Risk Management

Risk Management
What Treasurers Are Doing Now That Liquidity Is King
June 28, 2023

To manage a balance sheet is to protect the heart of any company. Doing so effectively is never more critical than when the economic environment is in flux. The essential strategic importance of a strong treasury operation stays the same, even throughout the tumult. The...

Risk Management
Business Spend Management Goes Real Time as CFOs Conserve Cash
May 11, 2023

PYMNTS asked business leaders for their take on how to plan for the rest of 2023 and what they are telling their teams to focus on. Mesh Payments CFO Anna King says CFOs don’t have the luxury of assuming the current company spend is the best...

Risk Management
Modern Treasury CEO: Companies Have a New Appreciation for Treasury Services Post SVB Collapse
April 14, 2023

Macroeconomic dislocations have highlighted the need for organizations to future-proof their businesses against uncertainty. Times of turmoil generally provide firms with a key opportunity to focus, or refocus, on the fundamentals. Dimitri Dadiomov, co-founder and CEO at money movement application programming interface (API) Modern Treasury,...

Risk Management
Pinwheel Now Supplies Income and Employment Data Through Visa Program
March 29, 2023

Pinwheel has partnered with Visa to provide consumer-permissioned income and employment data to businesses. By joining the Visa Fintech Connect Program, Pinwheel can provide this data to merchants, financial institutions and FinTech companies more easily and with additional security and compliance, the companies said in a Wednesday (March 29) press...

Risk Management
Old-Fashioned Audits Play New Role in Fight Against Business Payments Fraud
December 21, 2022

Fighting B2B payments fraud starts with acknowledging that financial risk management starts from within. A continuous audit and data validation has been shown to be a key ingredient in the fight against business payments fraud, as nsKnox Chief Operating Officer Nithai Barzam told PYMNTS in...

Risk Management
FinTech Lender Uses Novel Risk Model to Challenge Aggregator Rollups
September 21, 2022

Some people build businesses, others buy them. And some people build companies, sell them and buy other firms. But regardless of the strategy, there’s a simple commonality and necessity underpinning it all: capital. It’s the lifeblood that gets new business off the ground, that sustains...

Risk Management
NEW REPORT: Supporting Resilient Growth While Navigating Black Swan Events
August 04, 2022

Managing global risk has become more complicated than ever. Risk managers must not only confront issues of maintaining global regulatory compliance concerning anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) standards but also contend with global events that cause marketplace uncertainty and often threaten to...

Risk Management
Risk Managers Find Themselves Wearing Multiple Hats as New Threats Mount
August 04, 2022

“Each day looks wildly different.” Tom Frantz, risk manager at Airbase, told PYMNTS that in an uncertain macro environment, as companies move increasingly online and cybercriminals become increasingly wily, the risk manager must wear a variety of different hats. “You’ve got to get your hands...

Risk Management
CPG Supplier Profit Margins Get Much-Needed Boost After Automating Deductions
June 24, 2022

Deductions occur when buyers fail to pay manufacturers the full price for their products as listed on their invoices, and they may occur for several reasons. Buyers could receive damaged or defective products, for example, or they may have received more inventory than they purchased....