Stax

AUGUST 22, 2024

In this article, we’ll discuss what SaaS companies looking to become payment facilitators need to know about risk management strategies. PayFacs handle risk assessment, underwriting, settling of funds, compliance, and chargebacks which exposes them to greater potential risks. The due diligence doesn’t stop at onboarding.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2020

“But at the same time, they have all lacked a credible tool to conduct an assessment of these [SMBs] in an independent way.” “We’re be able to source directly from current accounts and have an [SMB] risk score calculated on a daily basis — that’s really amazing.” Expanding The Data Scope.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

Understanding exposure to risk is essential for companies today, and Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) research suggests awareness is strong, with U.S. procurement professionals identifying supplier due diligence, internal compliance training, social governance efforts and continued vendor monitoring as the biggest concerns.

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The Fintech Times

AUGUST 21, 2024

As the real estate industry continues to embrace digital transformation, proptech innovations are playing a crucial role in helping property owners maximise profits and control expenses. “Tools that assess and mitigate risks… can transform historical cost centres into revenue streams,” McCormick adds.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2016

“Closing the gap of what insights were utilized in extending credit, to what insights are used to continue the utilization of credit, is critical for financial institutions today.” He offered the example of banks using analysis of financial statements to assess risk in the loan origination process.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2018

The growing complexity of international supply chains inevitably adds complexity to risk mitigation and increases risk exposure to all players involved. Once, a company’s top supplier-related risk may have been the threat of a vendor going out of business, or goods failing to make it to their destination on time.

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Fintech News

MAY 14, 2024

The convergence of exponential increases in processing power, continuous advancements in deep learning and neural networks, and the democratisation of AI tools has fueled a creative explosion in digital media.

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Fintech News

JULY 24, 2024

The financial sector is on the edge of a major transformation powered by continuous technological advancements. Banks must, therefore, prioritise resilience and continuity as never before. Zero Downtime ensures continuous service availability, eliminating the concept of ‘offline’ in financial services.

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Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

As such, PayFacs need to equip themselves with an effective risk management strategy that helps them continuously monitor risks and employ appropriate risk responses if needed. TL;DR Four main types of risks come with payment facilitation: compliance risks, operational risks, transactional risks, and reputational risks.

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Finovate

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

With Venminder, firms can manage vendors, track contract data, perform due diligence and oversight, send and score questionnaires, conduct risk assessments, systemically monitor risks across domains, order due diligence assessments on vendor controls, and more.

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Nanonets

MAY 31, 2023

This empowers finance professionals to make informed decisions about budgeting, cash flow management, investment opportunities, and risk mitigation. Organizations need to assess the financial feasibility and scalability of AI implementations, evaluating the costs and ensuring the benefits outweigh them.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

"That process of gathering data and having your expert personnel evaluate it to determine that risk is definitely the biggest challenge.". Risk Focus In Flux. Pre-pandemic, cybersecurity risks among third-party partners like suppliers had been top priority. Thinking Ahead. The second is to think proactively.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

Moving data and assets between those partners around the world continues to be both challenging and expensive, but automated technology can help ease the burden and open the door up to trade financing opportunities. You have to look at risk in its entirety," said Gugelmann. "The There are many new ways of risk mitigation.".

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2020

With the global pandemic tossing many organizations into a digitization crash-course, business continuity has remained top of mind for the C-suite. It will continue to be a focus, too, as businesses gradually reopen and as employees begin to return to the office. Mitigating Risk. Asking the Right Questions.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

So it’s not exactly surprising that supply chain risk mitigation efforts can fall by the wayside. Small businesses aren’t the only ones falling short on their supply chain, supplier and third-party risk management strategies. ” Yet SMBs face even greater headwinds in their efforts to mitigate these risks.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

But sophisticated data management does offer some predictability to vendor risk mitigation and supply chain management. Blake told PYMNTS that, for larger organizations that deal with multiple vendors across multiple geographies, supply chain risk is on the tip of everyone’s tongue.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2019

.” The report also issued a slight warning to the industry: While faster payment innovations and technologies are progressing, solutions “tend to focus on technology more than risk,” with less attention paid to risk mitigation and legality than to speed. “As the U.S. ”

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FICO

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Cyber-readiness is increasingly a necessity for organizations, but for insurance underwriters, evaluating an organization’s cybersecurity risk and setting the appropriate insurance premium continues to be an inexact science. To learn more, read our Executive Briefing Understanding Your Cybersecurity Posture.

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Seon

JUNE 24, 2024

The rise of online transactions and evolving cybercrime tactics highlight the urgent need for strong identity risk management and monitoring. Identity theft presents significant challenges to businesses, making proactive risk mitigation essential for regulatory compliance, trust, asset protection, and operational integrity.

