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Too Big to Fail

March 5, 202012 min

The January 1st 2020 deadline for the US Stay Rules has passed – so are Global Systemically Important Banks (GSIB) now fully compliant? Have all their covered entities, subsidiaries, affiliates, and their client counterparties that use derivatives, repurchase agreements and certain other types of financial contracts been identified, and in-scope qualified financial contracts (QFC) remediated? Or will the lack of accurate, up to date trading partner information jeopardise and undermine the recovery and resolution objectives...

by FTB News Desk

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Asia’s growth ceiling – and how to break it

November 19, 201915 min

When working with customers around Asia, I’ve noticed that most businesses have a real desire to adopt the latest digital solutions. They want to grow fast, and they appreciate how the efficiency and scalability of automated, self-service SaaS platforms can help them do so. But at the same time, they tend to not feel comfortable adopting these solutions unless they have someone to take them through the implementation process, one step at a time –...

by FTB News Desk

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Three Data-Driven Strategies For Better Fraud Detection

November 12, 201914 min

If your organization is like most, your employees are spending more money on more spend categories and using more payment methods than ever before. While this increase in employee flexibility is great for productivity, it often comes with a lack of visibility and an increased risk of fraud. Organizations that are not equipped to capture all of this spend are vulnerable to compliance risks, not to mention schemes from both intentional and unintentional fraudsters. However, some organizations have embraced this change...

by FTB News Desk

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The Trouble With Travel Spend: Unpacking A CFO’s Perennial Puzzle

November 5, 201915 min

There’s nothing like meeting with customers and business partners face to face. The opportunity to capture their attention, engage them in the conversation, and drive productive collaboration is unmatched when it comes to nurturing strong, lasting, and, in most cases, loyal relationships. Most importantly, a partnership of trust is built through a mutual understanding of what’s at stake and a sense of a shared mission. Even after the biggest wins, the afterglow of accomplishment quickly...

by FTB Guest Features

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Cash And Expense Management: Building Finance’s Influence In Midsize Businesses

October 29, 20197 min

Cash and expense management are two of the most powerful forms of leverage for finance leaders of midsize companies. When combined, they enable considerable decision-making influence in the realm of growth and expansion. When this superpower is compromised by inaccurate information, however, the business might find itself moving forward without the proper guidance to make sound purchase and investment decisions. Fortunately, according to the IDC InfoBrief “The Finance Role in Best-Run Midsize Companies: Improving Decision Making...

by FTB Guest Features

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Make it Easy, Make it Work

October 22, 201916 min

Getting staff to properly populate their travel requests and expense claims is one of CFOs’ toughest asks. But user-oriented technology can help.

by FTB Guest Features

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Spend Visibility and Cost Control Key to Helping APAC Firms Grow

October 15, 201919 min

Culture of cost consciousness also makes expansion bid more likely to succeed

by FTB Guest Features

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Will Facebook’s Libra Help Bring Cryptocurrency To The Masses?

September 5, 201915 min

When Facebook announced plans for a stablecoin called Libra, the reaction from the cryptocurrency world ranged somewhere between skeptical and cautiously optimistic. But, regardless of any specific merits of Facebook’s version of a digital coin, the social-media giant’s move could help speed the adoption of cryptocurrency to a larger audience, says Kirill Bensonoff (www.kirillbensonoff.com), a serial entrepreneur and an expert in blockchain. “The biggest issue now is that most people are not familiar with crypto;...

by FTB Guest Features

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The Money Hackers: How a Group of Misfits Took on Wall Street and Changed Finance Forever

August 21, 201916 min

Whether you’ve heard of fintech or not, it’s already changing your life. Have you ever “Venmoed” someone? Do you think of investing in Bitcoin even though you can’t quite explain what it is? If you’ve deposited a check using your iPhone, that’s fintech. And if you’ve gone to a bank branch and discovered it has been closed and shuttered for good, odds are that’s because of fintech too. The Money Hackers: How a Group of...

by FTB Guest Features

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Is It Time To Play Defense With Your Investment Portfolio?

August 7, 201911 min

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