Small businesses depend on financial intermediaries like banks to manage their money and facilitate wire transfers to pay their workers, suppliers, and manufacturers overseas. In turn, banks use SWIFT to process most of these cross-border payments between firms banked in different countries. This article lists what you need to know about the SWIFT messaging system.
Every so often, Jenny Redes gets a call from an employee who has recently discovered their pay stub. They typically have questions about what all the various numbers mean, and the human resources professional says that’s understandable. “It’s a lot of information,” says Redes, a Society for Human Resource Management certified professional and human resources
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When we talk about changing culture in an organization, it rarely starts with finance, but maybe it should. Why? Because finance has a significant impact — good or bad — on the culture of any organization. In an Executive Session at AFP 2021, Gary Bischoping, partner at Hellman & Friedman, and Greg Milano, founder and
J. Scott Penny, chief acquisitions officer of Brown & Brown, Inc., Searchlight and the management ownership team of Global Risk Partners Limited, today announced that the parties have entered into an agreement to acquire the GRP insurance operations. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2022, subject to certain closing conditions,
A council formed by traditional finance conglomerates American Express, Discover, Visa and Mastercard welcomes a decentralized finance (DeFi) banking firm to a forum of participating organizations that help to improve payment data security worldwide. Read More
MX helps Upwise users connect all their financial accounts in one place because managing your money is about more than tracking dollars in and dollars out.
Alviere, a leading global embedded finance technology platform enabling any brand to offer a complete array of financial products and services to customers, fans, and employees, recently announced that AutoPay Plus, an automated loan payment service, offers a unique value proposition to its dealership partners across the country. AutoPay Plus offers car buyers and other consumers flexible payment
The tragic events unfolding in Ukraine take center stage in this month’s key points video. Guy Miller, our Chief Market Strategist and Head of Macroeconomics, discusses what the invasion of Ukraine means from a geopolitical perspective given growing sanctions on Russia, how this may impact global growth, and how the financial markets are likely to
If you’re a bank, credit union, fintech, or online banking provider, you’ve been hearing about #openfinance for over a decade. The reality is, that your customers are sharing their financial data whether you know it or not. The demand for open banking started decades ago with screen scraping and now it’s shifting to APIs as
Fintech company Upstart Holdings recently posted an earnings report that the market embraced, sending the stock higher. Upstart’s been on a wild ride since its IPO in late 2020, trading between $42 and $401 per share over just the past 12 months. The stock not sits at almost $150 per share, and investors are probably curious how
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