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Financial Transformation

The pace of evolution for many corporate finance and accounting functions is accelerating. The mandate of the CFO is expanding and the challenges they face accumulating. This blog is an exploration of these topics.

Jussi Karjalainen

Jussi Karjalainen CEO at Valtatech

Build an approvable business case for automating your procurement and source to pay processes Part 1

Procurement teams within businesses of all sizes are under pressure to drive, and then demonstrate measurable value and savings. Many are choosing to automate and optimise part of or all their finance and procurement operations as part of that process. However, like any other investment, procurement pros need to justify the investment to their CFO...

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Tatsiana Kuchminskaya

Tatsiana Kuchminskaya Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Andersen

Why Do You Need a Digital Wallet?

The new digital reality is rapidly and irrevocably changing our lives. The impact of digital technology on civilization can only be compared with the appearance of fire when it became clear from the first spark that the world would never be the same. A similar thing has happened again when people can study, work, relax, shop and manage their finan...

/payments /markets

Svetlio Todorov

Svetlio Todorov Managing Director at emerchantpay

The importance of payment optimisation: Why every merchant needs a trusted payment partner

Merchants and retailers rely on payment service providers to facilitate their payments journey. While much is being said about the need to work with payment partners, it is important for merchants to understand what the benefits are and what they should be looking for in a payment service provider (PSP). At this time of continuing economic uncerta...

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Nick Shah

Nick Shah Head of CFO Business Architecture at Aptitude Software

With the emergence of dynamic and on-demand reporting, are the standard Finance reports dead?

A favourite movie line of mine is, “I want that report on my desk tomorrow morning!” I always felt it was a phrase stolen from the Finance office at the end of the 20th century! In a typical Finance function, this reporting request would entail a team of financial professionals (quite possibly all qualified accountants) extracting data from Finance...

/retail /wholesale

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Innovation for Customer Engagement Doesn’t Have to Mean Reinventing the Wheel

Are you doing everything possible to transform your business digitally? Are you striving to innovate in order to achieve maximum agility? To achieve these ends, are you invested in every kind of next-generation, open-source technology platform, and divested of all elements with a whiff of legacy? If you are a banking institution battling to make h...

/cloud /devops

Tatsiana Kuchminskaya

Tatsiana Kuchminskaya Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Andersen

Ten FinTech Trends to Follow in 2022

The pandemic provoked a crisis in many industries, including FinTech. Due to quarantine measures, banks, credit institutions, and insurance companies had to close their branches temporarily. Despite the obstacles, the new realities have become an incentive for the financial industry development, financial software development, and digital services...

/startups /markets

Dmitry Dolgorukov

Dmitry Dolgorukov CEO at GiniMachine

Key Learnings For Financial Brands To Use In 2022

In the past couple of years, we’ve observed significant industry changes unlike ever before. 2020 was a year of reactive action to a global pandemic as companies and businesses scrambled to adjust to what was known as the ‘new normal.’ 2021 marked the acceleration of digital transformation, with over 97% of executives stating it increased the velo...

/covid-19 /predictions

Bhavesh Vaghela

Bhavesh Vaghela SVP B2B Product and Innovation at Collinson

2022 Predictions Intelligent systems, remote relationships and Experience as a service

It’s February, and a year and a month has passed since my last predictions blog, and what a year we have had. Like with everything in life, things have taken longer than expected to finish. This is very true with the pandemic and the aftermath it is leaving behind. I concluded my last predictions with a quote from my hero David Attenborough “Our...

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Christophe Kasolowsky

Christophe Kasolowsky Partner at Baringa Partners

Is Robotics just a sticking plaster for the Finance function?

RPA in Finance Robotic Process Automation (RPA) can be traced to the early 2000s, but the technology entered mainstream Finance transformation solutions around 2015. To put this into context, a KPMG paper published in 2015 cited research that found only 12% of financial services firms had gone live with RPA solutions, 24% of firms were only talkin...

/retail /wholesale

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Financial Crime Regulatory Complexity Due to Rocket in 2022

2021 has been a year of two halves – the first we were all dealing with life under lockdown. And the second half, supercharged with the vaccine programme, has seen life trying to get back to normal. But whatever the conditions, financial criminals have carried on regardless, capitalising on pandemic conditions and our increasing reliance on techno...

/regulation /crime

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