Cash Management Goes Global by Martin Bellin, Managing Director, BELLIN GmbH Ten years ago, it was still a great innovation. Today, almost all companies have one – a system for cash management. It helps obtain bank statements automatically, plan current account balances, and manage all payments orders on a unified system – in short, it […]
tm5 and Payments at L’Occitane: A True Story by Martin Bellin, Founder and Managing Director of BELLIN, Samuel Antunes, Group Treasurer at L’Occitane and Marion Barré, Treasurer & Treasury Systems Specialist at L’Occitane The L’Occitane Group is a global natural and organic ingredient-based cosmetics and well-being products manufacturer and retailer with strong regional roots in […]
Avoiding the Icebergs: Mitigating Financial Disaster by Martin Bellin, Founder and CEO, BELLIN GmbH It was the middle of the night and as RMS Titanic floated through the North Atlantic, ladies and gentlemen, elegantly dressed, sat in the lounge drinking champagne without a care in the world. The iceberg didn’t come as a complete surprise; […]
In the 20th century many businessmen thought that with technology the march of progress would homogenise practices and workflows in treasury. Cash management would centralise, payments standardise, and global treasury would become common. Yet for many companies, treasury is still a local or regional affair. The technology is there, and now that global markets are […]
Security – a Major Focus for Treasurers An Executive Interview with Martin Bellin, Founder and Managing Director, BELLIN Group In this edition, we welcome Martin Bellin, founder and managing director of BELLIN Group, a global leader in providing web-based treasury software and services for multinational corporations headquartered in Germany, with offices in North America and […]
‘Robo’ treasury is one of many buzzwords that have topped headlines in recent months and caused great excitement – but also a fair bit of uncertainty amongst treasurers. If we want to believe the hype, then the treasurer’s days are numbered, and we are all to be replaced by faceless, super-efficient and infallible machines producing […]
Multilateral netting is one of the most underestimated ways to optimise intercompany payments and group performance. In this Executive Interview, Eleanor Hill, Editor, asks Martin Bellin, Founder and CEO of the BELLIN Group, to explain why multilateral netting deserves a little more attention, and how treasurers can make the most of it. Eleanor Hill (EH): […]
The world over, treasurers are seeking improved visibility and control over their data. After all, data is the lifeblood that drives corporate treasury success. Martin Bellin, Founder and CEO, BELLIN, believes that having a tool capable of aggregating that data “has exponential utility”. Is he right, and more to the point, does it really exist? […]
TMI’s Eleanor Hill invites Donna Wilczek, SVP, Product Strategy and Innovation, Coupa Software; François Masquelier, CEO and Founder, Simply Treasury; and Martin Bellin, CEO and Founder, BELLIN to talk all things TMS. Given the increasingly strategic role of the treasurer in today’s disrupted financial landscape, our guests consider how evolving TMS requirements are incentivising corporates to invest in specialist software. They also explore the notion of an ‘on demand’ ecosystem of treasury technology.
