For many multinational companies, payment factories and in-house banks may have become essential structures, but the environment in which these first appeared has changed significantly. Societe Generale’s Global Transaction Banking duo of Floor Meeuwis, Liquidity Management Products Advisory, and Laure Demaille, Head of Liquidity Solutions, investigate the new challenges and opportunities.
Digital assets, real-time payments and agentic AI all promise a financial system that is faster, richer in data and more flexible. For corporate treasurers and CFOs, however, the more important question is whether these innovations create clearer decisions, stronger control and better business outcomes. Phil Carmalt and Sid Gupta of Bank of America, and Sharon […]
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, […]
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.
The growing adoption of instant payments across Europe marks a significant shift, driven by SEPA harmonisation and the introduction of the Instant Payments Regulation (IPR). But for corporates, instant payments are not an end in themselves. Antoine Bourgier, Head of Payment & Cash Management Solutions, Societe Generale, reveals how this world is developing.
Excel persists for a reason, but is there an alternative? Emmanuel de Rességuier, CEO, Fennech Financial, explores the answer to this rather tricky question. Three minutes before the usual CFO call at 9am, the question lands, inevitably and without ceremony: “What’s our cash position?” Three systems produce three different answers. A fourth sits in Excel, […]
In today’s higher rate, more volatile trading environment, treasurers need practical, actionable strategies for managing corporate cash. Amundi’s Stéphanie Akhal, Head of Sales Liquidity – Europe, and Patrick Siméon, Head of Money Market, explain the increasingly significant role of MMFs in stabilising liquidity and capturing attractive short term yields while avoiding undue credit or duration risk.
“Get your hands dirty.” That is not a command usually heard inside the HQ of a major bank, but it was one of the main messages for the audience at ING’s Orange live – The Future of Payment event. Here, Annelinda Koldewe, ING’s Head of Payments and Cash Management reflects on the bank’s recent flagship webinar.
