Getting ready to start covering the long, two-day list of financial technology demos at FinovateFall 2010 in NYC. Wish me luck keeping up. I hope this is helpful for those who couldn't be here. This is the fourth annual fall financial technology showcase in New York...
Today the Financial Women's Association of San Francisco (FWASF) hosted its annual Scholarship Luncheon. Two undergraduates and six graduate students from six Bay Area schools received a total of $70,000 in scholarships. I am on the FWA board and have been involved in...
I am honored to be on the board of the Financial Women's Association of San Francisco (FWA SF). Each year we award approximately $100,000 worth of scholarships to undergraduate and graduate women studying finance and accounting at Bay Area colleges and universities....
If there is a silver lining to the credit crisis and resulting economic woes, it is renewed energy in the supplier financing space. As a B2B e-payment evangelizer, I’ve long considered dynamic supplier financing a potential “killer app” to drive broad adoption of...
Sign of the times: who's getting investor money? A company that runs a marketplace for real-time trading of accounts receivable, enabling small and mid-sized businesses to accelerate their cash flow. via NYTimes DealBook: The Receivables Exchange, a New Orleans...
This week's Economist includes a Special Report on The Future of Finance (and it's not pretty): Contents: The collapse of finance Why is finance so unstable? Fallible mathematical models When markets turn Playing financial chicken Regulating finance Fixing...
Joe Nocera thinks so. Ms. Bair — who, thankfully, will remain the head of the F.D.I.C. in the new administration — has been thinking along the same lines. She, Mr. Bernanke and Treasury officials have begun talking about a new kind of bank, one that would be...
This is good. Niall Ferguson on the Colbert Report (Stephen Colbert asks "Am I Money?") .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links...
This is the first in a series of posts by guest author, Katherine Duran. Who can or will ever forget all the investment problems of 2008? Problems that most likely began sometime in 2007 and have yet to take their last curtain call. Problems that seemed to be...
CFO.com wraps up it's end of the year compilations with a list of the most popular articles on how corporate finance can deal with the crisis and manage its impact on company strategy (much better than rehashing all the bad news!) Well worth exploring: Downturn...
