Financial Close Optimization: Five Steps for Identifying and Resolving Systems and Process Inefficiencies

A recent survey by the Institute of Management Accountants found that financial closing is one of the key challenges accounting and finance organizations face; more than half of respondents to that survey said streamlining the financial close process could help improve their team’s productivity.

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Citizens Bank of Canada

Citizens Bank of Canada is a Canadian federal chartered Schedule 1 Bank and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vancouver City Savings Credit Union (Vancity), a recognized leader in business ethics, innovative thinking and community development. Since 1994, Vancity has invested over $194 million of profits back to the members and into the communities we serve...

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DATA SCIENCE, MACHINE LEARNING AND AI IN BANKING

whitePaper | December 22, 2019

Data has always been the foundation of the banking industry. What has changed in recent years, of course, is the amount of data available and the speed at which it is processed as well as the need to quickly respond to market changes. New technology gives banks the power to collect, store, and analyze exponentially more information than was imaginable not too long ago. In the wake of Fintech, banks already know that to succeed in today’s ecosystem, they must use this wealth data at a massive scale to continuously innovate.

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The ultimate solution for cryptocurrency payment transactions

whitePaper | July 10, 2022

Mrweb Finance provides financial solutions to companies and individuals by developing secure and encrypted decentralized financial systems via blockchain technology. Mrweb Finance evolved to be the ultimate solution for electronic payment transactions. We have developed solutions for electronic payment systems that use the technology of encrypted digital currencies, Blockchain, in the most efficient, secure, and reasonable time frame possible. We aim to solve most of the issues that crypto professionals face by developing a smart application " smart wallet " that operates on the Binance Smart Chain, Ethereum, and the Tron network. MrwebFi's system allows you to manage your money online. We developed a cutting-edge system that provides new decentralized financial investing technologies.

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A Quick Guide to Navigating Payment Switch Transformation

whitePaper | March 10, 2022

Digital transformation in almost all aspects of the business was always anticipated, given that the largest segment of the global consumer base is accounted for by the digital natives of the millennial and Gen Z generations. The COVID-19 pandemic only speeded up the inevitable.

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How Digitization is Driving Bank M&A and Improving Performance

whitePaper | October 21, 2021

During the pandemic banks had to experiment and take risks that under normal circumstances they would never have considered in order to keep operations up and running, such as rapidly deploying a range of digital tools. To the surprise of many, employees and customers enthusiastically embraced these digital offerings, accelerating technology maturity and adoption by several years. Banks suddenly had hard evidence that digitizing operations could bring enormous efficiency and scale advantages while actually serving customers with greater personalization. These insights, in addition to capitalization changes, are contributing to a new wave of M&A activity in the U.S. as banks look to scale up quickly as the economy emerges from the pandemic. There were more than 50 deals in the first four months of 2021 with a total value of almost $25 billion, up from $6.5 billion in the same period in 2020, according to an S&P Global report.

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How banks can innovate lightning fast

whitePaper | July 27, 2022

As banking players have embraced the digital era, customers want to do more and more online and via their mobile apps. They expect their financial transactions to be seamlessly embedded in their daily lives.

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What will the future of banking look like?

whitePaper | December 18, 2019

The financial services industry is in upheaval and while there is a lot of recent talk about rising complexity and disruption, this transformation has actually been almost twenty years in the making. Since the year 2000, banks have faced stricter and more regulations, driving up the cost of compliance. Investment in new fintech players has grown steadily in the last decade.

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Citizens Bank of Canada

Citizens Bank of Canada is a Canadian federal chartered Schedule 1 Bank and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vancouver City Savings Credit Union (Vancity), a recognized leader in business ethics, innovative thinking and community development. Since 1994, Vancity has invested over $194 million of profits back to the members and into the communities we serve...

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