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Finance operations
How AI is changing our finance operating model
Everyone in Finance needs to think like a builder. Here’s how we moved from distributed citizen development to a shared model for building with AI.
Pranav Sood
•6 minutes
Finance operations
Beyond the averages: How we’re using AI in Strategic Finance and FP&A
Our Head of Strategic Finance shares how his team builds AI tools to deepen analysis, test assumptions, and explore a wider range of investment choices.
Seng Chiy Goh
•5 minutes
Airwallex news
New at Airwallex: October 2026 Edition
Discover the latest product releases from Airwallex.
Shannon Scott
•3 minutes
Engineering
Why your next hire might be a finance engineer
The CFO is becoming a systems architect. Here’s why a finance engineer, half product manager and half builder, could be your next important hire.
Pranav Sood
•4 minutes
Engineering
Why your next hire might be a finance engineer
The CFO is becoming a systems architect. Here’s why a finance engineer, half product manager and half builder, could be your next important hire.
Pranav Sood
•4 minutes
Finance operations
Bold, not perfect: How Tax rebuilt itself around AI
Tax teams already let AI handle the compliance busywork. Jorge Gallardo explains why domain expertise is what lets AI work continuously and safely.
Jorge Gallardo
•5 minutes
Finance operations
24/7 Treasury: From static thresholds to programmatic rules at Airwallex
Treasury runs on rules, which makes it fertile ground for AI. Bart Verweij explains why getting the foundations right is what makes a 24/7 treasury possible.
Bart Verweij
•5 minutes
Business banking
Agentic banking starts with governance
Finance teams already let agents handle the busywork. Dan Kim explains why governance is what lets agents move money continuously and safely.
Dan Kim
•4 minutes
Finance operations
Towards a zero-day close: How Controllership scaled AI without losing control
Ralph Karsten shares how the Controllership team rebuilt its data foundation, backed citizen-built AI tools, and built the governance to scale it cleanly.
Ralph Karsten
•6 minutes
Finance operations
Building the baseline for AI transformation
We mapped nearly 600 tasks across the Finance function. The baseline showed where time was going, where automation could create the most leverage, and why peak-load bottlenecks matter more than annual hours alone.
Pranav Sood
•4 minutes
Technology
A third of CFOs have stopped expanding AI: what they're seeing that others aren't
A third of CFOs have paused AI expansion in finance. New Forrester data reveals why, and what the CFOs pulling ahead are doing differently.
Ross Weldon
•5 minutes
Technology
Building businesses people remember in the age of AI
James Hurman on why brand decides which companies scale, and how finance can put a number on it.
The Airwallex Editorial Team
•7 minutes
Finance operations
Zero-basing our finance foundations
How Airwallex rebuilt its finance data foundation so teams share trusted definitions, agents produce consistent answers, and AI can be used with confidence.
Pranav Sood
•3 minutes
Airwallex news
New at Airwallex: August 2026 Edition
Discover the latest product releases from Airwallex.
Shannon Scott
•3 minutes
Finance operations
AI has a context problem
Only 11% of finance workflows run autonomously. The bottleneck isn't AI itself. It's the data architecture underneath it.
Ross Weldon
•4 minutes
Online payments
Wero is now available on Airwallex
Start accepting Wero payments with Airwallex. Offer a bank-backed checkout experience to European customers without requiring a local entity.
Uyen Le
•3 minutes
Online payments
What the World Cup reveals about global payment infrastructure
Capacity, acceptance, risk, settlement. The 2026 World Cup found four payment infrastructure weaknesses in six weeks, and every business carries a version of each.
Ross Weldon
•5 minutes
Finance operations
The unconventional path to the CFO seat
Pranav Sood shares why his unconventional journey from strategy and general management to CFO has shaped his view of modern finance – and why today's finance leaders must be operators, strategic partners, and drivers of growth.
Pranav Sood
•3 minutes
Airwallex news
New at Airwallex: July 2026 Edition
Discover the latest product releases from Airwallex.
Shannon Scott
•3 minutes
Finance operations
The finance professional of 2027 doesn't exist yet
53% of finance leaders say skills gaps are stalling AI. The 2027 hybrid hire can't be recruited, so here's why you build one instead.
Ross Weldon
•6 minutes
Finance operations
The AI ROI question CFOs can't answer (yet)
74% of finance leaders prioritise AI, but 40% can't build the business case. Why the cost of waiting could dwarf the cost of getting it wrong.
Ross Weldon
•4 minutes
Procurement
The build vs buy dilemma: why most finance teams are hedging their bets on a hybrid model
Airwallex commissioned Forrester to survey 1,279 finance leaders globally. 51% run hybrid AI models, and the split between what they build and buy has nothing to do with capability. Here's what's driving it.
Ross Weldon
•7 minutes
Finance operations
AI reduced the work, but human oversight became the bottleneck.
AI is making finance teams faster. But results aren't showing up where it counts – and the reason has nothing to do with the tools.
Regina Lim
•5 minutes
Shannon Scott
•3 minutes