Tom Alford

Following the launch of Verafide, the UK’s first open source blockchain-based platform for verifiable credentials, TMI talks to the firm’s technical adviser about know your customer policies and other corporate uses...

Plastic Bank is an international social enterprise organisation founded and based in Canada. It builds recycling ecosystems in underdeveloped communities, as a way of reducing plastic pollution and tackling high poverty...

Ingka Group, the largest franchisee of the IKEA brand, with 390 stores in 32 countries, is not currently using digital currencies, but is following their progress closely. It is building its knowledge and understanding of the market, and assessing when the right...

Bank of America’s recently formed EMEA ESG Strategic Council has a number of important goals in its sights. TMI talks to the council’s leaders about how it will deliver and what it means for stakeholders. With a stated intention of becoming net zero by 2030,...

Green trade finance transactions require a trade finance instrument to support an underlying green project. But with no market standards yet supporting their use, accusations of ‘greenwash’ threaten their integrity. TMI spoke to the Head of Trade Finance at...

The money markets play a key part in the short-term investment programmes of treasurers. Reforms have helped them ride out the worst of recent events. But money markets could be better still, says one leading...

With its multi-vendor hedging and financial risk management system architecture coming to the end of its useful life, leading...

Pension trusteeship is subject to a range of increasing challenges, not least around managing the regulatory burden. For a corporate treasurer entrusted with a UK defined benefit pension scheme – especially one from a multinational sitting overseas – the time...

Concerns that the might of the UK’s financial sector would crumble post-Brexit seem not have been justified – so far. Can treasurers rest easy? Chris Biggs, Partner,...

The use of digital currencies in legitimate commercial settings took a sizeable step forward recently with the first ever live settlement of a fund using Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) tokens. What is the impact...

The second instalment of Standard Chartered’s Regulatory Readiness Series for Corporates explores the impact on treasury of the regulatory necessity to respond to immediate threat while delivering on long-term...

The airline industry, currently subject to an extraordinarily challenging trading environment, could be about to save billions of dollars every year in financing costs if a...

If you’ve not heard of Banking-as-a-service (BaaS) yet, do not be alarmed. It’s a relatively new concept that is still mostly concerned with retail banking. But its application for transaction banking is beginning to create waves. TMI wrote about Goldman...

EY’s recent report on the state of the corporate, commercial, and SME banking market points to a number of problems in the sector, before providing several solutions. Treasurers interested in moulding the future with...

Innovation comes with no guarantees of success. Is there a way to increase the odds? We ask Annerie Vreugdenhil, Chief Innovation Officer, ING , to describe the processes she employs with her team. In the treasury world, ‘innovation’ may be interpretated as...

The financial mechanisms underpinning global trade are undergoing significant change. Tradeteq CEO Christoph Gugelmann explains how quantum computing has the potential to transform this trillion-dollar industry over the...

The connected nature of business today means it has never been more important for treasurers to recognise and respond to the risks impacting their partner ecosystem. In particular, given the agenda for digitalisation,...

With the pandemic forcing many to work remotely, the idea has gained traction among professionals that this is not such a bad thing after all. To what extent can treasurers...

As book titles go ‘Technology Is Dead’ is likely to pique the interest of more than a few treasurers, given that the profession is frequently bombarded with messages to the contrary. TMI spoke to its author, Chris...

McKinsey’s Global Banking Annual Review 2020 is out and, despite the obvious challenges of this year, positivity is in the air. But more work is needed. TMI talks to one of the report’s authors, McKinsey Senior...

The pace of change in the payments space is not conducive to restful slumber. Standard Chartered’s Regulatory Readiness Series for Corporates aims to soothe the fevered...

Ports are a vital part of the global economy – so when one of the biggest in the world is striving to counter climate change, its actions should be watched closely. TMI...

The idea that best-of-breed selection, as opposed to a traditional ‘full stack’ TMS, is the way forward gets the TIS ‘Executive Briefing’ treatment in its latest paper. But are treasurers ready to abandon their...

The noise around APIs is particularly raucous in the financial services world, but are they delivering on the promise to bring a host of new products and services to end-users? TMI asks Sindhu Vadakath, Head of Global Digital Channels and Asia Payments Product...

It seems that change is in the air for many corporates. Indeed, a recent Treasury Dragons event demonstrated that there is a healthy appetite amongst corporates to move to another core system or banking provider. With...

Technological disruption is the name of the game in financial services these days. With Bank of America’s Head of Cross-Product Solutions, Ayeesha Sachedina, speaking on a SIBOS panel later this week on the impact of...