Open banking/instant payments company Zūm Rails is teaming with Fiserv. The collaboration, announced Thursday (Oct. 3), will see Zūm utilize Fiserv’s embedded finance capabilities to enable payments and financial services for U.S. businesses. “Today, payments and banking services are expanding beyond traditional banks and financial institutions, and companies across industries...
The advent of 21st century technologies, combined with contemporary macroeconomic realities, has transformed enterprise operations. And the greatest beneficiary has been the back office, with traditionally administrative functions like finance and treasury taking new prominence. Historically, the role of a company’s treasurer has been seen...
For CFOs, the business itself is their biggest customer and most important client. And given the increasingly dynamic operating landscape today’s middle-market businesses are tasked with navigating, ensuring that their own firm is leading the charge relative to peers and competitors is top of mind...
The future of the chief financial officer seat and finance function is being built atop contemporary transformations. Transformations that are increasingly being driven, in turn, by contemporary business needs. That’s because, given the realities of today’s shifting macro backdrop, CFOs are more and more turned...
June 13, 2024
The modern chief financial officer looks a little more modern every day. Having emerged almost fully from the back office, finance functions and their CFO leaders are increasingly turned to as a single source of company-wide truth amid the unpredictable realities of today’s dynamic and unrelenting macro environment. “The CFO role has evolved from being […]
June 05, 2024
Today’s CFOs have their task cut out for them. From managing and mitigating historic levels of uncertainty to striking the right return on investment (ROI) from the crowded field of...
January 05, 2024
Every ship needs a navigator, particularly when the seas are choppy — even stormy. Increasingly, the chief financial officer (CFO) has stepped up to play the navigator role within organizations,...
October 03, 2023
Sustainable growth comes from consistent organizational buy-in at the executive level. “It is about setting strategic direction from the top,” Aanchal Kochhar, head of product at Capital One Trade Credit,...
October 03, 2024
Open banking/instant payments company Zūm Rails is teaming with Fiserv. The collaboration, announced Thursday (Oct. 3), will see Zūm utilize Fiserv’s embedded finance capabilities to enable payments and financial services for U.S. businesses. “Today, payments and banking services are expanding beyond traditional banks and financial institutions, and companies across industries are eager to embed financial and payment options directly into […]
April 22, 2024
French FinTech Payflows has raised $26 million for its all-in-one platform for finance teams. The company announced the funding on LinkedIn as it emerged from stealth Monday (April 22), saying that its platform would...
March 26, 2024
Qonto has added its first in-house financing offer, “Pay later,” to the business finance solutions it offers small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and freelancers. The new Pay later is a short-term...
February 01, 2024
More and more companies are reportedly taking advantage of a growing leveraged loan market. As Bloomberg News reported Thursday (Feb. 1), these businesses are using new first-lien debt to help...
