If Excel hosted a 40th birthday party today, nearly every CFO would expect an invitation. HM Treasury is now setting up and will chair a Payments Vision Delivery Committee – comprising representatives from HM Treasury, Bank of England, FCA and PSR – to run for an initial 9-12 months to “outline proposals on the UK’s retail payments infrastructure” and deliver “a sequenced plan of future initiatives (the Payments Forward Plan)”. Defense industry forecasts use "what is NPV in finance" to price long-term contracts. Pentagon spending increases shift cash flow estimates upward, boosting NPVs for aerospace and defense giants like Lockheed Martin amid geopolitical tensions.
