October 2020 10 Min Read
Independent treasury consultant Bas Rebel picks his way through the ‘minefield’ of fiscal and regulatory reforms surrounding cash pooling and examines the advantages and challenges to prove the overall benefit case of this method of liquidity management is still...
October 2020 8 Min Read
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...
October 2020 1 Min Read
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...
July 2020 7 Min Read
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 –...
August 2019 5 Min Read
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...
December 2018 4 Min Read
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...
October 2018 5 Min Read
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...
September 2018 8 Min Read
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...
September 2018 14 Min Read
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...
June 2018 3 Min Read
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...
April 2018 7 Min Read
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...
January 2018 6 Min Read
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,...
