This session will be held LIVE via Zoom on Tuesday, August 17, at 2:00pm ET.

Presented by Serrala

Do you want to know how you can get the most out of your accounts receivable management? In a more agile, post-pandemic world, re-entering offices vs. staying remote will define work just as much as the ongoing digital transformation within finance organizations. Optimizing your processes with the help of automation and digitization is crucial in order to maximize the skills of your employees and protect your business from customer credit and default risk.

In this session we will elaborate on how technology – ranging from automated data sourcing and process automation all the way to artificial intelligence and machine learning – can drive efficiency in AR, while still putting human contribution and judgement at its core, ensuring humans and technology work together for the best possible results.

Presented by Michael Colasurdo

In the digital era, harnessing data can be the difference between staying ahead or falling behind. Traditional report factories are rapidly becoming obsolete. Enterprise organizations are shifting to self-service analytics and looking for a sustainable, yet long-term approach to governance that satisfies the needs of both the business and IT. The Business needs real-time access to data to drive critical decisions. IT needs to audit and manage data to ensure it’s accurate, secure, and governed to scale. With only 8% of people in traditional organizations able to both ask and answer their own questions, it’s time to take a closer look at your analytics strategy to understand the extent to which your organization is embracing a data culture to make a difference to your own business outcomes.

Presented by Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones

COVID-19 turned the world upside down in 2020 and as we are now well into 2021, there remains a lot of uncertainty for senior credit professionals who are charged with loss prevention and mitigation. This program will have both senior lawyers who are nationally recognized in creditor rights and senior credit professionals focus on current hot topics including discussing the current economic outlook for the remainder of 2021 and into 2022, with a specific focus on certain “at risk” industries. They will then discuss the mechanics and risks of claim trading, including the various clawback provisions that may be (but should not be) overlooked. Lastly, the senior credit professionals will explain their strategy of serving on a creditors’ committees and the “real experience” of being “under the tent” in a bankruptcy case.

1. Current Economic Outlook
2. Industries to Watch: Restaurants, Movie Theaters, Travel/Leisure and Healthcare
3. Claims Trading
4. Stepping up to the Plate: Inside Look of Sitting on a Creditors’ Committee

Presented by Experian

This session will be held LIVE via Zoom on Wednesday, August 18, at 2:00pm ET.

Learn how the accelerated digital environment has brought new challenges for businesses. The improvement of fraud detection in consumer transactions has brought fraudsters to the commercial market. This discussion will focus on combatting that challenge.

Key takeaways from this session:

• Learn more about emerging commercial fraud trends due to the recent economic conditions and rapid digitization and what Experian is seeing in our own data to support the looming threats
• Find out the differences and similarities between consumer and commercial fraud, and how to quickly stand-up a commercial fraud strategy
• Discover which solutions are applicable in a commercial fraud strategy and areas where you should think differently

Presented by Cortera

COVID brought light to deficiencies in traditional credit analysis methods, accelerating credit review cycles and increasing the need for innovation in terms of data source and analytical methods. This session explores the use of nontraditional credit data to identify risk faster and more accurately than ever before and illuminates how the business of risk assessment is transforming as we emerge from the pandemic.

In this session, you will learn how to:

• Apply the lessons learned during COVID to create innovation in your risk assessment process
• Access unique insights about your customers by analyzing nontraditional data sources across your portfolio
• Identify risk faster and more accurately than ever before
• Formulate strategies for prioritizing collections to reduce the impact of negative performance (DSO, charge-offs, default)

Presented by Rapid Ratings

Session description coming soon.

Presented by Cortera

Creditworthiness is difficult enough to gauge during times of economic stability. With the post-pandemic world, trade patterns are shifting. As these patterns change, so does the creditworthiness across geographies, sectors and individual businesses. These changes are forcing credit risk experts to adapt to a new credit risk environment where the traditional approach to analysis just isn’t enough.

In order to adapt to this new credit risk environment, credit risk experts need to adopt an integrated approach to risk assessment. Integrated risk assessment is about concurrently evaluating all upside and downside factors – not just the usual financial considerations, but all considerations that can make an entity a desirable or undesirable trade partner. Knowing who you trade with calls for impeccable entity data. This session explores the how global specialized data, scores and integrated risk assessment models can help you assess and review companies more effectively, improve accuracy and spot risk more quickly.

In this session you will learn how to:

• Use specialized data to compare and benchmark companies across industries and borders;
• Monitor companies for change and automatically trigger reviews;
• Interpret data quickly using integrated risk assessment models for faster and more accurate risk assessment

Presented by Dun & Bradstreet

Using ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) as a business metric isn’t just a trend; falling behind the curve can result in significant damage to a company in the form of reputational risk, operational disruptions, and financial implications. Climate change, COVID-19, unprecedented media transparency, and resource constraints challenge the stability of even the longest-established enterprises. Finance and risk leaders are in a good position to turn ESG data and metrics into strategic advantage. And there’s a direct link between a company’s ESG rankings and overall performance – a striking insight, invaluable in efforts to strengthen business resilience following the pandemic.

Join experts from Dun & Bradstreet, a leading global provider of business decisioning data and analytics, to explore:

• Why ESG is a critical and valued source of information for finance leaders and how it can be harnessed for better credit and collections decisions;
• The strategic advantage ESG unlocks, resulting in stronger business performance, profitability, and growth;
• How to obtain and use ESG metrics to mitigate portfolio risk and protect your company’s reputation and brand

The Open Forum session will take place on Thursday, 8/19/21, from 12:00 – 1:30pm EDT.

This session provides attendees an opportunity for peer-to-peer exchange of information, needs and experiences. It is always a favorite session among attendees!