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The enterprise is exposed to financial risks at just about every angle, with expansion across borders and into partnerships with unfamiliar firms upping the ante on both risk and reward. Analysts are urging corporates to enhance their riskmanagement strategies in today’s particularly volatile climate.
This week's B2B Venture Capital roundup saw more than $76 million in new funding. And while investors targeted an accounts payable payments startup as well as another platform designed to help other startups understand their equity, a common theme this week was investment in riskmitigation capabilities.
Fusion RiskManagement is expanding its corporate riskmanagement software offering by integrating new functionality into the tool, the company said in a press release on Monday (Sept. The enhancement means third parties can more easily participate in a holistic riskmitigation strategy, Fusion noted.
The growing complexity of international supply chains inevitably adds complexity to riskmitigation 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.
Riskmitigation isn’t a new concept, Simkins noted, but today’s organizations are often unfamiliar with the correct strategies they need to deploy when mitigating third-party cyber risk. . “They manage credit risk and liquidity risk, and more traditional third-party risk verticals,” he said.
But lenders themselves, even industry incumbents, are also quickly recognizing the potential that unlocking data has not only on improving the SMB borrowing experience, but on significantly improving their own internal operations, particularly when it comes to riskmitigation.
Coupa , which works in business spend management, is rolling out new capabilities to help with businesses’ spend visibility while lowering risk, through a cloud-based platform, according to a press release.
The State of Risk Oversight: An Overview of Enterprise RiskManagement Practices ,” a new report released by the American Institute of CPAs ( AICPA ) and North Carolina State University’s Enterprise RiskManagement ( ERM ) Initiative), surprisingly only mentions cyber risk a handful of times.
More than a third (36 percent) of survey respondents said fraud monitoring and riskmitigation are the areas in which CFOs are most falling short. That’s followed closely by performance riskmanagement and strategic/operational riskmanagement, each cited by 32 percent of survey respondents as areas in which CFOs fail to deliver.
Riskmanagement is complex territory for many businesses, especially those with complex partnerships, vast supply chains and global footprints. For fund investors, active riskmanagement is of particular importance for treasurers, Hazeltree noted. One is in assessing counterparty strength.
Automated riskmanagement solutions can be helpful in theory. That’s the idea behind Dun & Bradstreet’s D&B Compass solution, launched this week to automate third-party riskmanagement for procurement and compliance professionals.
Tokyo Shoko Research, a Japan -based commercial database, has signed an agreement with SAP Ariba in the latter’s effort to strengthen its supply chain riskmitigation offerings. million Japanese companies to augment its SAP Ariba Supplier Risk solution, the companies said in a press release Monday (July 22).
Insurance firm Zurich is introducing a new supply chain riskmanagement service in conjunction with riskmethods, reports in Global Banking and Finance Review said Thursday (March 7). Riskmanagement is about identifying, assessing and controlling risk from an operational level and making decisions to balance the benefits,” she said.
Citi released a new report this week warning corporate treasurers to improve their FX riskmitigation efforts. Most of the companies surveyed have mature FX riskmitigation solutions deployed in their enterprises, the research found. The bank said Thursday (Mar. The bank said Thursday (Mar.
Supplier riskmitigation is key for any B2B trade deal, especially as these transactions grow across borders into uncharted territory with unfamiliar business partners. Online B2B eCommerce site DHgate.com is looking to ease anxieties of international trade by launching a trust and safety department.
Today, B2B payment terms are in dramatic flux, while supply chain disruptions have led to bottlenecks that leave some vendors in short supply of cash. Broadening RiskMitigation. As such, trade finance will be an important piece of the global recovery puzzle. ”
Business intelligence company CubeLogic has announced its support for Trade Credit Insurance as part of an overall riskmitigation strategy. ” The company noted while it supported the use of Trade Credit Insurance, the tool should not be used as a replacement for broad riskmitigation strategies.
and China, as well as Brexit , are among the biggest current geopolitical events that continue to rock the FX market, and companies are at risk of taking significant financial hits as a result. Trade tensions between the U.S.
Many of the risks that companies face not only stem from these vendors further down the supply chain, but often aren’t recognized by corporations struggling to obtain visibility and connectivity to those suppliers beyond the first tier. ” Data Evolution. ”
"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.
It's one of the biggest blind spots in supply chain riskmanagement, said Allis. It gives a wealth of intelligence, where now you can say, 'in this one facility that needs to continue running, I'm dependent on one main vendor that's got a very high risk score. I need to be proactive there,'" said Allis.
Today, they’re managing this workload in a remote setting on top of a slew of other pressures facing organizations. So it’s not exactly surprising that supply chain riskmitigation efforts can fall by the wayside. Lackluster Risk Strategies. ”
ManagingRisk. One of the most crucial areas for banks’ treasuries is riskmitigation , which, according to Beaulande, has become more complex as it relates to other areas of treasury management. Beaulande added that advanced analytics technology is now a must-have for banks to adequately manage these risks.
