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Webinar: Driving Savings To Your Bottom Line - Through Commercial Card Best Practices (On Demand)

Robert O'Connor — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 04:25:00 GMT

Robert O'Connor

This webinar covers the use of card solutions to save time, enable cash flow efficiencies, empower your workforce, and optimize your purchasing capabilities to drive savings to the bottom line.

Webinar: Overcoming Payment Hurdles: Solutions For Saving Time And Streamlining Processes (On Demand)

Bryan Laws — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:13:43 GMT

Bryan Laws

For growing businesses, managing accounts payable can demand a significant amount of time and resources while providing little operational visibility and control. Our panel discussion offers advice on streamlining and payment processes, improving operational efficiencies and increasing security defenses against fraud. Read More

Financing a Company the Startup Way

Scott Bergquist — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:26:26 GMT

Scott Bergquist

Self-funding capital needs by aggressively managing cash and front-loading revenues — thereby removing the need for outside equity capital — is an attractive way to finance a business’s growth. Read More

Webinar: Accelerate Your Business with Credit Card Programs

Pradeep Moudgal — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:35:00 GMT

Pradeep Moudgal

Many businesses underutilize commercial credit card capabilities. Read More

Online Seminar: Are You at Risk: How You Can Protect Your Company From Business Account Fraud

Tim Toller — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:24:18 GMT

Tim Toller

presentation, Tim Toller and Jason Kobus, senior online channel managers at Silicon Valley Bank, will outline a few essential preventative steps that can help protect online accounts and prevent transactional fraud. Read More

Online Seminar: How You Can Protect Your Company From Business Account Fraud

Tim Toller — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:00:00 GMT

Tim Toller

We've all heard about the threat that fraud activity places on business. As fraud continues to become more sophisticated, it's more important than ever to stay informed. In this free online seminar, we cover the scope of the problem, examine specific attacks and the recommended strategies to protect your company against online banking and transactional fraud. Read More

The Untapped Benefits of Business Credit Cards

Pradeep Moudgal — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:22:24 GMT

Pradeep Moudgal

Personal credit cards have become ubiquitous among consumers, and electronic payment is now a standard in business finance. Yet many U.S. companies continue to pay their bills the old fashioned way — by writing checks ...

Banking Integration: Optimizing Cash Management

Patrick Steiner — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:55:53 GMT

Patrick Steiner

In today’s dynamic business environment, fast-moving companies want cash management tools that allow them to streamline operations, improve internal controls, and better manage liquidity. Read More

Protecting Your Company from ACH Fraud

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:40:00 GMT

The use of the Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments is an excellent model for effective, efficient and low cost disbursements and collections. Read More

New Report Indicates that Cyber Attacks are Focused on Two Key Vulnerabilities

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:45:00 GMT

According to a new report, "The Top Cyber Security Risks", jointly issued by security vendors TippingPoint and Qualys, as well as the Internet Storm Center and SANS Institute, more than half of current cyber attacks against businesses and government agencies are focused on two common vulnerabilities. Read More

Knowledge is Power

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:00:00 GMT

Knowledge-based authentication — using personal information from databases instead of predetermined security questions — is supposed to be more resistant to phishing. In response, fraudsters have turned their phishing efforts to the databases themselves. Unlike the security questions users choose when they enroll, KBA questions do not ask them to name their favorite movie or high school mascot. "These are those questions where you have to scratch your head and jog your memory, i.e., what was that first car you drove, what year was your mother in fact born [she didn't like to talk about it]," and so on, Avivah Litan, a vice president and distinguished analyst at the Stamford, Conn., market research company Gartner Inc., wrote on her blog June 17. Since these questions are not known to the user ahead of time, they are supposedly more difficult for bad guys to predict. But in ... Read More

Holdback Escrows: Security Against the Unpredictable

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:45:00 GMT

As the economy rebounds and more companies are taking an optimistic view of their future growth, the conditions are ripe for merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions among public and private companies alike. And with the appetite for buying and selling, especially in such volatile economic times, comes a need to protect vigilantly against risk for acquirers and their shareholders.The “holdback” escrow is the preferred way to mitigate risk while facilitating a smooth transaction when whole companies or company assets change hands. In a holdback escrow, the company selling assets places a portion of the transaction cost into an escrow account, where the funds remain until certain conditions are met. The escrow acts as security against unforeseen purchase price adjustments or indemnification claims. Download the article (PDF) Read More

Top Online Banking Security Tips

Silicon Valley Bank — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:51:01 GMT

Online banking creates great efficiencies. But just as in the physical world, there are people who attempt to exploit systems for gain. The greatest vulnerabilities in electronic banking tend to occur within banking client systems—and often can be countered through simple steps. Some of our top tips follow. Read More

Global Expansion Forum: Best Practices for Expanding Business Overseas

Laurence Hayward — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:16:40 GMT

Laurence Hayward

See a replay of our recent Web seminar, "Global Expansion Forum: Best Practices for Expanding Business Overseas." The seminar, by Silicon Valley Bank and High Street Partners, provides helpful information on such topics as: Common pitfalls when expanding into a new country Cross border tax considerations L

Out of the Branch and Into Your Office: The Benefits of Remote Deposit Capture

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Remote deposit capture can help you streamline your collection processes and deposit customer payments faster and more efficiently. Read More

Making the Most of your Collections: Moving to E-payments, Part 2

Linda Coven — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:00:00 GMT

Learn about the strategic benefits of electronic payments. The article demystifies the process of moving to this model, so that corporations can accelerate cash flow, reduce administrative overhead, improve reporting and compliance. Read More

Corporate Cash Management In Turbulent Times

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:00:00 GMT

Companies face unprecedented challenges managing their cash reserves due to the recent turmoil in the financial markets. Read More

Cash Management: How Companies Can Safely Make the Most of Capital on Hand

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:00:00 GMT

The massive disruption to the investment markets that was triggered by the demise of auction rate securities, the subprime debacle, and the financial sector deterioration and bailout hit many companies hard this year. Read More

Gain 21st Century Efficiencies: Make the Move to E-payments

Linda Coven — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Some 30 years ago the pundits began stating that we were moving to a "Checkless Society." Read More