by Brian Weeks | May 22, 2023 | Replays, Webinars
A formal assessment of a company’s payment processes typically reveals 50-100% more payment processes than they believed they had. Every payment flow is a point of security exposure, and it is difficult to protect what you don’t know exists. This webinar will discuss the principles of a payment assessment, offering practical insights and leading practices for completing a thorough inventory, formally documenting it for institutional knowledge, assessing controls and types of payment flows, and examining your organization’s overall situation with regards to payments.
by Brian Weeks | May 22, 2023 | Replays, Webinars
Securing inbound payments and outbound payments continues to be top of mind for many companies. The risks of fraud and data breaches are at elevated levels and continue to rise. In 2022, 65% of financial professionals reported they were victims of either attempted or actual fraud. Fraud considerations on the receivables side are too often ignored or minimized. Securing inbound payments is vital.
This session will explore how you can assess the security processes and standards for payments flowing in through your lockboxes (paper and electronic). What are the common issues that create problems? How can these issues be controlled or mitigated? New security standards are needed to provide reasonable care and control over your inbound payments.
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
-Top considerations to keep in mind when designing an inbound payment process and evaluating services.
-Security questions to know and answers that are required.
by Brian Weeks | May 22, 2023 | Replays, Webinars
The digital age is here and is helping to remake business generally and treasury specifically. While the digital age is bringing us immense increases in data, nearly unlimited scale of computing power, faster expectations for business processes, and growth and power of networks and service-oriented functionalities, payment fraud continues to pose a threat. Although criminals are taking advantage of the digital age to defraud companies, the use of technology is a massive benefit to those who use it effectively. This webinar will discuss treasury’s situation and several imperatives: leveraging the technology for flexibility, insight, visibility, efficiency, and control, as well as the need to scale up defensive technology and tactics to combat fraud.
by Brian Weeks | May 15, 2023 | Replays, Webinars
While FBAR reporting requirements for corporations and FBAR signers (including portal users who can enter or approve a wire transfer) have been around for many years, the level of understanding still varies significantly. This session will start off with a brief refresh of the FBAR requirements. The majority of the webinar time will be allocated to studying beneficial ownership information (BOI) and new requirements that begin January 1, 2024 for companies that meet specific requirements. This is the first in a series that will explore BOI requirements and how to solve for this regulation.
by Brian Weeks | May 8, 2023 | Replays, Webinars
Managing liquidity in today’s organizations requires more than achieving visibility to cash balances. In an environment of risk and tightening access to capital and cash, challenges become amplified. A panel (representing corporates, SCF experts, and consultants) will discuss corporate pain points, developments in the economy at large, and the use of levers such as SCF to better manage liquidity.
by Brian Weeks | Apr 20, 2023 | Replays, Webinars
With interest rates rising and other factors creating a complex economic environment, managing the cash conversion cycle and working capital efficiently is a major challenge for many organizations. While cash is always a priority, it’s often difficult to track and improve liquidity. This webinar will discuss ways of leveraging technology and using efficient organizational strategies to manage working capital effectively even with limited human resources. Topics covered will include the following:
Measuring what matters.
Building bridges internally.
Gaining exposure to payables and receivables departments.
Tools that allow you to move quickly.
Benefits of joint software and finance solutions.
