Blog
Please select
Please select
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
Shannon Scott
•3 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
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
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
Business banking
Agentic Business Accounts: the hub for your global financial operations
Manage global finances in one place with Airwallex Business Accounts. Organise funds, move money, manage FX, and use your preferred AI agent to automate workflows.
Shannon Scott
•4 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
Business banking
Rethinking the ‘investment product’ label: A modern approach to corporate cash management
Airwallex's Laurens Maartens explores why treasury teams may need to rethink the 'investment product' label and consider money market funds a practical tool for managing surplus cash.
Laurens Maartens
•6 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
Working capital
The silent drain: Why SMEs are leaving billions on the table in idle cash
Discover why idle cash is costing European SMEs thousands each year, how banks profit from your inaction, and three simple treasury strategies to put your EUR, USD, and GBP balances to work in 2026.
Laurens Maartens
•6 minutes
Billing
France’s new e-invoicing law: What SMEs need to do now to keep cash moving
From September 2026, SMEs will need to be able to receive structured invoices before they are required to issue them in 2027. Find out how to prepare your data and systems to avoid rejections and payment delays.
Alexandre Huin
•6 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
Shannon Scott
•3 minutes
Technology
E-invoicing is becoming mandatory around the world
Governments are turning invoices into structured data. Here's what's changing, why it matters, and how to prepare for it.
The Airwallex Editorial Team
•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
Technology
How to implement AI in finance: Where to start and what to avoid
Learn how to implement AI in finance. Find out how to get started, how to measure success, and why unified financial infrastructure matters for real results.
Ross Weldon
•8 minutes
Technology
The real value of AI in analytics isn’t just answering questions. It’s closing the decision loop.
"Talking to your data" is one part of what AI can do. But the real value of AI in analytics isn’t just answering questions – it’s closing the decision loop.
Timothy Wong
•5 minutes
Online payments
The trade rewiring: How businesses are using payment data to find new markets
Trade corridors are shifting faster than strategy cycles can follow. Here's how to use payment data to spot new markets, test demand, and protect margins.
Ross Weldon
•6 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
Shannon Scott
•3 minutes