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Is Crowdfunding helping women break through in technology? A report from VentureBeat shows that women create 65% of Kickstarter projects – yet only make up about 20% of tech founders in general. The ...
In the ultra high-speed world of financial services, a fraction of a second can be a lifetime. Long gone is the outdated view of banks and other financial institutions as dusty old buildings, filled w...
Regulation mandating the recording of all mobile communications leading to a financial trade has had far reaching implications for financial firms across the globe – and not just in the UK and the US ...
Mobility is at the top of everyone’s mind these days, and I have no doubt that your firm is no exception to that. Despite the importance of mobility in today’s always-connected world, many financial s...
Thanks to a combination of external and internal pressures, the intraday monitoring and optimization of cash positions is now de rigeur for banks. As a result, cash managers are becoming increasingly ...
For banks, investing in a centralized reconciliation factory has become a popular way to build a best-practice reconciliation environment. Time after time it's also proven to be a wise and worthy inve...
Invoice fraud is one of those topics that most CFOs are aware of, but one which few ever think they will really be targeted by. You know who your suppliers are, and you have stringent policies in plac...
Ever since Google announced the availability of Host Card Emulation (HCE) in the last version of Android, the discussion in the world of mobile payments has taken a very interesting turn. Banks that ...
A raft of new liquidity regulations are changing the face of cash management. While some may view these regulations as an inescapable duty, compliance with these requirements has the potential to add ...
While the U.S. may be seen as the world's hub for all things retail, a recent report suggests that this title may be a better fit for one of several countries in Latin America - if not the region as a...
The Bacs 3-day payment processing cycle just isn’t fast enough for a lot of businesses these days, with many now relying on Faster Payments to meet their needs. When it was launched in 2008, Faster Pa...
The dust hasn't settled yet even though it's been 34 years since the birth (1981) of electronic payments. CheckFree was the "baby." Peter Kight was the "father." As with other ...