Scale for Growth: Data as the Cornerstone of Finance Transformation
When a company grows through a merger or acquisition, the finance team can be faced with various legacy systems and conflicting procedures. Kim Estes, Vice President, Accounting, The Knot Worldwide, spoke during a recent TMI and Coupa webinar about how her organisation overcame these challenges and found the perfect marriage of technological transformation and streamlined […]
Eliminating Real-Time Payments Fraud and Human Error
When new products are introduced into the financial markets, criminal enterprise will take note, with an eye for new opportunities. In many cases, criminals will repurpose an old scam, based on the new financial product’s vulnerabilities. This is why, as regulatory changes occur that are driven by business innovation, I often caution clients to look […]
Verizon Fostering Final Farewell to Cheques in the US
When BNY Mellon announced that Verizon had become the first corporate client to introduce the Real-Time E-Bills and Payments functionality, it marked a breakthrough for retail clients. TMI asked the bank how this solution could impact the treasury space. The US retail payments space has long relied upon paper cheques and the country’s ACH (automated […]
Payments Tech: Delivering Strategic Advantage
The payments space has been put to the test over the past 18 months or so as businesses continue to face up to the challenges of the pandemic and intense commercial pressures. As new channels of operation and innovative technologies come on stream, Luc Belpaire, Product Management and Business Development, Trax, Enterprise Treasury and Payments, […]
It’s Now or Never: Keeping Pace with Real-Time Payments
Treasurers in business-to-business (B2B) sectors can no longer write off real-time payments as ‘only fit for consumer industries’. Value limits are increasing and usage is trending upwards [1] [2]. What’s more, innovation is bringing added value – ranging from request-to-pay to confirmation of payee services and embedded real-time foreign exchange solutions. Two experts from Barclays […]
Taking Care of Business with an On-Demand TMS
Embarking on a treasury transformation project to improve payments and reconciliation while providing greater cash visibility, Avalon Health Care Group chose TreasuryXpress as its new TMS partner for this journey. The implementation has yielded huge efficiency benefits for both treasury and accounting, earning Avalon a Highly Commended accolade in TMI’s 2019 Corporate Recognition Awards, for […]
OceanaGold: Future-Proofing Growth
At HSBC, we partner with our clients across industries and markets, with an extensive on-the ground network of senior bankers with an in-depth understanding of their sectors. The following is a client example of our partnership in the Natural Resources, Utilities and Chemicals sector. As a global business that is growing quickly, multinational gold producer OceanaGold needs a scalable, flexible, […]
Vive la Révolution: Shaking Up Payments and Cash Management
Driven by technological and regulatory change, the payments landscape is currently a hotbed of innovation. Deborah Mur, Head of Global Liquidity and Cash Management, HSBC France, highlights some of the latest developments – including a recent collaboration between HSBC and PayPal – and explains how corporate treasurers stand to benefit. She also outlines French corporates’ […]
Time to Get Up to Speed with Instant Payments
Believe it or not, real-time payments are already changing the face of treasury. They offer an opportunity to rethink legacy payments, collections and liquidity management processes, glean valuable data, and add strategic value to the business. Instant payments are also a huge enabler of real-time treasury. But the rewards can only be reaped if treasurers […]
Digital Innovation in India: The Road Ahead
India is rapidly becoming a digitally-empowered society and economy, opening up new growth and efficiency opportunities for corporates along the way. Successfully embracing digital innovation is both a science and an art, however, as four industry experts explained during a lively panel debate at HSBC’s recent Global Liquidity and Cash Management Digital Innovation and Transformation […]
Digital India: A New Dawn for Treasury Management
As well as being technical experts and strategic business partners, today’s treasurers must also keep up to speed with digital innovation. This means not only understanding the role of digitisation in building a next-generation treasury function, but also recognising the importance of digital disruption in helping the wider business to grow and prosper. With so […]
On the Brink of a Cashless Society?
The environment in Hangzhou, China today is similar to many other cities around the world: building sites become shiny new shops, offices and apartments; new infrastructure moves people faster than ever, and a vibrant community of people work, study and spend their leisure time. But in one important respect, Hangzhou is quite different. A blueprint […]
Time for Real-Time Payments: Banks Embracing the Payments Revolution
Significant change is under way in the world of payments, with new, client-centric capabilities transforming how we transact. Carl Slabicki discusses how the real-time landscape is evolving, and how banks and the wider industry can make real-time payments a reality on both the local and global stage. Real-time payments are increasingly becoming a global norm […]
Blazing a Funding Transparency Trail
Key Points As an NGO receiving around $100m plus annually, Pathfinder International is keen to be able to demonstrate to donors that it operates transparently, with a high proportion of donor funds going directly to recipients Sunlight Payments, a cloud-based digital payments solution that provides NGOs with a secure, private, and fully-traceable service for delivering aid […]
Request to Pay: The Next Chapter in Collections Innovation
While the media may be full of talk of cryptocurrencies and blockchain, a quiet revolution in payments is gathering momentum: the emergence of real-time Request to Pay (RTP) collections. Regulators are creating open digital markets, merchants are reducing the friction and cost of collections, financial technology companies are building new services on top of banking […]
Consumer Brands and Retail Sector Receivables in the US: A Mixed and Changing Landscape
Consumer Brands and Retail (CBR) receivables management in the US currently presents some very diverse narratives. On the one hand, a substantial percentage of B2B receivables are now electronic and can therefore potentially be automatically reconciled. On the other, an appreciable number of B2B customers still use a mixture of cheques and cards for their […]