[I am in Las Vegas for the TAWPI Payments in Transition conference – these are my notes from one of the sessions. An index of all of the sessions and links to the rest of my notes is here. - EMc] Back Office Conversion: Too Little Too Late?Bob Meara, Senior...
New research from Greenwich Associates indicates that corporates are willing to settle for lower investment returns in exchange for reduced risk on short-term investments. 293 CFOs, Treasurers, and Assistant Treasurers were surveyed in February and the results are...
(graphic courtesy of The New York Times) Corporate decision makers are honing their accuracy by tapping into the collective wisdom of employees and customers via web-based prediction markets. An article to today's New York Times explains: Corporate prediction...
Today the National Association of Credit Management released its monthly Credit Manager's Index. For the first time since the index was calculated in February 2002 the combined manufacturing and services index has fallen below 50, indicating an economic...
A study released by the Federal Reserve Board's Financial Services Policy Committee on Tuesday, based on a sample of 30,000 checks from the image archive Viewpointe, indicates that businesses write nearly 40% of all checks and receive nearly...
Each year Global Finance magazine ranks the best treasury/cash management banks by region and by service category. The March 2008 issue arrived on Friday (just in time to land on the top of my weekend reading pile) and here are the highlights: Bank Rankings CITI...
CFO Magazine and Duke University recently concluded their latest quarterly Global Business Outlook survey of more than 1,000 CFOs of private and public companies worldwide. The global CFOs anticipate that inflation will rise to 3% this year and nearly 90% believe...
It's been three long years since the Federal Reserve published its previous payments study. A lot has changed in the payments world since 2004 and the latest study results confirm what we've all been experiencing: electronic payment is now dominant. At...
How often does civil service outrank business in terms of efficiency? Very rarely. But when it comes to electronic payment governments worldwide are making serious progress. A new study by the Economist Intelligence Unit measures the extent to which 43 countries...
New forecasts from Juniper Research show that around 52 million consumers will adopt new mobile technologies such as NFC (Near Field Communication) and other physical mobile payment methods to pay for everyday goods and services by 2011. This will help drive the...
