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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Embracing Change: How Finance & Accounting Can Make Progress in Times of Uncertainty

whitePaper | June 13, 2023

Organizations continue to deal with unparalleled disruption and uncertainty. The most successful leaders are focused on moving forward and investing in the future and managing risk and potential downside. And while effective strategy involves collaboration across functional areas, finance and accounting teams are in a unique position to help their organizations survive and thrive amidst uncertainty.

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Harnessing the Power of Conversational AI to Transform Customer Experience in Banking

whitePaper | July 24, 2022

If there’s one thing that banking customers need the most, it’s their trust in the bank. After all, we’re talking about huge amounts of money that customers invest. On the other hand, it’s very difficult for the banks to handle the daily queries of millions of customers who need answers 24x7. So, what’s the workaround?

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How Modern Observability Eases Digital Transformation In Banking

whitePaper | November 3, 2022

TA bank’s digital team typically has full observability of only 11% of its application and infrastructure environments, according to the Global CIO Report 2020 by Dynatrace. The data and metrics-laden systems are too complex and, by association, timeconsuming for most in-house teams.

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Practical tips for cloud financial governance

whitePaper | July 12, 2022

Over the past 10 years, the cloud has grown from an idea into a significant reality. More and more organizations are using the cloud for increasingly more functionalities. Measurements by Quint together with Whitelane Research1 show that 64% of the 200 respondents predicted that by 2022, more than 30% of their applications will run in the cloud (and 33% even expected it to be more than 50%). And perhaps more importantly, cloud is currently rated higher than other forms of outsourcing: 79% of respondents are satisfied with cloud infrastructure and 74% with cloud applications (compared to an average of only 69% for other forms of outsourcing). If this trend continues, all IT will be running in the cloud by 2030.

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Drawing the roadmap for digital treasury in banking

whitePaper | April 26, 2023

The treasury department’s role within a bank has become more strategic and central over the last decade. Treasury teams have prioritized the delivery of a robust risk management, governance and compliance framework as well as optimizing the bank’s liquidity and balance sheet. However, a bank’s treasurer, in its role as custodian of the bank’s balance sheet, is facing a multitude of industry drivers and macro-economic challenges that will require a new approach.

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Payments in 2023 and Beyond Key trends for Asia Pacific

whitePaper | February 1, 2023

Towards the latter part of 2022, the world started making a recovery from the pandemic with many countries now opening their borders. With this re-opening, countries also facing global macroeconomic & geopolitical challenges. Higher inflation is driving central banks to take measures which will result in increase in interest rate margins and drive higher income for banks.

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NYSE operates global financial markets across commodities, FX, equities, bonds, interest rates. NYSE's stock exchanges represent one-third of traded equities volume worldwide.As one of the world’s leading futures and options trading venues.

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