All Change: Dealing with Consolidation in the TMS Market
You might have already heard that TMS provider Kyriba may be up for sale. Payment provider TIS has also recently announced the acquisition of Cashforce. Indeed, it’s no secret that industry consolidation is a growing trend within the fintech world. In the past few years, TreasuryXpress was acquired by Bottomline Technologies. ION purchased Reval. BELLIN […]
Easy Connections
Fides Brings Corporates Even Closer to their Banking Partners When clients publicly acclaim a vendor for its work in an area that is nothing short of essential, it’s hard not to pay attention. The TMI Awards judges certainly found this to be the case when choosing Fides as the winner of the Bank Connectivity Award […]
Lost in Transaction: Overcoming Payments Pitfalls
From simple errors to duplicates, fraud and sanctions violations, there are a number of areas where payments can go wrong – especially in the real-time environment. In this podcast, TMI speaks to Andrew Ferrao (Sonnedix), Alroy D’Cruz and Barry O’Sullivan (Kyriba), who examine common pain points and outline ways to improve payment workflows through better […]
All Together Now
Fides Changing Bank Connectivity for Good TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION AWARDS Bank Connectivity “Fides offers a level of enrichment that other multibank providers just cannot deliver. We can send them one format and they can configure that format in a way that it is tailored for each of our banks. They proactively come up with solutions […]
Activate Your Liquidity to Manage Treasury Challenges in the New Normal
The Kyriba Global Summit explored how financial technologies can support active treasury management, smarter payments, as well as fraud and risk concerns and active working capital management for corporates. Here are the key takeaways for treasurers. Kyriba Global Summit, the firm’s first digital and global event – hosted in November 2020 – provided an array […]
The New Reality of Treasury
The role of treasury, and the corporate treasurer, has been evolving over the past decade. And there’s no turning back – pandemic or no pandemic, ‘the new normal’ is here to stay. The business landscape is being shaped not just by Covid-19, but by digitisation, rapidly changing technology, geopolitical unrest and regulations for everything from […]
An Award-Winning Digital Treasury Transformation: Secrets of Success
TMI Award winner Gavi’s Managing Director of Finance and Operations, Assietou Diouf, joins us to discuss the organisation’s celebrated digital treasury transformation project. Assietou is joined by Aniket Kulkarni, PwC, and Christian Mnich, SAP, to discover how, with the help of project partners PwC and SAP, Gavi has leveraged cloud applications such as a multi-bank […]
New Treasury Partnerships and the Future of the TMS
TMI’s Eleanor Hill invites Donna Wilczek, SVP, Product Strategy and Innovation, Coupa Software; François Masquelier, CEO and Founder, Simply Treasury; and Martin Bellin, CEO and Founder, BELLIN to talk all things TMS. Given the increasingly strategic role of the treasurer in today’s disrupted financial landscape, our guests consider how evolving TMS requirements are incentivising corporates to invest in specialist software. They also explore the notion of an ‘on demand’ ecosystem of treasury technology.
Treasury APIs: Banking on a New Connectivity Ecosystem
Claiming the ‘Best Bank Connectivity’ accolade in TMI’s 2019 Awards for Innovation and Excellence, John Laurens, Group Head of Global Transaction Services at DBS, discusses the forces reshaping corporate to bank connectivity. He also explains how to achieve best-fit bank connectivity and outlines the role of open application programming interfaces (APIs) in treasury innovation, integration […]
Know Your Vendor: Fighting Fraud the Smart Way
Detecting and preventing fraud is a growing concern for treasurers, especially as operations become increasingly digital and payments are being made in real time. BELLIN has launched a new Vendor Verification tool to help treasurers to stay one step ahead of the fraudsters – and scooped a 2019 TMI Award for Innovation & Excellence in […]
Implementing a TMS for the 21st Century at Avalon Health Care
With an eye on improving internal processes around payments and reconciliations, as well as providing greater cash visibility, Avalon Health Care Group (Avalon) chose TreasuryXpress – a high-value, easy-to-use and easy-to-implement TMS – as their partner for treasury transformation. Treasury and accounting have seen huge efficiency benefits from the implementation and management now have transparency […]
Houston, We Have a Solution: Cheniere Flips the Treasury Script
Over the last 18 months, Cheniere’s treasury landscape has changed beyond recognition. As Brook Ballard, Treasury Manager, Cheniere Energy, Inc., David Andrada, Global Sector Head and Steven Smith, Regional Sector Head for Natural Resources & Utilities (NRU), HSBC Global Liquidity and Cash Management, explain, from decentralised beginnings, Cheniere now runs centralised, global treasury operations from […]
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 […]
TMS Transition Put to the Test
By Arnault Gitzinger, Head of Group Cash Management, Eurofins Scientific Complex cash management processes meant Eurofins Scientific had a specific set of demands for its new treasury management system. This case study outlines the biotechnology company’s transition to DataLog Finance’s Treasury Line, and the resulting benefits. The Eurofins Scientific treasury department has evolved significantly over […]
The Continuing Quest to Modernise Corporate Payments and Bank Connectivity in the Digital Age
In an era of digitisation, payments acceleration, and new techniques to exchange and integrate transactions and data, treasurers and finance managers have unprecedented opportunities to modernise corporate payments and bank connectivity. Furthermore, as FIS’ 2018 market report reveals, treasurers are enthusiastic about leveraging these opportunities. Some are creating an entirely new technology infrastructure while others […]