Finance & Treasury Without Borders with Sokin

Contributed by Sokin

Faster payments don’t solve treasury complexity. They amplify it.

Modern finance teams can move money across the world in seconds. The challenge is knowing when to move it, where to move it, and in which currency.

This whitepaper explores how leading CFOs are building a treasury advantage through greater visibility, smarter liquidity management, and more connected financial operations.

Key takeaways:

Why faster payments can make poor treasury decisions more expensive
The hidden capital efficiency cost of fragmented banking, treasury, and FX operations
How leading CFOs are turning cash visibility into a competitive advantage
What comes next: decision intelligence, Agentic Finance, and borderless liquidity

Download the whitepaper to see how CFOs gain a treasury advantage.

About Sokin

Sokin removes the borders, barriers, and burdens of international payments.

Sokin exists to support businesses in succeeding on the global stage by removing friction from international trade. It has brought together exceptional financial and technical talent from across the globe to create products that empower clients at home and abroad. Sokin strives to build what’s next in global payments and banking.

To learn more, visit www.sokin.com.

From Data Chaos to Secure Governance with Congruity360

Contributed by Congruity360

Most organizations know they have a data problem — what they lack is visibility into where sensitive information lives and how it’s being managed. This article explores how a leading enterprise transformed its approach to unstructured data security, governance, and compliance by reducing risk, automating data management, and shrinking its cyber attack surface.

Read the full article here.

About Congruity360

Gathering unstructured data is simple, but managing it effectively is more challenging. Our partners at Congruity360 simplify the unstructured data governance and management process into six steps to transform your files into Smart Data, ensuring their safety and reducing costs. Discover the only true end-to-end solution for your unstructured data with Congruity360.

To learn more, visit congruity360.com.

Antoinette Irvine, Former CHRO, Unilever Global Operations at Unilever, Keynotes Our Transformational CHRO Assembly Europe September 9-10 in Amsterdam!

The Millennium Alliance is excited to announce that Antoinette Irvine, Former CHRO, Unilever Global Operations at Unilever, will keynote our Transformational CHRO Assembly Europe September 9-10 at The Novotel Amsterdam City in Amsterdam.

Interested in joining this Assembly? Click here to request an invite

About Antoinette Irvine

Antoinette Irvine believes HR partnering has a pivotal role to play in helping businesses succeed by enabling the right talent, culture, and organizational strategy to support business vision and goals.

She is driven to empower those around her, enabling the leaders of tomorrow while fostering an inclusive and diverse culture through open, insightful, and high-trust dialogue. Having held numerous international roles across diverse geographies, Antoinette has developed a deep passion for understanding different cultures and teams, and for adapting HR strategies to drive the change organizations need.

She believes it is essential to assess the culture and capability of teams and leadership, alongside the business and commercial environment, to drive real, sustainable, and meaningful change. For Antoinette, people are the differentiating factor in future success.

Given the pace and urgency of transformation, Antoinette believes organizations too often overinvest in the “hardware” of business while underinvesting in the “software”—their people and the change management needed to succeed. She emphasizes the importance of balancing investment in technology and machinery with investment in developing the people and capabilities required for the future.

Crosscap’s DistroPRO Wins the 2026 Pinnacle Award for Technology

Contributed by Crosscap

Crosscap is proud to announce that DistroPRO has won the 2026 Pinnacle Award in the Technology category, presented by PRINTING United Alliance.

The Pinnacle Award recognizes the most innovative products and technologies shaping the print and retail execution industry, and this year’s field was the most competitive yet, with winning entries separated by mere tenths of a point. The Product Awards (Output & Non-Output devices) recognize products that advance the printing industry through exceptional contributions to quality, capability, and productivity.

DistroPRO was built to solve a problem most retailers had accepted as the cost of doing business: the gap between merchandising plans and what actually shows up correctly on the shelf. By connecting merchandising, store operations, marketing, and print partners on a single source of truth, DistroPRO gives retail leaders real-time visibility into what shipped, where it landed, and whether it was set right, across every location in their network.

Retailers operating across 31,000-plus stores in seven verticals now run their in-store execution through Crosscap, choosing it because precision at scale is no longer optional in modern retail.

Read the full announcement here

Download the whitepaper to explore the key challenges and opportunities facing retailers and print partners today

About Crosscap

Crosscap is the operating system for retail marketing execution — the software running in-store marketing for some of North America’s largest retailers, from the campaign plan to what’s on the shelf.

