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risk mitigation
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3.5KB2B PaymentsThe FinTech Friction (And Opportunity) In Global Trade
Although business lending requires the aggregation of data from a multitude of sources, there is typically only one financial institution managing the...
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2.4KB2B PaymentsSupply Chain Tech Supports Cannabis Cos’ Fight For Legitimacy
One of the biggest arguments in favor of federal legalization of marijuana is the opportunity for regulation to pull an industry off...
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2.1KB2B PaymentsTop Conglomerates Enter A New Era Of Supply Chain Disruption
Supply chain volatility is a difficult nut to crack, due to a host of risks that can be (or at least appear...
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2.0KB2B PaymentsCEOs Ramp Up Risk Mitigation As Trade War Threat Grows
As the trade war between the U.S. and China could escalate, CEOs are trying to figure out how they will mitigate the...
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3.3KB2B PaymentsTrade Disputes Make Long-Lasting Mark On Global Supply Chains
While the U.S. and China continue the tedious process of smoothing out trade tensions, possible new trade disputes are emerging between the...
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3.7KB2B PaymentsCFOs’ Risk Concerns Mushroom, But Cyberthreats Not In Focus
The Association of Financial Professionals released new data this week that revealed the threat of payments fraud continues to climb, particularly for...
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5.3KB2B PaymentsThe Convergence Of Trade Finance And Trade Credit Insurance
While use of trade finance continues to climb, the International Chamber of Commerce‘s Banking Commission has warned the financial services market that...
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6.1KB2B PaymentsZurich Insurance Partnership Tackles Supply Chain Risk
Insurance firm Zurich is introducing a new supply chain risk management service in conjunction with riskmethods, reports in Global Banking and Finance...
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7.9KB2B PaymentsMastercard Cybersecurity Toolkit Sheds Light On SMB Education Gap
Cybersecurity experts are urging small business (SMB) owners to not ignore the risks they face from cyberattacks. As SMBs become larger targets...
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3.7KB2B PaymentsBig Bankruptcies Wake SMBs Up To AR Insurance
When Sears announced its bankruptcy as 2018 came to a close, the headlines focused on the dramatic climb and fall of a...
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5.8KB2B PaymentsCash Flow A Tough Lesson To Learn For SMBs
Small businesses (SMBs) are often called the lifeblood of the economy. As it were, cash flow is the lifeblood of the small...
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5.7KB2B PaymentsHow Government Procurement Can Foster Private Sector Cybersecurity
Government procurement can bolster the strength of local small businesses (SMBs), and provide an example for technology adoption in areas such as...
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5.9KB2B PaymentsCompliance Execs Forge Closer Ties With Corporate Buyers
With third-party due diligence and supply chain security as increasingly critical components of organizations’ procurement operations, compliance executives are finding important positions...
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4.8KB2B PaymentsThe Financial Opportunity In Supply Chains’ Rising FX Risks
Foreign exchange (FX) volatility can be detrimental to businesses with heavy reliance on cross-border operations. Trade tensions between the U.S. and China,...
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7.2KB2B PaymentsThe Security Threat Of Bank-FinTech Collaboration
When the data of 15 million T-Mobile customers was stolen in 2015, the mobile firm’s CEO immediately went into damage control mode....
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4.9KB2B PaymentsBanks Prep For Brexit-Induced Corporate Loan Defaults
U.K. banks are looking to prepare business clients ahead of Brexit in anticipation for tightened access to financing, Reuters reported on Tuesday...
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2.8KB2B PaymentsAktis Platform Boosts Banks’ Corporate Governance Transparency
Data intelligence firm Aktis is rolling out a cloud-based platform for banks to benchmark and analyze their market positions compared to industry...
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5.7KB2B PaymentsLand Gorilla On Pulling Lenders Into The Fold Of Construction Payments Friction
Construction FinTech has evolved to target an array of financial friction points, with delayed payments, a mountain of paperwork and a crowded...
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3.3KB2B PaymentsSMBs Unaware Of FX Management Tools, Volopa Says
A company no longer has to be a massive, multinational conglomerate to be exposed to foreign exchange fluctuation risks. Small businesses are...
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2.8KB2B PaymentsFlockgen Eyes The Human Connection In B2B Relationships
“Know your customer” and “know your supplier” are critical components of B2B partnerships and expanding supply chains. Technology has made it easier...
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5.1KB2B PaymentsTrade Ledger Launches In Europe To Take Advantage Of Open Banking
Australia-based Trade Ledger is launching its open banking and lending platform for corporates in Europe, the company announced Tuesday (July 3). Trade...
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3.2KRisk ManagementTurning 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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4.3KB2B PaymentsCorporate Treasurers On The Lookout For FinTech, PSD2 And Brexit
Corporate treasurers gathered for the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) annual conference last week, and there, treasury professionals made clear where their...
