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 […]
How ICD’s Technology is Making a Genuine Difference
Knowing what its clients want has given ICD, the independent portal provider of money market funds and other short-term investments, a clear advantage as it scoops two TMI Awards this season: the Treasury4Good Best Technology Solution, and the Technology & Innovation Best Portal Technology prize. A worthy double winner. Technology & Innovation Awards Portal Technology […]
Mind the Gap! Overcoming Obstacles to Short-term ESG Investing
While treasurers have repeatedly shown interest in using ESG-related short-term investment instruments, actual investment levels have yet to match these aspirations. Recent research from ICD explores the gap between intention and execution in treasury investments. Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) has risen up the treasury and finance agenda in recent years, with banks and financial […]
MMF Reforms Risk Missing the Point
Money market funds are once again in the cross hairs of regulators in the US and Europe following a brief liquidity crunch in March 2020. Sebastian Ramos, Executive Vice President, Global Trading and Products, ICD, discusses the risks that over-zealous reforms could pose to the popular short-term investment instruments. During the global financial crisis of […]
Pandemic Powerhouses
TMI Corporate Recognition Award Winners 2020 In one of the toughest years for treasury in the past decade, treasury teams stepped up their innovation projects and rolled out digital best practices at speed. Here, we celebrate their successes. What a year 2020 was. As much as the financial crisis of 2007/8 had provided some insight […]
Taking the API Path
Integrated Treasury Workflows CORPORATE RECOGNITION AWARDS Treasury Technology Trailblazer – Highly Commended A monolithic treasury management system (TMS) was not what Scott Taylor, Treasurer, Bandwidth, was looking for. Instead, he wanted a light-touch technology solution that would help the company achieve its growth plans, while being flexible enough to leverage the latest technological developments. The […]
Celebrating a Sustainable Future
Treasury4Good Awards 2020 Despite the global pandemic, sustainability and diversity and inclusion (D&I) have remained key areas of engagement for corporate treasurers and their relationship banks. Here, we celebrate those organisations putting environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues at the heart of the corporate treasury function. Now in their second year, TMI’s Treasury4Good Awards recognise […]
Increasing Treasury’s Strategic Bandwidth: An Integrated Workflow for Forecasting and Investing
An innovative integration between its cash automation platform and money market investment portal has given Bandwidth Inc. the benefits of a truly straight-through data workflow. Scott Taylor, Treasurer at the enterprise cloud communications company, explains how this efficient integration took place – without him needing to lift a finger. Established in Raleigh, North Carolina, in […]
A New Model for Assessing Risks and Opportunities in the Money Markets
In the wake of Covid-19, corporates are reassessing their liquidity management strategies. To assist treasury managers in this endeavour, ICD and The Carfang Group have created a new quantitative model for assessing the risk/return relationships among money market instruments. Justin Brimfield, Chief Marketing Officer, ICD, and Anthony J. Carfang, Managing Director, The Carfang Group, explain […]
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 even greater. TMI speaks to five industry experts to discover how treasury professionals are responding to the financial impacts of Covid-19. We also ask what treasurers can do to ensure they have the […]
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 people and the systems that enable them to overcome the toughest obstacles. Liquidity continues to top treasury’s leading concerns across industry surveys. But especially now, as the downstream effects […]
Through the Portal: Opening the Door to Process Efficiencies at Drax
Drax’s Treasury and Corporate Finance team needed a new money market fund (MMF) portal solution to improve their control environment, streamline their workflow and automate their manual processes. Here, Lisa Dukes, Deputy Group Treasurer, Drax, outlines the benefits of choosing and implementing ICD Portal, and shares key learnings from this Award-winning technology journey. Aiming to […]
Changing the Rules: Redefining MMF Workflows at Drax
Turn the clock back to 2018 and manually transferring money market fund trade data between systems was taking up too much of Drax’s treasury team’s valuable time. Fast forward to today and straight-through processing of data has been achieved thanks to an exemplary implementation of ICD Portal, worthy of TMI’s 2019 Corporate Recognition Award for […]
Raising the Bar: Corporate Recognition Awards
By Eleanor Hill, Editor Year-on-year, the standard of entries to TMI’s Corporate Recognition Awards increases, taking the corporate treasury profession to new heights. The following overview of projects undertaken by corporates over the last 12 months provides a mere flavour of the innovation happening in the industry and we congratulate all our winners wholeheartedly! Best […]