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Financial Transformation

The pace of evolution for many corporate finance and accounting functions is accelerating. The mandate of the CFO is expanding and the challenges they face accumulating. This blog is an exploration of these topics.

Tatsiana Kuchminskaya

Tatsiana Kuchminskaya Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Andersen

How Blockchain Can Improve Insurance: Enhanced Reliability and Speed

Insurance is one of the industries actively introducing technology into its processes. In 2021, 59% of insurance firms increased their investment in innovation to show customers new and better ways to deliver services, collect data, and detect fraud. Currently, blockchain technology constitutes a small but significant part of InsurTech's innovatio...

/payments /markets

Jussi Karjalainen

Jussi Karjalainen CEO at Valtatech

How to build an approvable business case for automating your source to pay processes - Part 3

My last article covered the importance of mapping out and getting to grips with your existing technology and data, and then setting out your proposed future ‘to-be’ processes, as you build your business case for investing in your source to pay systems. This article will look at the process of identifying the must-have’s for your future processes, ...

/payments /cloud

Suchit Poralla

Suchit Poralla Director, Strategic Customer Transformation at SAP

Value Management - The key to a successful digital transformation

The current economic climate and macroenvironmental factors are forcing companies to operate more efficiently. While on the surface, it may seem like the companies would delay digital initiatives in an effort to curb IT spending, in fact, digital transformations are more important than ever before to drive operational efficiency and deliver custom...

/cloud /covid-19

Jussi Karjalainen

Jussi Karjalainen CEO at Valtatech

Build an approvable business case for automating your source to pay processes Part 2

My last article covered the importance of getting the scope of your business case for automating your source to pay processes spot on; and explained why it is critical that you understand your existing processes before you decide to improve, or automate them in full or in part. This article will look at the steps of mapping out your existing tech

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Jussi Karjalainen

Jussi Karjalainen CEO at Valtatech

Build an approvable business case for automating your procurement and source to pay processes Part 1

Procurement teams within businesses of all sizes are under pressure to drive, and then demonstrate measurable value and savings. Many are choosing to automate and optimise part of or all their finance and procurement operations as part of that process. However, like any other investment, procurement pros need to justify the investment to their CFO...

/payments

Tatsiana Kuchminskaya

Tatsiana Kuchminskaya Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Andersen

Why Do You Need a Digital Wallet?

The new digital reality is rapidly and irrevocably changing our lives. The impact of digital technology on civilization can only be compared with the appearance of fire when it became clear from the first spark that the world would never be the same. A similar thing has happened again when people can study, work, relax, shop and manage their finan...

/payments /markets

Svetlio Todorov

Svetlio Todorov Managing Director at emerchantpay

The importance of payment optimisation: Why every merchant needs a trusted payment partner

Merchants and retailers rely on payment service providers to facilitate their payments journey. While much is being said about the need to work with payment partners, it is important for merchants to understand what the benefits are and what they should be looking for in a payment service provider (PSP). At this time of continuing economic uncerta...

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Nick Shah

Nick Shah Head of CFO Business Architecture at Aptitude Software

With the emergence of dynamic and on-demand reporting, are the standard Finance reports dead?

A favourite movie line of mine is, “I want that report on my desk tomorrow morning!” I always felt it was a phrase stolen from the Finance office at the end of the 20th century! In a typical Finance function, this reporting request would entail a team of financial professionals (quite possibly all qualified accountants) extracting data from Finance...

/retail /wholesale

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Innovation for Customer Engagement Doesn’t Have to Mean Reinventing the Wheel

Are you doing everything possible to transform your business digitally? Are you striving to innovate in order to achieve maximum agility? To achieve these ends, are you invested in every kind of next-generation, open-source technology platform, and divested of all elements with a whiff of legacy? If you are a banking institution battling to make h...

/cloud /devops

Tatsiana Kuchminskaya

Tatsiana Kuchminskaya Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Andersen

Ten FinTech Trends to Follow in 2022

The pandemic provoked a crisis in many industries, including FinTech. Due to quarantine measures, banks, credit institutions, and insurance companies had to close their branches temporarily. Despite the obstacles, the new realities have become an incentive for the financial industry development, financial software development, and digital services...

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