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AI, Cyber Risk and Payments Monetization Put Treasury at the Center of Finance
September 10, 2025

Treasury is quickly becoming the nerve center of finance with decisions that influence not just liquidity, but enterprise risk appetite, growth strategy, and digital transformation. Behind this shift are the three foundational pillars of AI, cyber defense and payments optimization. The momentum behind each represents...

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Why CFO Now Stands for ‘Chief Forecasting Officer’
July 11, 2025

For decades, the title of chief financial officer evoked an image of someone buried in spreadsheets and focused on quarterly closes, regulatory compliance and carefully hedged projections. Today, however, trade volatility has gone from exception to norm, and traditional Excel-based forecasting no longer suffices. “If...

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B2B Procurement as a Strategic Lever Is Healthcare CFO’s New Mandate
July 09, 2025

The high-stakes world of healthcare procurement is also a high-cost one. In just the past decade, manual processes, opaque supplier relationships and spreadsheet-based inventory tracking have gone from harmless inefficiencies across the healthcare procurement function to operational cost centers hamstringing strategic sourcing.  From artificial intelligence...

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The M&A Files: How CFOs Can Architect Post-Merger Supplier Synergy
June 04, 2025

For CFOs, the work never stops. And when it comes to mergers and acquisitions, that can often be when the work picks up. After all, the less publicized but most mission-critical facet of many deals is the post-merger integration (PMI) of freshly inherited vendor and...

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Over Half of CFOs Turn to Third-Party Solutions Amid Economic Uncertainty
May 23, 2025

Facing persistent economic headwinds and business challenges, CFOs are abandoning traditional strategies in favor of technological adoption and external partnerships to navigate market uncertainty and pursue growth. According to recent findings by PYMNTS Intelligence, which surveyed CFOs from middle-market companies with annual revenues between $100...

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CFOs Move From Ledgers to Leaders as Back Offices Become Command Centers
May 07, 2025

First comes disruption, then comes transformation. That’s something enterprise CFOs and treasurers are finding out in real time. At the heart of this transformation is real-time data’s impact across the back office. Traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, often siloed and batch-oriented, are giving way...

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80% of Tech Treasurers Believe Closer Ties With Finance Would Benefit Firms
April 24, 2025

Treasurers want to be part of the technology conversation. A recent report from PYMNTS Intelligence, in collaboration with Citi, reveals a disconnect between technology treasurers and their peers in other departments, leading to reduced influence in decision-making processes and potentially hampering financial performance in the...

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Trump’s Global Tariffs Position CFOs as New Supply Chain Architects
April 09, 2025

Less than 24 hours after announcing sweeping tariffs, President Trump on Wednesday (April 9) gave a 90-day reprieve to most countries on the “retaliatory” tariffs that were supposed to go into effect. Only tariffs on Chinese goods remained in place after China responded with a reciprocal...

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Financial Visibility Helps CFOs Address Tariff Uncertainty
April 01, 2025

Uncertainty in financial markets is not new, but the scope and speed of today’s disruptions are unprecedented. As geopolitical tensions, fluctuating tariffs and economic unpredictability continue to ramp up, today’s chief financial officers (CFOs) find themselves at the forefront of navigating a role, and a...