Despite the challenges, the UK’s departure from the EU is an opportunity for corporates on both sides of the channel to re-engineer treasury workflows, overhaul legacy...
Cash & Liquidity Management


June 2020 3 Min Read
Covid-19 and the Building Blocks for Business Resilience
The speed and severity with which the Covid-19 pandemic has spread around the globe has sent shock waves through the corporate world – putting business resilience capabilities...


June 2020 6 Min Read
The SWIFT Way to Build a Treasury Function from Scratch
Establishing a dedicated treasury function from the ground up requires a great deal of hard work, strategic thinking and, in the case of Fareva, vital connectivity links to be...


June 2020 10 Min Read
Intra-Group Treasury Operations Seen Through Tax Glasses
On 11 February 2020, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published, as part of its Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project, the final...



June 2020 2 Min Read
SEPA Direct Debit Volumes and Value Hit Hard
By Dennie Servranckx, Senior Product Manager Receivables, BNP Paribas SEPA Direct Debit (SDD) is relied upon by many businesses for a predictable, inexpensive and easy means...


May 2020 22 Min Read
The Ultimate Short-Term Investment Stress Test: Lessons From Covid-19
Treasurers were finding it hard enough to know where to invest their short-term cash before the pandemic hit. Now, the pressure is...


May 2020 3 Min Read
Money Markets and the Human-Technology Connection
As investors seek shelter under the wing of money market funds during the current crisis, Tory Hazard, CEO of Institutional Cash Distributors, discusses the relationship between...


May 2020 7 Min Read
Searching for a Benchmark for Idle Cash Holdings
Having money sitting in bank accounts is often the expensive result of a company’s inability to forecast its cash flows. It is time for treasurers to think again about this...


May 2020 8 Min Read
The Dangers of Negative Interest Rates
Are negative interest rates really good for treasurers, and for the world economy in general? There are admittedly some benefits, but there are many more drawbacks. Perhaps a...


March 2020 7 Min Read
The Future of Cash Management
These are interesting times for cash management. Traditional business models, for clients and their partner banks, are evolving, with digitalisation a core driver. This is occurring at a time when macroeconomic factors,...


March 2020 4 Min Read
Co-Creating a Digital Treasury: Myth vs Reality
Many discussions around treasury technology focus on the leading-edge developments made by a handful of highly sophisticated treasury functions. Meanwhile, the majority of...


January 2020 4 Min Read
Rethinking Receivables: The Role of Adaptation in Holistic Working Capital Management
The working capital requirements of large corporations are often too complex and variable to be effectively addressed with a one-off...