For enterprise retailers: One platform to plan, budget, distribute, and verify the marketing that appears in your stores. Built for brands operating 500+ locations across pharmacy, grocery, beauty, apparel, department, specialty, and banking — including Macy’s, Kroger, Ulta Beauty, Sephora, Levi’s, and The Children’s Place.

For commercial printers: Crosscap reduces the manual cost of running your retail accounts and creates a new recurring-revenue product you can sell back to your clients. The printers who use us aren’t just customers — they’re partners with a growth lever.

Our two products — MarketerPRO (campaign planning & execution) and DistroPRO (store distribution & fulfillment) — are powerful on their own. Together, they form a complete marketing execution operating system.

31,000+ stores under management · 7 retail verticals · $500M+ in savings delivered

The first conversation is a diagnostic, not a pitch. Visit crosscap.com to book a discovery call.

To learn more, visit www.crosscap.com

#MillenniumLive: Stop Renting Your Customer Relationship: The Case for Owning Last-Mile Delivery with Burq

In this episode of Millennium Live, Jake Stein, VP of Retail Growth at Burq, joins the podcast to discuss why last-mile delivery has become one of retail’s most important competitive advantages. Jake has spent more than two decades helping some of the world’s most influential technology companies scale growth, operations, and customer experience. From past experiences at Expedia’s travel marketplace to Uber’s global logistics network, Jake has built a career at the intersection of technology, commerce, and operational excellence. He shares lessons from building delivery infrastructure at Uber Direct, explains why retailers are increasingly reclaiming ownership of the customer experience, and explores how modern delivery orchestration is transforming everything from beauty and home improvement to time-sensitive B2B parts fulfillment. Jake also dives into Burq’s AI-powered orchestration platform, Pulse AI, and how intelligent dispatching, real-time exception management, and proactive customer communication are helping retailers improve reliability without simply adding more delivery capacity. Jake offers his perspective on the future of retail logistics, why reliability is emerging as a stronger loyalty driver than speed, and what retail leaders need to understand as the industry shifts from carrier expansion to AI, data, and orchestration. More about Jake and Burq: Jake Stein is VP of Retail Growth at Burq, where he leads enterprise expansion across retail and distribution. He joined Burq from Uber Direct, where he ran Retail across the U.S. and Canada, partnering with national retailers to embed delivery directly into their native ecommerce experiences. Before last-mile, Jake spent two decades in online travel, leading global partnerships and distribution strategy working with top lodging brands. Across 25+ years of leadership, his work has lived at the intersection of technology, commercial strategy, and operations. Burq is a last-mile delivery infrastructure platform that gives businesses access to a broad carrier network all in one place. Powered by Pulse AI, Burq delivers the intelligence and flexibility to optimize every delivery, from execution to customer experience.

Listen on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music

About Burq

Burq is a last-mile delivery infrastructure for teams that need reliability at scale without stitching together carriers, tools, and manual exception handling.

Burq’s AI layer, Pulse AI, powers specialized agents across the delivery lifecycle that read real-time signals, detect risk early, and trigger actions that protect on-time performance, cost, and customer experience.

With Burq, teams can quote and select the best option per order; orchestrate dispatch across in-house and third-party fleets; automate routing, batching, and workflow decisions; resolve exceptions fast (reroutes, recovery, refunds/credits); send brand-safe customer updates; and surface performance insights that make reliability and cost drivers clear.

Built for enterprise and high-growth operators across grocery, floral, specialty retail, and more. Learn more at burqup.com.

To learn more, visit www.burqup.com

Lowering Total Cost of Care With Strategic Surgical Cost Management with Paradigm

Contributed by Paradigm

Health plans continue to invest in lowering total cost of care, but surgical spend remains one of the largest and most overlooked drivers, accounting for nearly one-third of overall spend. In a newly released data report, Paradigm examines how leading plans are taking a two-pronged approach to reduce surgical costs, combining utilization management with member-focused decision support. Read the report to see how leading plans are capturing these savings.

Download the full report here.

