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Mayank Jain

Mayank Jain is a finance operations researcher and editor at Finance Circuit. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and has more than four years of experience at a B2B SaaS and lead-generation company. His work focuses on the systems, workflows, evidence and technology behind finance-team decisions.

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SaaS Spend & Procurement Statistics 2026

A source-qualified 2026 benchmark of SaaS spend, license utilization, renewals, pricing, AI costs and procurement cycles, with the controls finance leaders need before using the numbers.

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News Procurement & Spend

Serra Verde’s $1.55bn offtake structure: when procurement can count secured supply

An August 21 amendment satisfied the Serra Verde offtake’s revised financing condition, but the $500m revolver remains unfunded and first deliveries are only expected in early Q4. Procurement should keep financing, production, qualification and delivery as separate supply states.

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News Finance Systems & Data

Thomson Reuters’ Thomson LLM: the $40m build, adapt and buy case

Thomson Reuters says Thomson cost about $40 million to develop, but its final training run was under $450,000 and CoCounsel remains multi-model. Finance systems leaders need a cost-and-ownership ledger, not a binary build-versus-buy label.

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News Planning & Performance

Woodside retires its US$5bn new-energy target: the FP&A capital bridge

Woodside retired its 2030 US$5bn new-energy investment target, placed Beaumont New Ammonia under strategic review and targeted US$350m of annual structural cost reductions from 2028. The reset does not disclose a US$5bn cash release or change Woodside’s US$4.0–US$4.5bn 2026 capex guidance.

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News Treasury & Cash

Nayax–IPS deal: settlement controls before parking-payment migration

Nayax agreed to acquire IPS Group for $350 million, but the transaction remains pending and payment migration is only a stated opportunity. Payments teams should lock merchant, settlement, refund and reconciliation evidence before any cutover.

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