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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.
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Gregg Early Director of Market Engagement at Moven
An interesting article in Tearsheet discusses a recent CapitalOne study that shows how much concern there is for financial wellness within Gen Z. It’s a significant amount. Nearly 80% wish they were taught basic money skills at school. And 83% say they learn about finance from their families. Let’s put this in perspective. Gen Z are people that ar...
01 November 2021 /retail /markets
Yahya Mohamed Mao Head of Business Development & Marketing at Swiss GRC
About half (53 percent) of financial service providers cited poor communication and project management as the biggest barriers to successful digital implementation. Lack of leadership and leadership vision was the biggest problem for a quarter of participants, especially in lower and middle market organizations (33%). The good news is that, despit...
27 July 2021 /predictions
Abbie Crome Senior Marketing Executive at ieDigital
I read with interest the recent Finextra article referencing Accenture’s survey, revealing that only 10% of all banks’ board directors, as well as 10% of CEOs, have any professional technology experience. Furthermore, the survey shows that one-third of banks still have no tech savvy directors sitting on the board. I was not surprised to read this,...
30 June 2021 /people /retail
Kevin Rubin Chief Financial Officer at Alteryx Inc.
Over the past year, the pandemic required companies to quickly adapt to a new operating paradigm. But even before Covid, finance departments were facing growing challenges driven by ever increasing business and operational complexity. With the vaccine rollout continuing and allowing countries to lift pandemic-related restrictions, the world is sl...
07 June 2021 /people
Olivier Novasque Founder and CEO at Sidetrade
One silver lining to the Covid-19 crisis is that organisations across the globe have prudently shifted their focus to secure cash. More than ever, the pressure is on to mitigate the effects of adverse economic conditions because contingency plans that were in place were simply not cutting it. For businesses to ride out the current economic clima...
23 April 2021 /inclusion
Elliott Limb Chief Customer Officer at Mambu
Over the past decade, digital transformation has worked its way to the top of C-suite agendas. Though while it started out as a global business phenomenon, it quickly lost momentum. Buzzword or not, the rip and replace approach to digital transformation is now being seen for what it really is – strategy for delivering change that adds complexity a...
29 March 2021
Retired Member
Banking has traditionally been an industry slow to change. Our very concept of a bank has, until the last decade or so, remained consistent with the big, high street providers that define how we think of banks and banking. Of course, the advent of digital payments and mobile banking quickly changed all that. But while we’re now used to banks as vir...
22 February 2021 /payments
After a year of facing a global pandemic, an economic downturn and the continuation of typical industry headwinds like new competitors, talent wars, and regulatory pressures, Insurers are more focused than ever on the need for digital transformation in the finance department. But today’s business cases have evolved well beyond the 2 year – or even...
17 February 2021
Luke Hinchliffe Head of Marketing at Arachnys Information Services
Anyone working in a compliance role in financial services will appreciate the critical part that software plays in effective onboarding, due diligence and anti-money laundering investigations. As banks strive towards decreasing customer onboarding times, achieving perpetual KYC and enabling more efficient AML checks, they are realizing the potenti...
16 February 2021 /regulation /crime
Nikunj Gundaniya Product manager at Digipay.guru
Constant cash flow is the most significant aspect of every business. But depositing cheques is always a complicated task for small businesses. It can be painful for the businesses to go to the bank to deposit their cheques. What if you need to deposit your cheques after the banking hours? Here the lockbox payment comes into the picture. Now you ar...
07 January 2021 /payments
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