About Paradigm

Paradigm is a specialty care management organization, focused on improving the lives of people with complex injuries and diagnoses. For over 35 years, the company has been a pioneer in value-based care, generating the very best outcomes for patients, payers, and providers in the workers’ compensation and healthcare markets. Paradigm impacts complex, high-cost care and spend categories through risk-based clinical solutions and case management, specialty networks, home health, shared decision support, and payment integrity programs. The company consistently delivers proven cost savings, while improving outcomes across the continuum of care.

For more information, please visit paradigmcorp.com.

Business Insider: The AI Boom Is Giving These Execs More Power — and Headaches — Than Ever

Contributed by Business Insider

At Match Group, every employee now has an AI budget.

The parent company of Tinder, Hinge, and other dating apps recently began giving department heads a set amount to spend on AI, which is then distributed across their teams. Employees can track their usage on a dashboard, and if they want to exceed their budget, they have to explain why. The company’s most expensive AI models also aren’t available by default and require a specific use case.

“If you don’t set guardrails, there’s no reason for an engineer to not go use the most expensive model,” said Match Group CFO Steve Bailey. The average software engineer at the company spends roughly $600 a month on AI tokens, he said.

Additional headaches

CFOs are also facing new business problems arising from AI.

A crowded AI market is making those decisions even harder. New providers are constantly pitching tools that promise to boost productivity, cut costs, or replace existing software, forcing many CFOs to take a more active role in evaluating vendors, said Alex Sobol, cofounder of the Millennium Alliance, an invite-only community for C-suite executives in North America and Europe.

“It seems like every hour there’s a new AI vendor,” he said. “It’s hard to know what’s real and what’s fake, and what’s good and what’s bad.”

Read the full article here to discover how leading organizations are navigating the AI spending boom and what it means for the future of finance leadership.

About Business Insider

Business Insider is a global newsroom covering business, technology, and the economy. They help ambitious, curious people stay informed, understand the context, and get ahead.

Learn more at www.businessinsider.com

Shift Hard Left. Break Down Silos. Accelerate FWA Prevention with 4L Data Intelligence

Contributed by 4L Data Intelligence

Shift Hard Left. Break Down Silos. Accelerate FWA Prevention.

Health plan leaders have long understood that fragmented data structures and siloed organizations are barriers to financial performance. What the 2026 4L Fraud Advisory Council made clear is that the cost of inaction is no longer theoretical — and technology makes the path forward accessible.

Meeting in Dana Point, CA in February 2026, the Council — a multidisciplinary group of SIU, program integrity, payment integrity, and network leaders — focused this year’s collaboration on two initiatives with measurable, near-term impact: 1) breaking down provider data silos across the enterprise and 2) shifting payment integrity and FWA prevention ‘hard left’ in the network, ordering, and claims processes.

The Council’s recommendations are direct. Administrative costs are unsustainable. MLRs are climbing. Legacy claims and operating systems, along with organizational silos, are making the problem worse. At the end of the two-day session, the Council defined a roadmap designed to help most health plans achieve at least a 10% reduction in administrative costs while accelerating overall payment integrity and FWA prevention to reduce MLRs.

2026 Fraud Advisory Council Whitepaper Highlights

Why siloed provider data costs health plans millions—and what it takes to fix it.
Organizational changes that break down silos and reduce FWA and administrative costs.
A five-stage cost-cutting framework for shifting payment integrity and FWA prevention ‘hard left’.
What ‘shifting left’ requires from both an organizational and technology perspective.

Download the 2026 4L Fraud Advisory Council Whitepaper here.

For more information about 4L and the 4L Health Plan Performance Suite, visit 4LData.com.

About 4L Data Intelligence

4L Data Intelligence™ is the Integr8 AI™ powered company focused on helping our customers and partners deliver better healthcare, insurance and government services at a lower cost by improving data, provider, payment and decision integrity. We are committed to USING THE POWER OF Integr8 AI™ TECHNOLOGY FOR GOOD by helping healthcare payers, health systems, governments and insurers deliver better services and care and reduce trillions of dollars in out-of-control costs by making actionable data accessible in real-time, automating inefficient processes and preventing fraudulent, wasteful and abusive payments that drive up costs.

For more information, visit 4LData.com.

Higgle: The B2B Sales Club: The Hidden Advantage of Tactfully Handling Difficult People with Alex Sobol, Part 2

Contributed by Higgle: The B2B Sales Club

Are outdated discovery tactics and fear of rejection quietly killing your enterprise deals?

