CFO optimism dims in the short term, U.S. Bank survey shows

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  The war in the Middle East sends the confidence level skidding to a near-record low.

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  April earnings update: Apple, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, Tesla, Netflix

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  Orleans Parish CFO faces charges in the wake of May 2025 jailbreak

  Louisiana’s attorney general has charged Bianka Brown, finance chief of the New Orleans sheriff’s office, with malfeasance in office and obstruction of justice in relation to the escape of 10 inmates last year.

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  The 6 a.m. CFO: How Trintech’s Omar Choucair starts his day

  The fintech CFO says he begins his mornings with music instead of coffee, cycles 1,800 miles a year and shares a favorite number with George Costanza. 

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  Just 28% of finance pros see finance AI tools delivering measurable results

  Larger finance departments view their return on artificial intelligence as even less impactful than smaller ones do.

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  Financial trade group creates stablecoin certificate for treasury

  The Association for Financial Professionals has partnered with fintech Kyriba on a new stablecoin certificate course aimed at addressing a “critical gap facing finance and treasury leaders today.”

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  Innovative financing essential to decarbonizing fashion industry: H&M and EY

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  Suppliers to AI companies are big winners of spending surge

  Many of the most successful players in the AI arena, such as CoreWeave, Nvidia and AMD, are making the chips and memory modules that make the technology possible.

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  SEC says real estate firm’s ex-CFO ran a ‘Ponzi-like’ scheme: Trial Balance

  John Giarmarco, formerly the finance chief of Voyager Pacific Capital Management, was charged with fraud along with two other executives.

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  CFOs fear health benefit costs are ticking up unsustainably

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  CFOs On the Move: Week ending April 24

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  Prudential hits pause on new sales at Japanese subsidiary

  The insurer’s CFO Yanela Frias maintained that Prudential of Japan “will emerge as a stronger, more resilient business that is better positioned to serve consumers.”

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  Finance functions ramp up internal AI budgets

  The key to generating value from artificial intelligence projects within finance is scaling them to full production, according to a new Bain & Co. report. 

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  Tariffs become a ‘permanent planning assumption’ for US execs

  Despite a major legal setback from the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year, tariffs are still a big consideration in executives’ scenario planning, according to a recent PwC survey.

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  The best AI model still fails 1 in 5 accounting tasks

  DualEntry’s CFO unveils insights from testing 19 AI models on 101 accounting tasks to evaluate their accuracy and efficiency. The results, he writes, “should concern CFOs buying into the hype.”

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  A small business CFO’s 10-point checklist before selling the company

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  Your CFO is already your chief risk officer

  In the world of family offices, finance chiefs are uniquely positioned to integrate financial and operational signals into a practical risk management framework.

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  New York dispensary brand execs on the nuances of cannabis financing

  Finance chief Roy Cysner and CEO Paul Yau aim to grow their luxury cannabis brand, The Travel Agency, in a complex regulatory environment with limited access to traditional credit.  

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  Georgia biotech CFO found liable for Stanford professor’s ‘malicious arrest’: Trial Balance

  A jury has returned a verdict against medical device maker Chemence, its CFO and two other executives.

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