CRF Blog: Industry Highlights from the Credit Research Foundation
Is Your Company Ready for a Downturn in the Economy?
It's been 16 years since the last major economic downturn – the banking crisis that started in 2007 and was in full impact mode from 2008 through 2010. During that period, the U.S. economy shed over 8.7 million jobs, and the unemployment rate peaked at 10% in October...
Where Leadership Reigns
Is leadership a learned or a genetically inherited trait among credit professionals? I’m sure this is a topic that can be debated by some of the brightest minds in the world, but one thing can’t be debated: at the Credit Research Foundation (CRF) the brightest minds...
So, What is Changing in Your World? – Digitizing the Customer Onboarding Process
I recently sat in on the CRF educational webinar “How to Implement a Digital Credit Application” and found myself intrigued by the candid response to one of the top productivity opportunities in the B2B credit space. The speaker was Bill James from Creditsafe (CRF...
Selling the Order-to-Cash Transformation
It’s Your Job to Sell Order-to-Cash Transformation – An Outline to Begin Your Journey Through a recent CRF webinar, I had the pleasure of listening to a former credit practitioner, Sarah-Jayne Martin, share her experiences selling the need to invest in technology at...
The Portal Dilemma – Seamless A/P and A/R Integration
You Never Asked for it, or Wanted it, but YOU GOT IT! The Portal Dilemma – Seamless A/P and A/R Integration Portals.... The credit professional didn’t ask for it, but they’re here and must be dealt with. Over the past 10 years AP and AR portals have become an...
Credit Cards – Reducing the Cost of Acceptance – You hold the keys to success
The digital age continues to drive change in the accounts receivable field and today credit cards are playing an important role in the process. In fact, over 90% of businesses who participated in CRF’s recent survey indicated that credit cards are an important tool in...
Are You Secure?
The sounds of market risk continue to be played through many channels of communication, and the credit professional needs to manage and mitigate these threats to protect the organization’s major asset – its accounts receivable. So, the question is: What are credit...
Black Swan
As we embark on the new year, there’s been a renewed interest in a potential black swan event on the horizon. Historically speaking, the term gets its derivation from a Latin expression; its oldest known occurrence is from the 2nd-century Roman poet Juvenal's...
So Where is the Economy Headed? A Review of Ryo Tashiro’s Presentation
Opinions on the economy seem to be like the weather report – somewhat correct and somewhat missing the mark. What is true is that bankruptcies are up and there is more risk in the economy than we have seen in the past several years. CRF was fortunate to have Ryo...
Navigating the Credit Network Maze: Do’s and Don’ts for Sharing Customer Information
As a seasoned commercial credit risk practitioner, I've witnessed firsthand the invaluable benefits of cultivating a robust network beyond organizational boundaries, courtesy of credit networks. These networks, tailored for credit professionals and often specializing...