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Beyond the Demo

The most successful TMS implementations are not the quickest or the most expensive. They are those where the business remains committed to objectives and adapts as reality inevitably intervenes.

Inside the Factory

Societe Generale explains how an in-house bank/payment factory structure can reduce costs by making optimum use of available liquidity. Better control leads to better decisions – and increased efficiency.

A Glass Act

Faced with the complex task of setting up a treasury from scratch, its architect decided the key to success was simplicity. She focused first on notional cash pooling and then on deploying a TMS.

Unlocking Trapped Cash in a Fragmented Landscape

A playbook to help treasurers develop strategies to cope with regulatory, structural, and operational challenges surrounding liquidity.

Maximising Safety, Liquidity, and Yield in a Volatile Market Environment

Clearstream outlines how repurchase agreements can complement traditional cash investments by adding collateral protection, diversification and operational flexibility.

Building a Treasury Fit for Growth After a De-merger

CoreX reveals how, together with ING, it treated the creation of a new, future-ready treasury as an opportunity to design an operating model around the evolving needs of its global business.

Rewiring for Persistent Uncertainty

As companies globally revise their treasury management strategies in response to continuous disruption, Standard Chartered sets out a four-step action plan for corporates to build adaptability.

The Road to Centralised Payments

Four treasury leaders explain why successful centralisation projects do not start with payments. They are, more importantly, a design choice shaped by business model, technology, data, and governance.

Take it to the Bridge

Model Context Protocol servers offer a new layer capable of transforming communication between business software and external AI assistants. Now it’s time for the treasury community to start exploring this innovation.

Home from Home

Radisson Hotel Group’s Piet Waterloos reflects on his 35-year career so far and examines how the road from accounting to treasury has made him more communicative, proactive, and approachable company-wide.

Maturity Moment

The imminent implementation of PSD3 and the accompanying PSR will drive improvements in payments’ performance, consistency, and accountability as well offer new opportunities for treasuries to move closer to their data.

Cycle Race: Keeping AI Fit for a Finance Function

Rydoo offers corporates a plan for devising a mid-to long-term AI strategy while coping with day-to-day tasks as well as geopolitical events – and advises on dealing with analysis paralysis.

Howdy Partner!

By collaborating with a range of assistants (human or digital), consultants, auditors, and other internal and external partners, organisations – and their treasuries – increase the possibility of consistently achieving better results.

How the Right TMS Can Protect Corporates from Financial Icebergs

A successful TMS selection is an organisational, rather than technological, challenge. Inter-departmental clarity, alignment, and the confidence to make informed decisions are vital elements for a positive outcome.

Rethinking FX in a Real-time World

Foreign Exchange must be understood as infrastructure that is embedded, continuous, and critical to how the system operates.

Designing for Certainty

Two Bank of America experts explain where the real opportunities now lie in India and China.

Every Day Should be a School Day in Transaction Banking

Societe Generale explains why, in an increasingly complex commercial environment, successful global transaction banking must see FI and client playing both roles as student and teacher.

The Future of Money: Better Outcomes, or Just More Complexity?

The future of treasury depends not just on speed and innovation, but on interoperability, transparency and trust.

Revealing the Hidden Balance Sheet

What corporate treasurers can learn from banking peers.

Treasurer vs Controller

Exploring the differences – and connections – between treasury and controllership and the benefits of intentionally blurring the lines between these silos to boost operational resilience.

Getting to Know Central and Eastern Europe is the Key to Unlocking Opportunities

ING explains why Central and Eastern Europe should be viewed asa region rich in opportunities and relevance.

Is Fiat Still the Backbone of Global Finance?

Mahesh Kini, Global Head of Cash Management, Standard Chartered, explores how fiat has evolved, why it remains strategically central, how blockchain-based rails fit alongside it, and why orchestration across both is becoming a defining capability for treasury today. The global financial system is undergoing one of its most consequential periods of change. Blockchain-based settlement models, […]

Strategic Treasury

Strategy is arguably one of the most overused words in the treasury sphere. Yet behind the label lies a more interesting story about influence, connectivity, and the growing expectation that treasury should assist organisations as they proactively navigate uncertainty rather than simply respond to it.

You’ve Never Had It So Good

The corporate world has never before had access to so much rich data and fast connectivity. But will this exciting new terrain really change how treasury operates? A recent TMI podcast recorded at Treasury 360 in Gothenburg, Sweden, uncovers the reality of real-time. Lena Myklebust, Head of Cash Management Infrastructure, Equinor, and Christof Hofmann, Global Head of Cash Management, Deutsche Bank, are your guides.