But sophisticated data management does offer some predictability to vendor riskmitigation 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.
Business-to-business (B2B) trade, especially when deals occur across borders, expose businesses to all sorts of risks, like non-payment (on the supplier’s side), or non-deliver (on the buyer’s side). Research from Atradius released in 2016 found that risks down the supply chain are 75 percent higher than they were pre-financial crisis.
But APIs can offer a different strategic advantage, especially to B2B FinTechs, according to A.J. Remlinger, Project Manager — Solutions for Business at foreign exchange technology firm OANDA. TMS providers have great platforms, and we have a great position in riskmanagement as it relates to FX.”. In the U.K.,
According to Jay Wissema, director of business development at cross-border payment solutions provider Volopa, recent events in the global markets have heightened awareness of the importance of foreign exchange volatility riskmitigation. Part of SMBs efforts’ to address a volatile market should be FX riskmitigation.
In a press release issued on Thursday (June 14), the companies announced their partnership aimed at increasing visibility and riskmitigation in businesses’ supplier sourcing and management processes, and through their overall procurement operations. ”
In a survey of treasurers across more than 200 companies in various parts of the globe, Deloitte found that the corporate treasurer continues to be positioned as a risk-management function of organizations: 97 percent said that the treasurers’ role in liquidity riskmanagement is important.
In times of volatility, corporates and their business partners must collaborate to find common ground and ensure that cash continues to flow favorably for both sides of a B2B transaction. Argos Risk, Gatekeeper Enable Third-Party Management. The ultimate B2B payment is really a virtual card,” he said.
With more than $370 million raised by B2B startups this week, investors are showing their support for companies that help other businesses embrace digitization. In addition to the new funding, Deskera announced the debut of its B2B eCommerce platform Desk, allowing small businesses to buy and sell online.
Deloitte noted that corporations are increasingly looking to alternative FX riskmanagement solutions apart from derivative hedging. But while companies explore new ways to handle this aspect of treasury, there are some mistakes treasurers make that allow FX risks to remain unseen. Where Treasurers Go Wrong.
Supplier risk and supply chain compliance company Sword GRC is collaborating with Brazil-based Procurement Garage to expand across Latin America, the companies announced in a press release Friday (July 12). Both buyers and suppliers are turning to technology to support their risk-mitigation efforts. China trade wars.
Riskmitigation is often thought of in the context of FX volatility and global trade. According to the executive, it becomes a problem when the FX and hedging platforms, cash and treasury management tools and commodities procurement processes don’t all interconnect with each other. Technology Changes The Game.
The report also found evidence that greater collaboration across internal company departments was linked to improved cost, capital and riskmanagement; more than two-thirds of CFOs noted they believed technology improvement was vital to riskmitigation, with business performance risk cited as the No.
According to a press release Wednesday (May 16), the European Central Bank (ECB), based in Germany, has chosen OpenLink to provide treasury and riskmanagement technology to manage its euro-dominated investment portfolio, foreign reserves and other asset purchase programs.
Barclays is collaborating with one of the graduates of its accelerator program to develop enhanced riskmitigation tools. In an announcement sent to PYMNTS, Barclays reported a partnership with Simudyne , a graduate of the Barclays Accelerator, to test new riskmitigation solutions.
Planning for the future within an organization means mitigatingrisks that may or may not come to fruition. Third-party riskmanagement will emerge as an essential component of business resiliency for corporate treasurers, said Barker.
“Boards of directors and executive management teams cannot afford to managerisks casually on a reactive basis, especially considering the rapid pace of disruptive innovation and technological developments in an ever-advancing digital world.” ” A Closer Look At The Risks.
The tool interconnects Shell’s central treasury office to its 718 operating units to manage foreign exchange (FX) risk and volatility with its more than 200 bank partners. “Now, we can more efficiently route market requests from regional centers around the world to our central treasury.
Indeed, banks must tread carefully in the world of trade finance, and with such little room for error and financial losses, riskmanagement is critical. In many ways, collaboration with FinTechs has become a key part of riskmitigation for banks, with researchers finding that only 1.4
When B2B payments firm Saxo Payments released a new whitepaper outlining the troubles of cross-border payments for corporates, the company was gearing up for its latest release: a real-time foreign exchange trading platform, integrated into its Banking Circle portal.
We bring people, technology and commerce together with every payment, helping companies of all sizes navigate the often challenging world of foreign exchange, riskmanagement, and compliance. We help our customers through these changes both at an operational and strategic level by assisting them with FX riskmitigation strategies.
. “However, I would say many businesses do not fully understand, or have awareness of, the different riskmanagement tools.” ” SMBs particularly appear challenged by FX riskmitigation, he noted.
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