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Capital Rules Everything Around Me: The Making of a Reserve Currency

There can be misunderstandings about what qualifies the US dollar to be the global reserve currency. In the last few years, this subject has been kicked around, with the rise of the BRICS trading bloc and rumoured decline in the petrodollar system.

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By Cross-Border
Sep 1, 2025
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Financial Risk, FX Hedging, and Hedge Accounting: Part 01
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Financial Risk, FX Hedging, and Hedge Accounting: Part 01

Risk management is a process of identifying sources of risk and assessing potential impact while keeping stakeholder goals and risk tolerances in mind. In our two-part podcast, we chat about the sources of financial risk, and the many ways to hedge it.

Data Governance in the Payments Industry
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Data Governance in the Payments Industry

Simply speaking, data governance focuses on managing data effectively. Data governance is effective when there are clear policies, sound processes, well-defined roles, effective controls in place, and constant oversight that ensures accountability.

Axios: Big America hedge affects dollar's global standing

Axios: Big America hedge affects dollar's global standing

The dollar index peaked when President Trump was inaugurated. But it has since "fallen farther, faster than in any year since the U.S. abandoned fixed exchange rates," Karl Schamotta, a currency strategist at payments firm Corpay, tells Axios.

What Keeps CFOs Up at Night?
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What Keeps CFOs Up at Night?

Most macroeconomic and geopolitical issues are beyond the control of individual businesses, complicating their future planning. This piece gives insight into what is on CFOs' minds as they navigate global currency markets.

CNBC: Dollar lowest since 2021 against euro, gains on yen

CNBC: Dollar lowest since 2021 against euro, gains on yen

Investors "are choosing to interpret Fed Chair Jerome Powell's Congressional testimony to mean that the central bank is laying the groundwork for an early-autumn rate cut," said Karl Schamotta, chief market strategist at Corpay in Toronto.

Financial Post: Headwinds could still topple Canadian dollar

Financial Post: Headwinds could still topple Canadian dollar

Loonie at risk of losing [some of its] 2025 gains: Corpay chief market strategist Karl Schamotta talks with the Financial Post’s Larysa Harapyn about the trajectories of the Canadian dollar and the U.S. greenback

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