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Increased Risk and Global TradeFind out how a collaborative and partnership approach to international trade can help ease the recent slow down in the movement of goods and services. Author: Mike McDonough
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Recent Trends in Trade Payment ServicesThere are places at the trade table for both letters of credit and open account. Author: John Hogan
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How Fit is Today's Healthcare Provider's Financial Back Office?It's no secret that today's healthcare providers face immense obstacles in trying to contain the exorbitant costs of running an efficient patient financial services operation. As part of their attempts to do so without impeding the quality of patient services, efforts to overhaul patient claims and payment processing systems to accommodate electronic remittances stand out for their extreme cost-savings potential. Author: Rose Wojciechowski
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Chindia: The Emerging and Merging of Two Asian GiantsAs the world's largest developing nations, China and India continue to fuel Asia's economic growth, which the Asia Development Bank estimates at 7.6 percent for 2008. The rise of these two giants within the global economy has led to healthy competition between the two countries. But as their economies emerge, they also are finding common ground from which to cooperate. Learn more about the changing dynamic towards cooperation. Authors: Aneish Kumar, S.W. Chu
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Alleviating Patient Refunds Doesn't Have to be PainfulAs medical providers continue the now-standard practice of collecting payments directly from patients at the time services are rendered, healthcare organizations are encountering a new and unprecedented roadblock to back office productivity and profitability. It's the highly manual and time-consuming process involved in issuing refund checks. Author: Maureen Turo
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An Evolution in Business-to-Business PaymentsThe number of checks being processed has diminished but the amount of paper that accompanies business payments continues to escalate. Is your wholesale lockbox solution keeping up with the times? Author: Blaine Carnprobst
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Investing Through the Liquidity CrisisShort-term investing is a critical function of most treasury departments. Investors work to preserve principal and maintain liquidity as their primary goals while also attempting to maximize returns generated on their excess cash as a secondary goal. Historically, treasury and other short-term investors have viewed money market mutual funds as safe havens to invest their excess liquidity. Author: Kirk Black
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Payables Trends: Optimizing Your Process in a Mixed Payments EnvironmentIn a day and age where electronic payments have proven reliable and timely, should paper checks still be this prevalent? Or, should companies be using more electronic transactions? If you still rely heavily on checks, are you missing opportunities to optimize your payments process? Author: Eric Kamback
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Rethinking Best Practices in a Changing Payments LandscapeSending and receiving payments in today's business economy has evolved into a complex set of processes that increasingly relies upon the successful interdependence of multiple players on a global scale. Much like a kaleidoscope that shifts each of its internal parts, the constant motion of the payments landscape, as directed by industry trends, regulatory mandates and client needs, affects how organizations and providers within the industry must continually adjust processes in response to that movement. Author: Al Briand
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Shifting the Paradigm: How Outsourcing Can Help Prevent Healthcare's Financial Processing AilmentsAs the burdens that weigh heavily on healthcare providers continually increase in number and complexity, no aspect of a healthcare organization's operation is spared. The steady rise in costs -- that drive the demand for tighter expense management and process efficiencies -- have impacted all internal areas, and the financial/accounting office is no exception. Author: Maureen Turo
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