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5.3KB2B PaymentsOANDA API Opens Real-Time FX Tech To Third-Party Apps
Foreign exchange solutions company OANDA is enhancing its application programming interface (API) that opens up its foreign exchange (FX) technology to third-party...
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5.7KB2B PaymentsWhy Banks Need FinTech To Address Their Own Complicated Treasuries
Banks are finding it more difficult than ever to ignore potential FinTech partnerships that could better serve their corporate customers. When it...
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4.7KB2B PaymentsTreasurers Failing To Use Tech To Combat FX Risk, Deloitte Finds
In its biennial exploration of the evolving role of corporate treasurers, Deloitte is keeping tabs on how treasurers are embracing technology and...
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3.5KB2B PaymentsCubeLogic Embraces Trade Credit Insurance
Business intelligence company CubeLogic has announced its support for Trade Credit Insurance as part of an overall risk mitigation strategy. The company...
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5.4KB2B PaymentsTreasurers Trust Big Data For Real-Time Risk Assessment
Risk management is complex territory for many businesses, especially those with complex partnerships, vast supply chains and global footprints. But Big Data lands...
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5.3KB2B PaymentsHow Third-Party Partners Became So Risky
This week, enterprise security startup CyberGRX announced a new funding round, with investors at Bessemer Venture Partners leading the way for $20...
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5.1KB2B PaymentsLondon (Barely) Retains Crown As Top Financial Hub
London may be on the cusp of falling down from its post as top financial center of the planet, finds a new...
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6.7KB2B PaymentsWith Third-Party Risk, No Corporation Is An Island
Globalization means businesses are forced to work with unfamiliar partners — exposing themselves to new forms of risk. The latest research shows...
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4.5KB2B PaymentsCiti Warns Treasurers To Update Approach To FX Risk
Citi released a new report this week warning corporate treasurers to improve their FX risk mitigation efforts. The bank said Thursday (Mar....
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4.7KB2B PaymentsReval’s Treasury Tools Find A Buyer
Reval offers treasury management solutions that have now become the target of an acquisition. Reports on Thursday (Oct. 6) said Reval has...
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5.4KB2B PaymentsClearinghouses Too Risky, Say Global Finance Officials
The International Organization of Securities Commissions and the Bank for International Settlements’ Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructure (CPMI) released joint reports...
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4.7KB2B PaymentsStartups Protecting The Enterprise On All Fronts
B2B FinTech startups struck out this week, but that doesn’t mean venture capitalists ignored the B2B startup space altogether. This week was...
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3.1KB2B PaymentsHow To Mitigate The Shock Of Brexit-Like Events
Any company with a budget (that is, every company) engages in some type of financial planning. Globalization has enterprises of all sizes...
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What Treasurers Overlook When Managing Risk
Risk mitigation is often thought of in the context of FX volatility and global trade. OpenLink wants corporate treasurers to have something...
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4.0KB2B PaymentsCFOs, Treasurers Are The One-Two Punch Against FX Risk
The conversation about exposure to FX risk continues to mount alongside the strengthening U.S. dollar, according to Deloitte LLP — and that...
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Saxo Taps Treasurers’ Demand For FX Risk Watch
When B2B payments firm Saxo Payments released a new whitepaper outlining the troubles of cross-border payments for corporates, the company was gearing...
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When CFOs’ Worries Are FinServ’s Worries, Too
From China’s slowing economic growth, to the strengthening U.S. dollar, to a host of other geopolitical phenomena impacting the global economy, corporate...
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AFEX Spreads X-Border Payments To New Market
Cross-border payments and risk management company AFEX is doing a bit of cross-border movement itself. The company revealed Monday (March 14) that...
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Data Overload Stifling Treasurers’ FX Visibility
Corporate treasurers continue to struggle with managing foreign exchange risk and exposure. A recent report by East & Partners found that SMEs...
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5.0KB2B PaymentsFX Risk Exposure Is Burning SMEs, Says Study
Small and medium-sized enterprises in the U.K. and France are dangerously exposed to foreign exchange risk. That’s according to new research from...
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3.5KB2B PaymentsThe Treasurer’s View Of A Changing Market Landscape
Analysts have worked to spread the word in recent years that the role of the corporate treasurer is changing. Especially post-financial crisis,...
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Experian Ramps Up SME Risk Assessment
Experian hasn’t had an easy time as of late. The information services company was forced to sell off its consumer data operations,...
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The Flipside To Cross-Border Supply Chains
Businesses today can no longer ignore events across the globe, even when on the other side of the planet. That’s because today’s...
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1.4KB2B PaymentsRunning A Background Check For Businesses
A key challenge for alternative lenders in the small business lending sector is the ability to adequately vet and assess potential borrowers....
