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In 1915, a Wall Street analyst named Benjamin Graham saw an opportunity. Guggenheim Exploration was trading as a single stock, but it held shares in multiple copper mining companies worth far more than the parent company’s price. Graham bought the undervalued parent, shorted the overvalued components, and waited. When the structure dissolved, he captured the spread exactly as he had hoped (and...
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In an era of high interest rates, volatile currency markets, and rapidly shifting global flows of money, working capital has emerged as far more than an operational concern. For many finance chiefs, it has become a strategic differentiator.
“Working capital efficiency is the topmost important thing. In our business, treasury and cash flow...
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Is the B2B sales world ready for AI-powered platforms that act less like pieces of software and more like tireless, always-on members of the sales team?
It might be.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is writing a new thesis for the near future of B2B commerce. Buyers want to self-educate quickly, on their own terms, without...
For decades, finance teams have been branded as the “cost center” of the enterprise, a department primarily responsible for controlling budgets, approving expenses and delivering reports.
“Go to the finance team to get your expenses approved, right? Or to check on your budget, and they say yes or no,” Emanuel Pleitez, head of finance at Finix, said during a discussion for the PYMNTS...
The digital divide that once separated who paid how across borders is narrowing fast. In the United States, digital wallets have become the great equalizer. They’re used almost as readily by retirees as by recent college graduates, and by middle-income consumers as by the wealthy.
That’s the subtle but striking finding in “Global Money Movement: U.S. Edition,” an April 2025 data brief...
The FinTech initial public offering (IPO) market has roared back to life in 2025 after several quiet years.
However, it’s not the same speculative surge that defined the last cycle. Early offerings from Klarna, Figure Technology Solutions, Circle and Chime have largely been met with optimism and double-digit increases from their offering prices, while the business models themselves...
The growing adoption of stablecoins could boost the demand for dollars by as much as $1.4 trillion by 2027, strengthening the currency’s role in global finance, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Oct. 7), citing JPMorgan Chase strategists.
The bank’s strategists have widely varying estimates for the eventual size of the stablecoin market, ranging from $500 billion to $2 trillion, according to...
Salesforce reportedly told customers Tuesday (Oct. 7) that it won’t pay a ransom demanded by a hacking group that threatened to publish client data it claims to have stolen.
The company won’t negotiate or pay any extortion demand, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing a Salesforce email and comments from a company spokesperson.
Allen Tsai, a Salesforce spokesperson, told Bloomberg that...
Americans are walking a careful line as they navigate inflation and household balance sheets, leveraging credit where needed but showing signs of restraint.
The latest Federal Reserve data released Tuesday (Oct. 7) paints a picture of consumers who still have “dry powder” in the form of available credit but are using it judiciously as the year winds down.
The Federal Reserve’s G.19...
Oracle NetSuite has embedded BILL-powered payment automation capability in its accounts payable offering, NetSuite Intelligent Payment Automation.
This combination will enable U.S. customers using NetSuite Intelligent Payment Automation to accelerate their AP processes, increase efficiency and reduce risk, the companies said in a Tuesday (Oct. 7) press release.
“Our strategic...