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Both Sides of the Digital Coin

Specialists from NatWest highlight the profound impact CBDCs could have on treasury operations.

Bringing Treasury into the New Era of Payments and Collections

For treasurers, finding ways to offer a great UX, the simplicity and safety of payments, and payment instruments that meet customer needs, is essential.

FX and International Payments

There are proactive steps that treasurers could take today to get a better handle on their currency exposures.

Protect and Detect

Three specialists from NatWest examine essential payments developments for treasury teams to prepare for.

Embedded Finance

Embedded finance is starting to revolutionise the way that corporates interact with their customers and banking partners.

Tapping Today’s Hottest Payments Innovations to Reap Business and Treasury Benefits

NatWest specialists explain why it’s vital for treasurers to have a strategy that is completely aligned with their customers’ payment desires.

As Easy as ESG

Integrating Sustainability into Everyday Treasury As sustainability, diversity, equity, and inclusion matters continue to grow in importance for a range of corporate stakeholders, treasurers are in a prime position to support the transition to ESG-friendly practices. Here, three experts from NatWest explain how treasury teams can achieve this, with the help of an expanding toolkit […]

New Heights for Bank and Technology Innovation

Showcasing the 2021 Award Winners The nominations for TMI’s 2021 Awards for Innovation and Excellence were not only more numerous than ever, but also pushed the boundaries of corporate treasury development further than ever before. All of the bank, technology vendor and fintech winners have created solutions that respond to real needs – present and […]

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 […]

Trade Winds: Six Ways Treasurers Can Harness Supply Chain Disruptors 

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been huge disruption to established supply chains. Treasurers must now consider everything from increased commodity risk to new FX requirements and growing ESG expectations. NatWest’s Mirka Skrzypczak, Head of Working Capital & Trade Products, and Rowan Austin, Head of Trade Origination and Advisory, outline six steps […]

Special FX: Taming Foreign Currency Risks Through Automation and Innovation

Two experts from NatWest share the inside track on how treasurers can better manage FX risks by shaking up legacy processes and old-fashioned thinking.

Taming the Triple Threat

Macro Risk Management in 2022 The first quarter of 2022 has already presented numerous challenges on both geopolitical and macroeconomic fronts – from the ongoing pandemic to inflation risk, trade disruptions, and huge political tensions. TMI invites three experts from NatWest to explain why risk management needn’t be a Herculean task in the year ahead. […]

Feeling the Squeeze

Treasury Implications of Inflation’s Extended Run Corporate treasurers are starting to feel the heat in their cash management policies as heightened inflation levels persist. Understanding the driving forces behind the current rates globally is key to gaining an insight into how long the situation may persist and whether treasurers need to be making short- or […]

Treasury in 2030

5 Practical Steps for Preparing Ahead No-one knows precisely what the future holds, but a successful digital treasury team must be able to adjust quickly to the evolving ecosystem – and be able to scale at speed. In this article, four industry experts outline their visions of a digital treasury function in 2030 and explain […]

Drax Highlights Core Sustainability Credentials with Novel ESG-linked FX Solution

Many treasurers are trying to find their feet in helping their companies deliver on sustainability. Having led the successful execution of an innovative project to implement ESG-linked FX derivatives for her organisation, Lisa Dukes, Director, Corporate Finance & Derivatives, Drax Group, encourages them to be bold, determined and not shy away from thinking outside the […]

Taking Digital Treasury to the Next Level: A No-Nonsense Guide

Introduction Conor MaherHead of Transaction Banking Products, NatWest Moving beyond the Covid catalyst For many corporate treasurers, 2020 was a crash course in digital transformation. As companies adjusted to global lockdown and remote working as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, digital operations quickly became essential. This swift pivot away from manual processes and on-premise […]

Open Your Eyes to the Benefits of Open Banking

An untapped opportunity is a rare prize in the corporate treasury community, but open banking offers this potential. By leveraging the digital infrastructure that open banking creates, corporates can harness real-time data, benefit from new ways to pay and collect instantly, and ultimately leverage the evolving digital ecosystem to improve process- and cost efficiency. In […]