by Brian Weeks | Jun 5, 2023 | Podcast
Join Jason Campbell and Paul Galloway on the Treasury Update Podcast as they discuss the Federal debt limit and the Federal Reserve’s decisions. This conversation explores how the debt limit is impacted by politics and funding sources. What are the pros and cons of raising the debt ceiling? What is the Fed’s current position? Is there a potential interest rate drop coming? What are the likelihood and potential severity of an impending recession?
by Brian Weeks | Jun 1, 2023 | Coffee Break Sessions, Podcast
Last session, we talked about digital currencies, coins, and tokens. But how are they stored and used? This week, Paul Galloway and Jason Campbell take a look at digital wallets. What are the risks? What are the benefits? How do they work? Listen in to find out!
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.
