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794Study: GPS Fail Would Cost Economy $1B A Day
In a study of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, researchers found that loss of the service would have an impact of $1...
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4.6KAll The World’s A Stage For (Prudent) FX Risk Management
Risk has rewards in all parts of life, but especially in business, where shrewd risk-taking and planning accrues to the bottom line....
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3.7KChinese Finance Head: FinTech Boom ‘A Very Big Risk’
President of Chinese financial investment platform Phoenix Finance believes the nation’s FinTech companies pose “a very big risk.” Vince Zhang spoke at...
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7.9KWePay On The Art Of Payments Risk Management
Understanding risk, particularly its sources and how to most effectively manage it, is one of the most fundamentally important topics in payments...
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5.5KWhy Farmers Now Care About Hedging Currency Risk
Farming has always been about risk. Bad weather, infestation, speculation: Such factors can not only mean survival or failure for farmers, but...
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1.6KLessons From Brexit: FX Risk and Managing Funds Overseas
If there is a lesson for American businesses to learn from Brexit, it’s this: if a business has operations overseas, it needs...
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NEW REPORT: How Businesses can Hedge Against FX Risk
A U.S. company holding money in euros is at constant risk of losing money: If the FX rate between the euros and...
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5.8KNetflix’s Failure With Hedging Provides Lessons For Digital Players
What’s good for the U.S. dollar was not good for Netflix in the second quarter, and the company’s experience (or lack thereof)...
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5.8KHow Dallas Cowboys’ Lewis Neal Wants Companies To Tackle Data Security
From blocking and tackling on the gridiron to blocking and tackling Internal threats and hackers – and quantum computers? HyperSpace board member...
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4.8KFI/FinTech Partnerships: Eyeing Risk To Reap Rewards
It’s no secret that banks and FinTechs are collaborating at a rate faster than ever before. Where once traditional finance companies viewed...
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4.8KCambridge Global: Trimming Away The Hedging Myths
Complex, big, risky, exotic. Hedging FX exposure need not be any of those things, according to Cambridge Global Payments COO Mark Frey....
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6.8KThe Use Case For Network Tokens
When it comes to personally identifiable information (PII), the words of Gandalf are a good rule for individuals to live by: “Keep...
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3.0KTurning Currency Volatility Into A Global FX Strategy
Supply chains are globalizing even as rising protectionism threatens to place new challenges and barriers on those trade partnerships. Exposure to the...
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6.7KCrowe: Risk Management With RegTech As Strategy
Can RegTech create strategic advantage? Can it allow firms to (gulp!) take on more risk? Marry tech and talent, says Crowe Horwath...
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5.8KCrowe Horwath: ‘Risk Sandboxes’ Bolster Innovation While Managing Compliance
Innovation implies a break from the conventional ways of operating a business. Ultimately, innovation is oxygen for companies in almost any vertical,...
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4.4KTrade Credit’s $2.5 Trillion Ticking Time Bomb
There is hardly a more difficult conversation to be had, CreditRiskMonitor CEO Jerry Flum told Karen Webster in a recent conversation, than the one the finance guys...
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4.4KNACHA Adds 9K Third-Party Senders, Expands ACH Payments
NACHA, the electronic payments association, announced that banks and credit unions have registered 9,403 third-party senders as of the March 1, 2018...
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4.6KHow The ‘Debbie Test’ Can Flag Sketchy Merchants
“Does this merchant pass the Debbie Test?” That’s the first thing Donald Kasdon, chief executive officer of credit card processing and payment solutions provider T1 Payments,...
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8.5KIn Equifax’s Wake, Outrunning The Breach Bear
What have we learned from the Equifax hack? Maybe nothing? Maybe everything? Maybe something in between? The stats are alarming, of course. Equifax, which...
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5.8KKeeping Third Party Risk First On The Cyber (Risk) List
As companies expand and interact with an ever-widening web of vendors, third-party risk deepens as data is shared and, potentially, exposed. In...
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6.9KClosing The Communication Gap In Enterprise Fraud Risk
Investing money into detecting, mitigating and preventing fraud has become just another part of doing business. But rather than the fraud department...
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5.1KThe Data Differentiator In Compliance
The compliance market is becoming increasingly crowded and competitive as both traditional powerhouses and new entrants race to deliver on solutions that...
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4.4KOutsideIQ Partners With SAP Ariba For Risk and Regulatory Compliance
With an ever-growing amount of data created on a daily basis, the cost of upkeep on risk and regulatory compliance likely isn’t the...
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4.4KTaking Risk Management To The Market(places)
Crowdfunding and other popular platforms bring a new level of risk to micro-payments. WePay’s John Canfield, Vice President of Risk Management, tells...
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1.2KWhat’s Behind The Slump In Factory-Made Sales?
Once upon a time, the factory represented a kind of romantically mechanized ideal of the American spirit to pull oneself up by...
