Payments Vision 2025: The Inside Track
Developments such as instant payments, digital currencies, and enriched data services are poised to shake up treasury management. In a recent podcast, TMI spoke to three experts to understand how, by working together, corporates and financial institutions are set to usher in new value-added services that benefit all parties. But treasurers are warned, don’t try […]
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 […]
ISO 20022: What is it and Why is it so Important?
Standards make the world go round and in payments, it’s no different. ISO 20022 is coming into force for all payments – and looks set to revolutionise the financial landscape. For many of us who have spent a career in payments, ISO 20022 (referred to in the industry as ‘ISO twenty-oh-two-two’) is imprinted permanently on […]
Navigating SWIFT gpi for Corporates at Naval: BNP Paribas and Kyriba Join Forces
With innovative partnerships across the globe, Christophe Beuvard, Treasurer, Naval Group, knew that having full transparency over outgoing payments was vital for maintaining excellent supplier relationships. By working with BNP Paribas to implement SWIFT gpi for corporates and rolling out the bank’s new Pay and Trace capability, Naval Group can now self-track cross-border payments in […]
Inbound Payments Tracking: A Game-Changer in the Making
With SWIFT’s cross-border inbound tracking service for gpi becoming the latest addition to the treasurer’s toolkit, Nicolas Cailly, Deputy Head of Payments & Cash Management, Societe Generale, explains the new realms of possibility for treasurers. Receiving positive reviews from stakeholders from the outset, it is no surprise that Nicolas Cailly, Deputy Head of Payments & […]
As Easy As KYC: SWIFT and Seamless Corporate Banking
Complying with the know your customer (KYC) aspect of bank account opening and management has long been a burden for corporate treasurers. For Pepper Group, early access to SWIFT’s KYC Registry has helped bring a number of efficiencies to this process. Headquartered in Australia, Pepper Group is a well-established global credit provider with specialist experience […]
Here Come the Winners… 2019 Awards for Innovation & Excellence
Digital disruption was one of the key drivers of treasury innovation in 2019. As this year’s Award winners demonstrate, banks, technology vendors and fintechs have leveraged digital innovation to move the corporate treasury profession forward – delivering excellence by helping treasurers to become more efficient, operate in real-time, and contribute to the wider business in […]
People in Focus: Javier Pérez-Tasso
Javier Pérez-Tasso has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of SWIFT. A member of the SWIFT Executive team for the past seven years, he served as Chief Executive Americas & UK region before taking up his appointment on 1 July 2019 to succeed Gottfried Leibbrandt. Pérez-Tasso joined SWIFT in 1995 and was appointed Chief Executive, Americas […]
Taking the SWIFT Route to Treasury Automation
One of Australia’s largest listed companies, Wesfarmers was looking for a way to automate its confirmations and payments, notably those relating to foreign exchange (FX) deals. Seeking a solution that would integrate seamlessly with its treasury management system (TMS), Wesfarmers’ treasury team opted for SWIFT Alliance Lite2 – garnering significant cost and time efficiencies in […]
Tackling KYC Challenges: A New Solution for Corporates
The demands of meeting know your customer (KYC) obligations are intensifying – and we are aware that KYC is one of the top three challenges facing corporate treasurers when handling their banking relationships. It’s not currently easy for banks and corporates to share the compliance-related information needed to establish or maintain a business relationship. The […]
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 […]
2017 Corporate Recognition Awards: Harnessing Innovation to Enhance Treasury Performance
The end of 2017 marks a bittersweet time for me. These are my final Awards as Editor of TMI, but looking back over the past 12 years since I started with TMI, the Corporate Recognition awards have grown from a handful of awards in 2006 as a supplement to the bank and technology awards, to […]
Twelve Months to Take-Off: Heathrow’s Alliance Lite2 Journey
London Heathrow is the largest airport in Europe, with more than 76 million passengers and 1.54 million tonnes of cargo passing through in 2016. Eighty-one airlines operate through the airport, serving 194 destinations in 82 countries. In 2016, Heathrow recorded 473,231 air transport movements, equivalent to almost 1,300 air transport movements each day. As a […]