Finance’s new mandate: Unlocking the story behind the numbers

AI is making it easier for finance to connect the dots, but better forecasting still depends on people who understand the business, tech executive Mike Nader writes.

By Mike Nader • July 14, 2026

Fintech Bottomline offers stablecoin-friendly CFO suite

The company is betting stablecoins will gain traction across corporate payment, treasury and liquidity workflows.

By Alexei Alexis • July 14, 2026

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Top 5 stories from CFO Dive

To stay competitive many CFOs are focused on balancing AI’s risks and opportunities while also adjusting to fast-changing tariff policies and labor markets.

By CFO Dive staff

The IPO readiness gaps digital asset firms should focus on

Digital asset IPOs require more than growth. Here’s where readiness gaps emerge.

By Adam Perotta • July 13, 2026

The hours behind the numbers: What finance leaders gain when the manual work disappears

CFOs see what is possible when AI absorbs the operational burden.

By Emily Fowler • July 13, 2026

PepsiCo CFO says tariff refund will help offset inflation

“We do expect some more pressure on the business from a commodity standpoint,” CFO Steve Schmitt said on an earnings call.

By Alexei Alexis • July 10, 2026

7 CFO risks from the high-stakes adoption of AI

“There’s a risk of losing people who don’t want to innovate or who are scared of how this plays out,” Nintex CFO Burt Chao said.

By Jim Tyson • July 10, 2026

AI, M&A demands test CFOs as dealmaking rebounds: Bain

CFOs face a “big capital allocation question” as some of their M&A ambitions and AI priorities collide, Bain’s Suzanne Kumar said.

By Alexei Alexis • July 9, 2026

Peril and promise: The high-stakes CFO challenge of AI adoption

CFOs are in danger of falling prey to bated-breath predictions of how AI will transform humankind more profoundly than prior bold leaps in technology.

By Jim Tyson • July 9, 2026

Finance salaries rise 6% amid talent crunch: Controllers Council

Competitive pay ranks as the top strategy organizations are using to attract and retain finance professionals.

By Alexei Alexis • July 8, 2026

AlphaSense CFO talks metrics, hiring and consumption-based pricing

The company is delivering hypergrowth at scale, which requires CFO Samantha Greenberg to be more thoughtful about key metrics, she said.

By Grace Noto • July 8, 2026

Digital ID and payments turn to your face

As mobile devices and government regulators embrace facial recognition technology, your face is becoming both wallet and identification.

By Justin Bachman • July 7, 2026

SpaceX acquisition target launches CFO council to crack AI’s ROI puzzle

The effort by AI coding platform Cursor is aimed at achieving a shared framework for making AI investments “more measurable, predictable and efficient.”

By Alexei Alexis • July 7, 2026

Data ‘tollgating’ compounds SaaS cost headaches for CFOs

Organizations are getting stuck with unexpected IT costs as the data they thought they owned is being sold back to them by vendors, Deloitte said.

By Alexei Alexis • July 7, 2026

Tech accounts for nearly a third of US layoffs in H1: Challenger

Sector job cuts jumped 83% from January through June on a year-over-year basis as AI rattles the workforce.

By Alexei Alexis • July 1, 2026

Anthropic tie-up is a ‘step change,’ KPMG exec says

KPMG announced a global alliance with Anthropic in May, shortly after the AI giant lauched new Claude financial agents.  

By Maura Webber Sadovi • June 30, 2026

Before turning tax work over to AI, ask these 4 questions

AI-fueled errors can be polished and seemingly authoritative — making them especially treacherous in accounting, writes Thomson Reuters’ David Wong.

By David Wong • June 30, 2026

Firms with concrete AI strategies beat peers in stock gains, study finds

Investors tend to reward companies that set clear and quantified AI objectives over those relying on vague narratives, according to the analysis.

By Alexei Alexis • June 30, 2026

Autonomous FP&A is here. Is your governance infrastructure ready?

A key question for CFOs: with AI playing an increasing role in decision-making, what is the impact on accountability?

June 29, 2026

Why finance teams keep stalling on digital transformation

The gap between ambition and execution is real, but it's not inevitable.

June 29, 2026

Microsoft beefs up Copilot in Excel for finance work

New Copilot features let finance teams teach it how to perform recurring spreadsheet-heavy tasks.

By Alexei Alexis • June 26, 2026

AI cost challenges mount as agent use gets more complex: KPMG

Only 26% of organizations have real-time visibility into the cost of running AI at scale, the research found.

By Alexei Alexis • June 25, 2026

Maxima rolls out AI agent for enterprise accounting

The San Mateo, California-based company’s new “Max” handles a range of work including payroll entries previously managed by multiple AI agents. 

By Maura Webber Sadovi • June 23, 2026

From unpaid CFO gigs to scaling an AI robotics startup

Bas Lustenhouwer once worked for free to break into startup finance — a path that ultimately led him to the CFO seat at AI robotics firm Dexory.

By Alexei Alexis • June 23, 2026

CFOs lag in AI readiness as ROI pressures rise: EY

Most finance leaders still favor “defensive” AI use cases such as fraud detection over growth-focused ones like forecasting or pricing, the study found.

By Alexei Alexis • June 23, 2026

Frontier Climate adds Anthropic to buyers group, makes new financing pledge

The company behind AI tool Claude joins the carbon removal purchasing group, which also announced $915 million in new financing commitments.

By Lamar Johnson • June 22, 2026