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2.2KChapter 11 Watch: Retailers Head Back To School, Jewelry Loses Its Shine
The dog days of summer are finally upon the retail world, and if department stores didn’t take the spring and early summer to...
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2.7KChapter 11 Watch: Hastings Can’t Find A Date, Kmart Finds The Rumor Mill
John Lennon and Paul McCartney sang that they got by with a little help from their friends, and when retailers are teetering...
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4.2KHow The Big Banks Are Bracing For More Loan Losses
The consumer loan used to be a safe bet for the big banks, until the financial quicksand of 2008 tore the rug...
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3.5KChapter 11 Watch: Closing Time For Sports Authority, Layoffs For Everyone Else
Among all the stresses and tough decisions that filing for Chapter 11 brings onto already struggling retailers, there are a few bright...
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3.5KIMF Chief Warns Of Potential Financial System Disruptions
One bank’s risk control is another bank’s — and financial ecosystem’s — financial Armageddon. Reuters reported on Monday (July 18) that large banks seeking...
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5.3KChapter 11 Watch: Hockey Chain Put On Ice, California Livin’ Goes Bust In Hong Kong
Brick-and-mortar retail will forever remember the day that Nintendo released Pokémon GO, a mobile game that has caused millions of millennials to...
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8.1KRetail’s Reverse Supply Chain Problem
It took a while for the average retailer to reach a level of competency dealing with online orders. That’s not to belittle...
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3.1KChapter 11 Watch: Bankruptcies Reach Hyperspeed, Staples Mulls Post-Brexit Plans
Remember Martin Shkreli? Probably not. Remember the Pharma Bro? Ah, of course. While Shkreli still sits free on bail awaiting what looks...
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4.3KChapter 11 Watch: Forever 21 Dumped By Supplier, Brexit Shakes Things Up
It was an odd week for retail bankruptcies, if only because news of the Brexit decision to pull out of the European Union...
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4.9KChapter 11 Watch: Tough Times For Uniqlo, PacSun Gets Lucky
Retail’s constant chase for growth means that some or even most will never reach their goals. And the circle of merchant life...
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4.3KChapter 11 Watch: Hastings Goes Dark, Ralph Lauren Unpops B&M Collar
The dog days of summer are almost upon the retail world, and if a warm winter wasn’t enough to suppress sales at...
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3.5KChapter 11 Watch: BHS Goes Out Of Style, Ralph Lauren Shutters Stores
If the wisdom of a retail age before the internet is to be believed, summer is the season when consumers can’t help...
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4.4KWhy Aéropostale Flamed Out
Bob Dylan didn’t have the retail sector in mind when he penned “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” but nonetheless, Aéropostale’s fall from...
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2.8KChapter 11 Watch: Austin Reed Bids Farewell, Staples Plots A New Course
Retailers are entering that time of the year where high temperatures settle over just about every part of the continental U.S., so...
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3.1KChapter 11 Watch: Sports Authority Sends Shockwaves, Gap Pulls Back
When a retailer goes under, it’s usually a problem for that company and its investors alone. A mom and pop shop putting...
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9.3KUnderwriting Automation Hits The Road
If you don’t plan your trip before hitting the road, you might get lost. The same applies to risk teams in automating...
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4.8KChapter 11 Watch: Sports Authority Sells, Layoffs Hamstring MCX
When it comes to retail bankruptcies, do you want the good news or the bad news first? The good news: In a marked...
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7.3KSo Far, 2016 Is A Boom Year For Retail Bankruptcies
This time last year, U.S. companies were going bankrupt at a rate nobody had seen in half a decade. More than 26,000 companies...
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5.5KCombating Risk By Changing With It
The role of chief risk officer is an ever-evolving one and calls for a comprehensive understanding of the threats facing a business,...
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6.9KBoston Fed Takes On Cyber Risks, FinTech Competition
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren delivered a speech yesterday (April 4) at the bank’s 2016 Cybersecurity Conference highlighting the...
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Can Real-Time Data Streamline Customer Acquisitions?
Bringing (good) customers on board can be a cumbersome process — even when it’s done right, there’s always the risk of letting...
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Global Regulators Push Banks To Boost Cyber Risk Coverage
Banks may face tougher guidelines when it comes to how much they are required to spend to cover the risks that cyberattacks,...
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IdentityMind Launches Platform To Fight CNP Fraud
IdentityMind Global, an on-demand provider of identity-based payments, risk management, fraud prevention and anti-money laundering services, announced Thursday (March 3) the launch...
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Early Warning Automates Home Loan Asset Verification
Early Warning, a fraud prevention, payments and risk management company, announced Tuesday (Feb. 16) its new effort to automate asset verification for...
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5.1KWalmart Shuttering More Bricks To Focus On Clicks
Few retailers, if any, are completely immune from the roller coaster-like action that the retail industry throws at every company, but there...