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The Future of Financial Leadership: Aligning Operational and Strategic CFOs

The Finance Weekly

Here are a few reasons why: Lacks a Future-Focused Outlook: Operational finance leadership primarily focuses on the company's past and present, which can prevent it from visualizing the company's future and the corresponding uncertainties and financial risks.

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UBS Successfully Pilots Blockchain-based Payment Solution for Cross-Border Transactions

The Fintech Times

Companies should also be able to manage intraday liquidity and adjust liquidity buffers on their accounts more easily in the future, thanks to enhanced visibility of their total cash positions. Cross-border payments often lead to delayed settlements, creating a fragmented view of liquidity positions for companies.

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Reflecting on 2024: A transformative year in payments regulation

The Payments Association

This regulation compels PSPs to reassess their pricing models, potentially leading to revenue adjustments and necessitating strategies to offset reduced margins. In response to MiCA’s requirements, several crypto exchanges and service providers adjusted their offerings.

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Cloud Banking Next Step In FI Modernization

PYMNTS

These architectures rely on robust built-in automation so that [the platform can adjust capacity automatically] as volumes change,” Ramón Villarreal , global architect of financial services for Red Hat, told PYMNTS. “It The first is improved speed, shown by the adoption of cloud technology from global payments network SWIFT.

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Deep Dive: How Regulatory Compliance Tools Help Keep Remittances Flowing

PYMNTS

Reducing fees for remittances might push price points low enough that more consumers could resume sending money home, though, and some researchers believe that money transfer service providers could make such price adjustments if they are able to reduce their own expenses through more robust and cost-effective regulatory compliance measures. .

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TransferWise On The Faster Future Of Cross-Border Payments

PYMNTS

The traditional correspondent banking network is one major speedbump that stops financial institutions (FIs) from providing speedy, inexpensive, cross-currency and cross-border transfers, Lembo explained, but financial services providers can adopt new technology and approaches to safely streamline these transactions.

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Finance Teams: Stop Wasting Time on Manual Account Reconciliation & Automate

The Finance Weekly

For both internal and external sources, each balance has to match the corresponding account in the general ledger. Once the errors have been identified, the bank should be notified to correct the error on their end and generate an adjusted bank statement. Bottlenecks in the period-end are closed from unexplained exceptions (i.e.