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AUGUST 29, 2017

In their Strategic Role of Treasury Survey , the AFP and Marsh & McLennan identified the forces pressing companies to shift the treasury department into a more strategic position. Capital allocation, financial risk management, and treasury and payment technologies are also key areas of focus, researchers found.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The statistic, released by East & Partners in its Treasury FinTech Index , reveals that the U.S. A +7 point increase in the AFP’s Corporate Cash Indicators report means U.S. 26% of U.S. corporate treasurers plan to spend more on FinTech next year , but it may not be anything to celebrate.

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JULY 2, 2019

Amid this trend, the population of challenger, digital-first banks targeting small businesses directly continues to climb, particularly in the U.K., As FinTech firms identify shortcomings in traditional FIs’ services for SMBs, those FIs continue to invest in new technologies and services for their large institutional and corporate clients.

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APRIL 14, 2017

The Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) came out with some scary statistics this month: B2B payments fraud is not only on the rise, but at its highest levels ever since the AFP began recording this information. The huge increase last year was so big that I didn’t think it would continue this way.

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DECEMBER 31, 2019

Many thousands of SMBs continue to struggle with managing the paper check and postal mail cycle, and it’s not limited to smaller businesses. Close to one-quarter of AP pros surveyed also want to bring ePayables and virtual cards online for treasury operations. Those options couldn’t come at a better time.

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JULY 13, 2016

The findings were detailed in the latest 2016 AFP Liquidity Survey , underwritten by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA). “Bank relationships continue to grow in level of strategic importance for organizations,” said AFP CEO and President Jim Kaitz in a statement. The report was published on Tuesday (July 12).

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JANUARY 1, 2021

“The IRS is ready to deal with direct deposit if you have a regular bank account, and they are ready to deal with paper checks, [but] they are not used to dealing with [more] payment methods on a widespread scale,” said Linda Jun , senior policy counsel for the AFP. “I Mastering Multichannel Commerce Playbook.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Corporate treasury is now more strategic for the enterprise, meaning chief financial officers and treasurers must be close-knit with their organizations’ boards of directors. ” Their concerns aren’t baseless, either. The Data Connection.

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JANUARY 23, 2018

Superior Press , a treasury management solution provider for commercial banks, is acting on that need. Separate data from the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) found use of the paper check increased in 2016. banking system, too,” the executive continued, adding that the U.S. The expansion of ACH across the U.S.,

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MARCH 5, 2018

More recently, the Association for Financial Professionals’ (AFP) 2017 Risk Survey found nearly half of businesses say their exposure to uncertainty is higher than it was three years ago, and 51 percent say forecasting risks will be more difficult three years from now than it is today. It’s going the right way now,” he said. “We

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