Top 10 Opportunities for Technology Companies in 2022
By Barak Ravid and Stephan van Rhee When we wrote about the top 10 opportunities for technology companies last year, social distancing was the world’s main weapon against the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, thanks to vaccines, we are able to control the pandemic better, but the volatility in the markets has …
How Will Soft Skills Give CFOs a Sharper Edge?
By Randall Tavierne Dealing with the unexpected is an occupational hazard for chief finance officers (CFOs) of private companies, but they have been sorely tested during the past year as the priority has moved to responding to the unprecedented health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Practical concerns — …
The Role of Finance Continues to Evolve
By Daniel Oh The roles of CFOs and controllers have been greatly transformed in recent years with the increased demand for accounting automation and the need to adapt to change. Today, their responsibilities could include corporate planning, strategy, and connecting the dots between financial and operational data to drive business …
Growing Beyond Groceries: Understanding the Financial Power of The Ecosystem Expansion
Grocers are in a unique position to expand beyond their core retail offerings. It can be challenging to build an ecosystem—but the rewards could be worth it. By Steven Begley, Jenny Hu, Jonatan Janmark, Nicholas Landry, and Tom Youldon There are few locations more central to our lives than grocery …
CFO CV
RYU Apparel Inc. (TSXV: RYU) (OTCQB: RYPPF) (FWB: RYA), creator of award-winning urban athletic apparel, welcomes Robert Lelovic, CA, CPA as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFQO). Lelovic brings two decades of experience building public companies across diverse industries from Silicon Valley technology companies to the energy sector in the …
Talking Points
A coalition of more than 25 National Indigenous Organizations has unveiled a new National Indigenous Economic Strategy (NIES), the first such strategy to be built and designed exclusively by Indigenous leaders, institutions, and organizations from across Canada. The strategy has four strategic pathways, People, Lands, Infrastructure and Finance, with 107 …
The Frank S. Capon Distinguished Service Award
Nicole Archibald Awarded Financial Executives International Canada’s (FEI Canada) Highest Honour Each year, Financial Executives International Canada (FEI Canada) honours one member who has contributed significantly to improving the organization. FEI Canada is delighted to announce the 2022 Frank S. Capon Distinguished Service Award has been awarded to Nicole …
Understanding The Opportunities for AI-Cameras and LiDARs for Smart Road Infrastructure
By Dr. Georges Aoude After the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) sparked a new wave of autonomous vehicles (AVs) coming to the automotive market in the next few years, much focus as of late has been on the technology of these vehicles themselves. However, the technology embedded in road infrastructure is …
Flexa Introduces Flexa Payments for Accepting Instant Digital Currency Payments from Any App
Announcing sophisticated new tools for merchants to easily accept 99+ digital currencies across twelve different blockchain networks in real-time, with zero fraud NEW YORK, NY–Flexa, the world’s leading pure-digital payments network, today introduced Flexa Payments, a new set of tools for merchants to simply and instantly accept 99 different digital …
How a GEN Z Used Lending to Build a Growth Business
By Suzan Williams Sometimes my idea of what a business will look like is totally wrong. When John Chrzanowski approached me to finance his mobile power-washing business, I envisioned he’d be spraying down houses and storefronts. He didn’t make fun of me, despite really having a much bigger vision. I …