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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.
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 f...
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-...
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 t...
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 ...
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 ve...
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 p...
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. B...
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 ...
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 v...
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 experie...
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 bu...
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...