Digital disruption is playing out in a host of industries, not the least of which includes corporate treasury functions, which are becoming much more global and complex — and more tailored to larger changes in the digital economy. Dealing with that disruption, and finding ways...
“You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” — so goes the dim, cynical saying. That would seem to apply to credit unions (CUs), and to Consumers Credit Union of Illinois specifically, one of the largest CUs around, which has been in business since 1930 (before the Great...
From fears that automation and technology will replace the need for human accountants, what has emerged instead is an understanding that technology is forcing the accounting and corporate finance professions to adjust to a new reality: technology can handle the manual number-crunching, leaving professionals to...
There is no shortage of headlines about the partial government shutdown that is now on its 27th day, and no shortage of articles speculating how long it will go on, what will be affected and (most often) what it will take to finally bring it to an...
April 22, 2019
“You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” — so goes the dim, cynical saying. That would seem to apply to credit unions (CUs), and to Consumers Credit Union of Illinois specifically, one of the largest CUs around, which has been in business since 1930 (before the Great Depression reached its worst depths). However, we are living in […]
January 18, 2019
There is no shortage of headlines about the partial government shutdown that is now on its 27th day, and no shortage of articles speculating how long it will go on, what will...
September 26, 2017
Neither a borrower nor a lender be, the saying goes. Although in a perfect world that might be the way to live life, we live in a world far from...
September 16, 2019
As more startups penetrate the $1.5 trillion global payments market with free services, banks could lose as much as $280 billion in revenue by 2025, according to an Accenture report and press release circulated on Monday (Sept. 16). Financial institutions currently control the international payments sector — anticipated to reach $2 trillion globally by 2025 […]
May 01, 2019
Digital disruption is playing out in a host of industries, not the least of which includes corporate treasury functions, which are becoming much more global and complex — and more...
