THE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF IMPACT INVESTING THROUGH PRIVATE DEBT

whitePaper | May 23, 2022

The need to accelerate the journey to financial operations excellence has seen the emergence of packaged, purpose-built Financial Operations Management solutions to elevate persistently manual processes that are ripe for transformation. They typically include workflows and automation, intelligence, analytics, and collaboration. These are all proven to deliver predictable returns, from speeding up the close, to reducing DSO, to streamlining netting and settlement processes. A purpose-built approach accelerates delivery and reduces delivery risk while realizing predictable returns on investment.

whitePaper | March 28, 2023

Real-time processing can offer many benefits for bank treasuries, including improved accuracy, faster decision-making, enhanced liquidity management and improved customer service with faster transaction processing and real-time visibility into customer account balances. By focusing on certain key functions, we can assess which are real benefits to treasury processes, and which may require industry consensus and further investment to become worthwhile. The industry must agree a way forward, weighing cost against benefit.

whitePaper | April 19, 2023

A key responsibility of every CFO’s role is forecasting cash position. Not only is this necessary to report to shareholders, but it’s also essential to building financial resilience for the long-term. To give an ongoing example, the recent global uncertainty has shown that understanding your working capital access is crucial to your ability to cope with disruption. But short of investing in a pack of tarot cards, how can CFOs accurately predict what’s next?

whitePaper | June 21, 2022

Data from various providers and academics analysing private equity returns show, that PE outperforms public markets throughout the business cycle, and Internal Rates of Return (IRR) pick up following recessions, as most recently observed following the 2000-1 Dotcom Bust and the 2007-8 Global Financial Crisis (GFC).

whitePaper | April 30, 2022

As the demand for real-time payments grows, so does the need for financial institutions (FIs) to offer more robust access to faster and more efficient payments. The Clearing House’s (TCH’s) RTP network laid a solid foundation for use cases and connectivity protocols, but some FIs have been waiting for FedNow before deciding how to move forward. FedNow is finally about to launch.

whitePaper | April 14, 2021

So what will 2021 - and beyond - bring us in FinTech innovation? Central Bank Digital Currencies? - perhaps - but some would argue that most currency is already digital: how much physical cash did you handle in the last year? And how much was transacted by digital money transfer, real-time payments, card transactions, mobile wallets… Does money actually exist? The news is full of how multi-million-pound artworks can now be represented by ‘non-fungible tokens’ which represent ‘digital’ but not physical ownership of the artworks.