Alex Sobol, co-founder of The Millennium Alliance, is here for part 2 to unpack what’s really happening in B2B C-suite sales right now. We dig into why so many companies are hiring the wrong types of salespeople (even when their resumes look perfect) and what actually separates average performers from elite sellers. Alex challenges the obsession with polished credentials and explains why traits like tenacity, emotional resilience, and comfort in discomfort matter far more than pedigree. We also explore why traditional discovery tactics often fall flat with executives and how sellers unintentionally sabotage their own credibility.

The conversation then shifts to what’s changed in enterprise selling over the past five years, and what hasn’t. We talk about why over-relying on email cadences and marketing automation is a losing strategy, why speed matters more than ever when executives frequently change roles, and how fear of being “too salesy” holds people back. Alex shares sharp insights on negotiation mistakes, especially the dangerous habit of discounting too quickly just to secure a win.

Topics covered during this episode include:

The shift that Alex has seen in B2B selling over the last five years.
How and why companies consistently hire the wrong salespeople.
Why prestigious backgrounds don’t guarantee selling success.
The traits that separate elite sellers from average performers.
How rigorous interview processes can stress test candidate resilience.
Why likability and emotional toughness matter more than polish.
The illusion that every tech seller uses a “unique” approach.
How executive turnover shortens real selling windows dramatically.
Why over-delicate follow-ups waste critical buying momentum.
How excessive generic questions quickly erode executive credibility.
Why traditional SPIN selling tactics feel outdated and make Alex cringe.
The importance of face-to-face engagement over digital noise.
How marketing automation cannot replace real relationship building.
How premature discounting weakens long-term client relationships.
Why sellers must focus on outcomes, not personal comfort.

If growth feels harder than it should, this episode might change your perspective. Listen to the full episode now on Higgle’s Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube Music.

About Higgle: The B2B Sales Club

This is Higgle: The B2B Sales Club Podcast, where we bring you actionable insights about sales RFPs, sales negotiations, and difficult procurement discussions. It’s all about helping you win more deals and hit your sales quota.

We talk to sales leaders, brand leaders, and procurement leaders about lessons learned on their journey to win more sales deals and achieve better negotiated outcomes.

The podcast is hosted by Mike Lander, an ex-procurement director and entrepreneur, talking to guests about their experiences – the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Please subscribe to get updates when new episodes are released.

Higgle: The B2B Sales Club: The Hidden Advantage of Tactfully Handling Difficult People with Alex Sobol, Part 1

Contributed by Higgle: The B2B Sales Club

What if the real secret to sales success is in how you handle difficult people?

In this episode, our Co-Founder, Alex Sobol, sits down with Mike Lander, former procurement director and entrepreneur, and host of Higgle: The B2B Sales Club, to take a closer look at the real traits that drive success in sales.

Alex shares how he went from selling sponsorships straight out of college to building a global C-suite community now on track to reach $100 million in revenue. He explains that sales success has less to do with flashy tactics and more to do with work ethic, resilience, and the ability to handle difficult people without losing momentum.

He also explores why culture, accountability, and character start in the interview process—and why he personally speaks to every potential hire.

Topics covered during this episode include:

Why C-suite access is harder to earn than most sellers realize.
How the high-impact model of The Millennium Alliance creates valuable conversations.
Why private meetings change the way sponsors measure event success.
Why sponsorship sales taught lessons to Alex that later shaped his business.
How Alex and his other Co-Founder recognized an opportunity others seem to miss.
How culture becomes more than a slogan during rapid growth.
Why founder-led selling does not always prove a business can scale.
How interview questions reveal traits a resume can easily hide.
How difficult people can become a lesson instead of an obstacle.
Why self-awareness may be the missing ingredient in many sales careers.
How other, ordinary jobs can reveal whether someone is built for sales.
How trained leaders become the real turning point in company growth.
Why the first million is so dependent on blocking out noise and staying focused.

Listen to the full episode to learn how to navigate pressure, handle rejection, and deal with difficult people. Available on Higgle’s Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube Music.

About Higgle: The B2B Sales Club

We talk to sales leaders, brand leaders, and procurement leaders about lessons learned on their journey to win more sales deals and achieve better negotiated outcomes.

The podcast is hosted by Mike Lander, an ex-procurement director and entrepreneur, talking to guests about their experiences – the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Please subscribe to get updates when new episodes are released.