How Top CFOs See 2024 Unfolding and What They’re Doing About GenAI
By Juan Uro Finance executives remain vigilant, keeping a close eye on interest rates and inflation, while also exploring generative AI applications. In an EY roundtable, CFOs overwhelmingly show caution and prudence (but not pessimism) about 2024, while awaiting clarity on interest rates and inflation. All CFOs are doing something …
A New Perspective: The Shift in Payment Trends Through the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Stephen Yun On May 4, 2023, the World Health Organization downgraded the COVID-19 pandemic, declaring that it was now an established and ongoing health issue that no longer constituted a public health emergency of international concern. Following this decision, the Public Health Agency of Canada stated that it would …
M&A Trends for Canadian Asset Managers: BLG’s Observations and Insights Looking Ahead to 2024
Canadian asset management deal trends By: Julie Mansi, Ben Keen, Andrew McLean The Canadian wealth and asset management industry continues to be attractive for M&A transactions with significant premiums paid for asset managers. During 2023, there was more interest in quality wealth and asset managers than there were asset …
Treasury Technology Trends in 2024: How APIs, AI, and RPA change the treasury landscape?
By Barbara Babati An exciting era for treasury is coming. Treasury is developing at a rapid pace, and like in other industries, the names of new emerging technologies are popping up here and there. It’s only natural though – for the last decade, we have been talking about digital transformation …
Treasury Trends 2024: Can We Learn from New Zealand’s Insights?
A conversational roundtable on the role of treasury and the key trends impacting trends in treasury for the upcoming year and onwards featured four individuals who looked at how this management function and the challenges and opportunities are impacting that country. And Total Finance magazine thought it an interesting and …
A Preview of 2024: 10 Trends That GCs and Boards Need to Know
By Aaron Atkinson, Andrew Mihalik, Marc Pontone and Brett Seifred In this article, we explore 10 important trends that should be of interest to general counsel and boards in their strategic and compliance planning. 1 | Boards Should Expect Continued Attention from Activists As we discussed in our article on …
Locking the Piggy Bank: Keeping Prying Hands Out in 2024
Top 2024 Cybersecurity Priorities revealed in a new report by Info-Tech Research Group Staff Info-Tech’s Security Priorities 2024 report delves into the pressing issues that IT and security leaders must prioritize over the coming year, including the cybersecurity talent shortage, the rise of AI-driven threats, the integration of security …
Seven Levers to Business Value Creation
Considerations for Creating and Preserving Value By Alison Glober, Duncan Law, Bruno Artristian and David Francescucci We’re dealing with several headwinds in the current environment, from soaring inflation and interest rates to ongoing supply chain issues that are creating the conditions for a potential economic slowdown. Combined with global …
Millennials Weighed Down by Financial Worries: RBC Poll
By Craig Bannon With the oldest Millennials now into their 40s, RBC and Ipsos recently conducted research to ask this generation (ages 27 to 42) how they were feeling about their finances today and for the future. What our annual RBC Financial Independence Poll showed us is that Millennials are …
Graph-Based Data Models: Unleashing The Power of Data-Driven Insights
By Rab Govil The world is currently in an era of digital transformation, where information flows abundantly. And banks are realizing that data-driven insights—which help deliver a best in class customer experience—aren’t just a competitive advantage but a necessity for sustainable growth. In fact, in 2022, WBR Insights found that …