures most notably in Construction and Retail sectors.

Construction 52

Construction Manufacturing Economics Profit and Loss 52

PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2016

Retailers are entering that time of the year where high temperatures settle over just about every part of the continental U.S., brands like apparel retailer Austin Reed, though, the weight of all that financial baggage is too much to crawl out from under. For some U.K. Store Closures.

Retail 40

Retail Leadership Sales Planning 40

PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2016

When a retailer goes under, it’s usually a problem for that company and its investors alone. You wouldn’t guess it from the gloomy picture that the retail headlines paint, but there were no major bankruptcies over the past week. A sudden influx of cheap products on the market has brought down retailers before.

Profit and Loss 40

Profit and Loss Restructuring Retail Sales 40

PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2016

John Lennon and Paul McCartney sang that they got by with a little help from their friends, and when retailers are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, the backing of a financially sound ally can mean the difference between restructuring and liquidation. Or so the story goes in this week’s Chapter 11 Watch. Bankruptcies.

Entertainment 40

Entertainment Restructuring Construction Retail 40

PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2018

Small retailers, manufacturers and distributors — they have, frankly, struggled over the last 10 years as the economy has been driven more by the largest businesses,” Kelly King, CEO of BB&T said in a Jan. said it plans to invest roughly 25 percent of the savings back into the business. 19 interview with Bloomberg Television.

Forecasting 40

Forecasting Banking Construction Economics 40

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Elizabeth Burton : I think it’s because I went into risk management straight out school on the risk side of fund to funds and, and various other industries. So it’s a problem that institutions offer often suffer from that retail investors do not like you and me, we probably don’t have this bucketing issue.

Investments 57

Investments Math Risk Management Benchmarking 57

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2018

When most players go wrong trying to build to scale, it isn’t that they get their five-year plan wrong. That’s obviously just not a very good financial plan — and one we think we can improve on.”. Lessons like … #1: Anything can b e done — one step at a time. Nothing gets done all at once.

Math 60

Math Startups Risk Management Compliance 60

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We discussed all these things as well as why there has never been a better time to be a retail investor than right now, right here in this era. Tell us a little about your plans coming out of college. So there’s the, “Hey, I’ll work with you and we’ll develop goals and a plan how to get there.” RAMPULLA: Yeah.

Investments 111

Investments Profit and Loss Education Advertising 111

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

“I have objected to the manner in which a number of business decisions have been presented to the Board of Directors by management, without sufficient time for the Board to examine complex documents, to review significant transactions or to discuss how the proposed actions fit into the company’s strategic plan,” Schramm said in a letter.

Sales 40

Sales Forecasting CFO Banking 40

The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 13, 2021

For example, a retailer might discover that, despite plans to build another location, many of its consumers choose to never shop in a store again. To alleviate this concern, finance teams should employ scenario modeling and financial planning tools to compare the immediate expense of the move to the long-term income potential.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 52

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Economics Risk Management Reconciliations 52

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 9, 2024

It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. And so my plan was actually to quit and not do anything and figure out what my next step was. Matt Levine : 00:16:47 I was struck by like the ability of retail investors collectively to move stock prices, right?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 52

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Finance Math Banking 52

Future CFO

JANUARY 10, 2024

Meanwhile, Lee does not expect the retail and electronics sector to play a huge role in terms of export opportunities in 2024. Electronic vehicles are expected to be a big thing in the Chinese exporting scene, with transactions with India, Europe, and America tipped to grow a little bit.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Concentration Economics Risk Management 52

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Reports in VentureBeat said the company plans to use the investment to further develop a range of products designed to manage and boost visibility of procurement spend, improve supplier management, minimize purchase order volume via bundling features and more. Starling Bank. challenger bank Starling Bank has announced $38.7

B2B 40

B2B Invoicing Startups B2C 40

Finvisage

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

AJ : Gamestop is a ‘physical’ retailer in America. It had already put in place a reboot plan. Secondly it was planning to invest in reinventing itself as a premier gaming hub within the thriving gaming industry which is valued at $150 bn. It sells games, consoles and other electronics in American malls.

Profit and Loss 52

Profit and Loss Retail Securities Leverage 52

PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2018

The Switzerland-based software company revealed it secured the contract with Telia, which will now be able to offer lending and leasing products to retail and corporate customers of its financial unit. Financial details of their agreement were not reported.

Banking 43

Banking Risk Management Leverage Technology 43