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Finance 2.0

A community for discussing the application of Web 2.0 technologies to financial services.

Debbie Green

Debbie Green VP of Applications at Oracle

Putting humans at the helm of finance innovation

As technologies such as 5G, IoT and AI are rolled out across industries, old business models are being overturned and new ones created, all in the name of progress. Even the most established industries run the risk of being significantly weakened, or even made redundant – so organisations will have to embrace change to survive. Business agility i...

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Debbie Green

Debbie Green VP of Applications at Oracle

How the CFO can sell boardroom success

The value of a business-focused ERP implementation is often underestimated, and more often than not this is due to a lack of understanding of what this investment means for streamlining businesses processes. Typically, this education process falls to the organisation’s CIO – and whilst the CIO does need to take primary responsibility, finance can ...

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Konstantin Rabin

Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik

How Fintechs are disrupting tax reporting services

In discussions around fintechs, we often discuss various financial services but taxation is often left out of the conversation. While the benefits of fintechs that cover the unbanked are unanimously considered a positive development in the financial field, there’s also the side of fintechs that is threatening to disrupt the current tax reporting s...

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Debbie Green

Debbie Green VP of Applications at Oracle

Embedding AI gives CFOs a second pair of eyes

It is widely believed that we only use 10% of our brain, but science has without doubt disproved this fact. However, it is easy to see why we would believe it. We often find ourselves failing to achieve our full potential, whether this comes in the form of lacking productivity at work, the impact of stress or tiredness on our decision-making, or l...

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Debbie Green

Debbie Green VP of Applications at Oracle

2020 predictions: the new era of spending for the CFO

In the last 12 months, CFOs, particularly in the UK, have been forced to count the pennies when it comes to budgeting in an era of political and economic uncertainty. As we move into 2020 we expect, or at least hope, that we will have more clarity. With this comes spending – CFOs will look to spend funds they have been holding back over the previou...

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Debbie Green

Debbie Green VP of Applications at Oracle

Why CFOs should step outside the numbers

The role of Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) has been completely reimagined in the last five to ten years. CFOs now have more responsibility and a wider remit for ensuring the success of the company. According to a recent McKinsey Company report, five functions other than finance now report to most CFOs: risk, regulatory compliance, M&A, IT and...

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Debbie Green

Debbie Green VP of Applications at Oracle

Universities: unlocking innovation through the finance function

Universities are where innovation begins. They produce research that moves us forward scientifically, technologically and socially. Some of our best and brightest reside within their walls. However, while researchers and students on the ground have some of the best facilities and personnel to support them, the same often can’t be said of universit...

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Debbie Green

Debbie Green VP of Applications at Oracle

How AI and machine learning can benefit finance teams

Finance teams are integral and essential to the smooth running of any business. It’s no longer as simple as responsibility over regulatory compliance, financial reporting, payroll, and public interest – but so much more. The role of the finance team is beginning to increase in scope, and this means that finance professionals are beginning to be co...

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Retired Member 

Why Continuing Professional Development is Key For Financial Services

People often see Continuing Professional Development as a way to get more from their employees. But what they often overlook is how important it is to employee retention. One study in particular found that professional development seems to be an issue dear to the heart of millennial workers specifically. Out of all people surveyed, 90% stated tha...

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Competition is good - and that includes competition in money!

Last year at Money 2020 in Amsterdam I attended a super interesting discussion on the future of money with speakers from the Bank of England, The Swiss National Bank and the Bank of Canada. I believe it was the gentleman from The Swiss National bank who volunteered some quite revealing thoughts on how central bankers see the threat of monetary comp...

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