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October 2020 8 Min Read

Dynamic Customer Finance: Supply Chain Support for the Covid-19 Age

Amid the pressures of a global pandemic – and the rise of sustainable finance – Jan-Martin Nufer, Vice President Treasury & Funding, Borealis, has collaborated with working capital giant C2FO to create a dynamic customer financing solution to supplement their...

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October 2020 1 Min Read

People in Focus: Stephen Randall

Stephen Randall has recently been appointed Citi’s TTS Global Head of Liquidity Management Services, and a member of the Global Executive Committee.  In this position he is responsible for managing more than 50% of Citi’s deposit base across all...

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July 2020 7 Min Read

Building Corporate Resilience: Treasury Imperatives Now and Next

The initial shock of the Covid-19 pandemic is starting to subside and companies are moving out of crisis management mode into planning for recovery and beyond. Patrick Peters-Bühler, Principal – EMEA, Treasury Advisory Group, Citi, and Yan Li, Senior Adviser –...

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August 2019 5 Min Read

Flying the Standard: Taking IFRS 16 Leases to the Next Level

The new lease accounting standard, IFRS 16, is now in effect. Many companies are still getting to grips with the changes to their financial reporting, with all leases coming onto the balance sheet for the first time. But beyond initial implementation, IFRS 16 is also...

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December 2018 4 Min Read

Repairing Treasury’s Leaky Bucket

The steady erosion of value caused by corporates stockpiling cash as interest rates remain at record lows is becoming more evident as inflation edges higher. But solutions such as dynamic discounting could staunch the flow of cash from EMEA companies. US interest rates...

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October 2018 5 Min Read

After 25 Years, SCF 1.0 Needs A Makeover

For supply chain finance (SCF) to progress and reach the next set of struggling suppliers, the model needs a rethink. We need SCF 2.0. Getting to grips with late payments is easier said than done. A single purchase from end-to-end involves multiple departments, and...

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September 2018 8 Min Read

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...

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September 2018 14 Min Read

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...

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June 2018 3 Min Read

Blockchain is Shifting Data and Risk: Here’s How it Can Benefit Your Bottom Line

Many companies have a hard time with managing data and how it moves across organisations – or more commonly, how it doesn’t. The result is that big corporations and large financial institutions like banks often end up unintentionally segmented into silos. They...

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April 2018 7 Min Read

Optimising the Balance Sheet for Resilience & Flexibility

 Corporate business leaders have never faced more complex challenges in anticipating, understanding and responding to new business trends, and positioning their organisations accordingly. Increasingly, new technologies, industry players and societal trends are...

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January 2018 6 Min Read

Looking Beyond Cash Flow: A Fresh Approach to KPIs

Every treasurer measures, and is consequently measured by, the performance of a company’s treasury function. In many cases, businesses have built up complex and extensive scorecards of key performance indicators (KPIs) that evaluate different elements of accuracy,...