A boat or personal watercraft collision is a stark reminder of how quickly a medical emergency turns into a financial one. When rescue crews arrive, the focus centers entirely on saving lives; emergency hospital bills are only the beginning of a long financial recovery. Emergency transport alone can generate significant debt before follow-up care begins—especially…
Liquidity relief today, balance-sheet strain tomorrow: The very structures that make private credit nimble—PIK loans—could also mask risk until it’s too late. When GoHealth Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on June 7, the writing had been on the wall for two years. The Chicago-based health insurance marketplace had inked a payment-in-kind (PIK) deal…
Why Disconnected Finance Workflows Weaken Salesforce Accounting Integration An Order is ready in Salesforce. The customer details, products, prices, payment terms, and billing address are already there. Yet finance still opens another system, copies the same information, checks the VAT treatment, uploads the invoice file, and prepares the data for DATEV. This handoff may seem…
Baskar Subramanian, CEO of Vaultura, parent company of cross-border payments and settlements platforms Mobi and Canis, on why linking ASEAN’s national QR systems is real progress, and why it leaves the region’s harder problem untouched. Five founding members of ASEAN’s Regional Payment Connectivity initiative, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand have now completed the…
The “family fight” over setting the Fed Funds Rate that Federal Reserve Board Chairman Kevin Warsh has desired resulted in the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) maintaining its current 3.5% to 3.75% target at the second meeting under his leadership. “I asked for a good family fight, and I got one,” he said at Wednesday’s…
Picking the wrong forex trading platform can cost more than a bad trade. Slow execution, unclear fees, weak regulation, or poor support can all affect your results before you even build a proper strategy. In 2026, traders are not just looking for access to currency pairs. They need platforms that help them act quickly, manage…
Whether driven by retirements or re-configuration, the insurance industry is scrambling for tech talent. This article appears in the July/August issue of Global Finance Magazine. Caught between a wave of retirements and a weak talent pipeline short on tech-savvy candidates, the insurance industry faces a talent shortage that could affect its ability to address cyber…
Few tasks divide business owners like the accounts. Some love the detail; most quietly dread it. As a company grows, that tension only sharpens. The real question stops being whether you can keep doing the books yourself, and becomes whether you should. Outsourcing the accounts can free your time and sharpen your finances, but only…
To become a financial hub, the sultanate needs the infrastructure that a major custodian can provide. U.S. custody giant State Street is expanding into Oman, a vote of confidence in the Gulf’s smallest aspiring financial center. At the Oman Capital Market Conference in Muscat in early June, the bank signed an agreement with Riyadh-based Jadwa…
Flexible pricing is now at the center of software revenue strategy. Buyers expect charges to reflect actual consumption, while finance teams still need dependable invoices, clear records, and consistent reporting. That combination exposes the limits of fixed subscription systems. Usage-based billing software gives companies a practical way to connect product activity with revenue, so pricing…