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Fintech News

JUNE 5, 2024

The Strategy-Risk model features a distinctive two-loop design – the strategy loop and the risk loop – with each loop comprising seven nodes that represent the different stages and activities undertaken in an outsourcing process. What makes the Strategy-Risk model a robust tool is its iterative sequential approach.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Managing Risk. One of the most crucial areas for banks’ treasuries is risk mitigation , which, according to Beaulande, has become more complex as it relates to other areas of treasury management. However, interest rates, FX, commodity and derivatives risk, as well as operational risk, should not be disregarded.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2019

Their partnership will focus on promoting regulatory compliance and digitization of cross-border trade , with the NextGen solution providing analysis of trade transactions, natural language processing to assess unstructured data and customer activity and process automation that aligns bank resources and policies. ”

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 3, 2024

Having assessed their in-house strengths and weaknesses and developed a clear understanding of the competitive market, the next crucial move is ensuring stakeholders from C-level to operational teams are involved. You need to carefully assess and continuously monitor this risk factor.

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FICO

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Cyber-readiness is increasingly a necessity for organizations, but for insurance underwriters, evaluating an organization’s cybersecurity risk and setting the appropriate insurance premium continues to be an inexact science.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2016

The conversation about exposure to FX risk continues to mount alongside the strengthening U.S. More than half of treasury departments surveyed by the firm, however, say that a lack of visibility into their corporations’ exposure to this risk, as well as unreliable FX forecasts, are their top challenges.

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FICO

MAY 22, 2017

While a few have been critical that it was not bold enough, most reviewers seem to be endorsing the main message, both for what it does (initiating broad self-assessments by agencies), and for what it does not do (consolidate all accountability in the DoD). This, of course, requires an assessment of risk.

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Center for Payments

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The FFIEC Guidelines require financial institutions to implement a solid business continuity management program, which includes an effective Business Continuity Plan. The past few years have taught us the importance of a solid business continuity plan. Does your plan include a method of communication with your customers/members?

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The Fintech Times

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Prepare to adapt Andrew Stevens, principle, banking and financial services, Quadient Banks will be forced to take a proactive approach to communications in order to continually comply with Consumer Duty regulations, says Andrew Stevens , principle, banking and financial services at software development company Quadient.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

In a press release issued on Thursday (June 14), the companies announced their partnership aimed at increasing visibility and risk mitigation in businesses’ supplier sourcing and management processes, and through their overall procurement operations. ”

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Nanonets

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Effective  vendor management  contributes to cost optimization,  risk mitigation , and quality assurance.   Risk mitigation : Thorough   vendor evaluation   and ongoing monitoring can minimize the risks associated with disruptions, delays, or subpar product or service quality.

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The Fintech Times

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

. “Risk orchestration lowers risk and boosts resilience of financial institutions by facilitating quick threat detection and response,” Kelvin Lim , senior director at the Synopsys Software Integrity Group. “This necessitates a complementary risk identification and mitigation effort involving AML and fraud.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2016

alternative lending industry continues to face a bumpy road — whether from struggling alt-finance players, corporate scandals or incoming regulation — reports are highlighting yet another hurdle headed its way. As the U.S. Reports by Reuters on Friday (June 10) said loan stacking is emerging as the latest threat to marketplace lenders.

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The Finance Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2023

Both industry and government regulatory bodies, along with investors, are intensively examining the risk management strategies and protocols of enterprises. Across various sectors, boards of directors are increasingly mandated to assess and disclose the effectiveness of risk management processes within their respective organizations.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

The cyber insurance market is an emerging sector, Sayata Labs CEO and Co-Founder Asaf Lifshitz explained in a recent interview with PYMNTS, and insurance providers are facing some tough hurdles in underwriting and risk mitigation. Technology, Partnerships Address the Gaps. ”

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Neopay

JUNE 27, 2024

It is crucial to conduct a thorough assessment of your financial position and ensure that you meet the minimum capital requirements. To demonstrate financial adequacy, firms should consider the following: Capital Planning: Develop a robust capital planning strategy that takes into account potential risks and contingencies.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2017

Indeed, banks must tread carefully in the world of trade finance, and with such little room for error and financial losses, risk management is critical. In many ways, collaboration with FinTechs has become a key part of risk mitigation for banks, with researchers finding that only 1.4

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2017

Today, supplier management and risk mitigation are about more than coming up with a game plan in case contracts aren’t fulfilled. Companies need to introduce security questionnaires and rankings to assess how a supplier may handle a data breach, for instance, which would then expose a corporate buyer to a breach, too.

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