If cash is king, uncertainty is the usurper. And from ongoing geopolitical struggles to a dynamic global macroeconomic environment, all the way to election year volatility in the U.S., uncertainty remains an invisible expense on nearly every company’s ledger. Against this backdrop, finance teams are...
The PNC Financial Services Group and the TCW Group have formalized and expanded their partnership to develop a private credit platform focused on middle market lending. The companies aim to have $2.5 billion in investor equity capital available in the platform’s first year, and expect investment activity...
Many middle-market businesses operate in a world of heightened uncertainty, but PYMNTS Intelligence data found that payment solutions such as virtual cards can help mitigate that uncertainty. This is one key takeaway from PYMNTS Intelligence’s recently released edition of the 2024 Certainty Project Report, “Optimizing...
Concerns about inflation and the potential for another interest rate hike are only increasing the fierce levels of uncertainty corporate CFOs must now navigate — and that uncertainty comes at a high cost. And, as PYMNTS Intelligence found in completing its “2024 Certainty Project Report,”...
February 25, 2025
Procurement fraud has evolved on the back of digitally sophisticated tactics from an occasional business headache into a full-blown financial and reputational disaster for organizations worldwide. It’s no longer just a paper problem; the issue is moving from the back office to the boardroom. “We have to change our mindset,” Michael van Keulen, industry principal, […]
April 15, 2024
The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region contributed roughly two-thirds of global growth last year. PYMNTS Intelligence recently studied Growth Corporates, or mid-market firms, in the APAC region to determine how they leveraged...
April 02, 2024
According to PYMNTS Intelligence’s inaugural edition of “The 2024 Certainty Project Report,” uncertainty costs middle-market companies more than $20 million on average, per these firms’ CFOs. The 2024 Certainty Project...
February 13, 2024
The adoption of external working capital solutions has surged among growth corporates — commonly referred to as middle-market firms — in North America. This trend is driven by these solutions’...
May 06, 2024
The PNC Financial Services Group and the TCW Group have formalized and expanded their partnership to develop a private credit platform focused on middle market lending. The companies aim to have $2.5 billion in investor equity capital available in the platform’s first year, and expect investment activity to begin in the fall, they said in a Monday […]
