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Smart Routes Around Today’s Treasury Snags Seen from Both Sides of the Pond

Transatlantic trends that corporates on both sides of the ocean should keep in mind as they address the evolving global situation.

Email is So Last Century…

Discover why it is time to swap the ageing inbox for a cutting-edge platform.

Avoid Unwelcome Surprises and Prepare for the Next Step in Payments Regulation

What will Instant Payments Regulation (IPR) mean for treasurers in Europe and how can they best prepare?

Treasury Centralisation

Dick Oskam (ING) considers the key drivers for centralisation and the solutions available to treasurers with a special focus on on-behalf-of structures.

How CBPR+ and ISO 20022 is Changing Customer Reporting

The impact of Cross-Border Payments and Reporting-Plus (CBPR+) on customer reporting comes under the spotlight.

Virtual Cash Management to Empower Treasurers

Bert van Drie and Elly Bouwman (ING) discuss the benefits of establishing real-time cash management through centralisation.

Boosting ESG in the Supply Chain: The Role of Green and Sustainable Trade Instruments

As ESG becomes a major factor in SCF, it is important to be aware of the growing range of tools available to treasurers to help support sustainability.

Instant Payments: Game Changer or Just Another Buzzword?

What are the concrete benefits of implementing instant payments in a business context, for both B2C and B2B flows?

From Buzzwords to Reality: the Road to a Centralised and Digitalised Treasury

For many treasurers, current trends are a clear incentive to centralise treasury operations. But where should they start?

Celebrating ESG and D&I Leaders

Meet the Treasury4Good Champions TMI’s Treasury4Good Awards, which have rapidly become a benchmark for sustainable innovation in the industry, celebrate the best ESG and D&I initiatives among corporates, banks, and technology vendors. Read on to discover how cutting-edge companies are embracing sustainability, supporting diversity, and challenging traditional ways of doing business – to the benefit […]

Putting Sustainable Finance to Good Corporate Use

With green financing levels at record highs, corporate treasurers now have access to a source of funding that can play a vital role in supporting their organisations’ sustainable goals. Here, we explain how to perfectly marry sustainable finance with environmental, social and governance aims, including the transition towards a circular economy model. Green financing for […]

Levelling Up: How Finance Can Help Bridge the Rural-Urban Digital Divide

The mass move to working from home due to the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted an existing disparity between rural and urban areas regarding digital connectivity. For the companies that provide digital infrastructures, green bonds offer a way to finance the upgrade to fibre that aligns with the environmental and social goals of such a project. […]

Financing a Sustainable Economy Through Corporate/Bank Collaboration

The future will only be prosperous if businesses embed sustainability at their core. Treasury can play a vital role in this approach, tapping into sustainable financing to help firms embrace different operating models and emerging technologies that benefit both the corporation and the environment. The global population will be nudging 10 billion by 2050, according […]

Financing the Transition to a Sustainable and Profitable Future

Transitioning to a more sustainable future requires financing solutions that support both the climate and society-linked goals. For investors, tools that enable them to assess companies on their sustainability credentials are crucial to their decision-making. Meanwhile, for treasurers, having access to the right sustainable finance solutions helps them support environmental, social, and governance targets across […]

The Horizon Challenge: Accelerating the Shift to a Green Economy

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought environmental concerns into sharp focus. Today’s business leaders must factor sustainability into their recovery strategies, and treasurers have an essential role to play in reshaping the future of the global economy. Despite the shadow cast on the global economy by the pandemic, a silver lining is starting to emerge. Following […]

A Milestone in SWIFT Corporate Connectivity

ING has had a long and proactive commitment to supporting clients that choose to use SWIFT for bank connectivity. In 2017, the bank reached an important milestone, with almost one in four of all SWIFT corporate clients worldwide now connected to ING.  In this interview, Hendrik De Spiegeleer discusses how the bank has achieved this […]

2017 Awards for Innovation and Excellence – Introducing the Winners

Every year in the TMI Awards has marked a step change in the number and quality of award nominations, and 2017 was no exception, with some well-known banks and technology vendors, but some less familiar names too. This year Citi and HSBC won a clutch of awards in the bank categories. Citi was recognised for […]