eBAM that Works!
With Delega announcing the start of the pilot phase of its cloud-based solution for bank account management, TMI talks to the firm’s CEO, Riccardo Balsamo, about his expectations for this truly collaborative project. The lack of an effective bank account management solution is one of those challenges that has been around for an extremely long […]
Giving Cash Processing a Real-time Boost
Jabil’s global AP structure streamlined with Serrala FS2. Serrala Alevate CashApp is delivering next-level AR processing For US-based high-tech manufacturer Jabil, AP was spread globally across three shared services centres. With manual processing and no standardisation, it was time for cash processing to get a technology boost. Serrala delivered in a project that TMI is […]
Predicting the Future – 5 Treasury Megatrends for 2022
The past 24 months have been anything but predictable. Yet, beneath the Covid umbrella, the world continues to turn, and progress marches on – especially in the area of transaction banking. But how can treasurers assess the latest industry innovations and sort genuine trends from hot air? Julie Lubell, Global Head of Trends & Intelligence […]
Citizen Development: the New Productivity Engine for Corporate Treasurers
‘Citizen development’ is about encouraging non-IT professionals to learn software development skills. With the roll-out of low-code platforms, can treasurers really start creating their own business applications? Citizen developers are employees who don’t have a coding background but do have the skills to create or customise applications to solve business problems, cost-efficiently boosting productivity without […]
Reassessing Financial Maturity Post-Pandemic
With the successful vaccine roll-out and the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions in many parts of the world, it feels like we are finally moving beyond the pandemic and returning to (something like) normal. However, most business leaders recognise that major disruptions will strike again. Today’s finance and treasury teams are faced with ensuring their business’s […]
How Accounts Receivable Automation Delivers Value for Businesses
Accounts receivable (AR) automation can offer a solution to the challenges posed by the need to reduce overheads, collect payments, and grow a business as the global economy recovers from the pandemic. Building business resilience in order to prepare for future disruption and making working capital function more effectively have never been bigger priorities for […]
A Great Connection: Telco Treasuries Set a Shining Digital Example
The telecommunications sector has played an instrumental role in supporting organisations with the transformational shift to remote working. It has also helped ensure continued access to digital financial services to people via traditional banking and alternative payment methods during the pandemic. Telco treasurers operate in a highly acquisitive sector that requires regular financing to support […]
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, […]
The 1920s Roared After a Pandemic – Will the 2020s Do the Same?
The Roaring Twenties were driven by technological progress, developments in economic infrastructure, and defined by a flowering of post-pandemic parties and an explosion of economic activity. Sound familiar? Christoph Gugelmann, Co-Founder and CEO, Tradeteq, explores the likelihood of history repeating itself. Today’s parallel economic conditions have led economists and historians to declare that the Covid-19 […]
Maximising Treasury Centralisation with In-house Banking-as-a-Service
With the Covid-19 pandemic augmenting the focus on cash visibility, in-house banks are back in the spotlight. Thanks to cloud technology, support to establish in-house banking is more accessible than ever. This topic was recently the subject of a TMI webinar with Deutsche Bank, which included a case study from cloud-based software company Salesforce. While […]
Taking Digital Treasury to the Next Level: A No-Nonsense Guide
Introduction Conor MaherHead of Transaction Banking Products, NatWest Moving beyond the Covid catalyst For many corporate treasurers, 2020 was a crash course in digital transformation. As companies adjusted to global lockdown and remote working as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, digital operations quickly became essential. This swift pivot away from manual processes and on-premise […]
TIS EPO: Reimagining the World of Enterprise Payments
Treasury Intelligence Solutions’ (TIS) Enterprise Payment Optimization (EPO) takes a vital process, removes its complexities, and improves visibility for every participant in the chain. Stating such a goal is simple. But, as TIS explains, delivering on such a message requires some rather special thinking. Payments sit at the heart of every single business. In short, no […]
Can’t Touch This
Serrala Creates Frictionless AP and AR Cloud Solutions TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION AWARDS Accounts Payable & Receivable Solution For the sixth year running, Serrala has been awarded the Best Accounts Payable & Receivables Technology Solution by TMI. In 2020, the acclaimed vendor of finance and treasury solutions launched touchless receivables and payables tools that are invaluable […]
Recipe for Success: Building a New World-class Treasury during Lockdown
When Patrick Kunz, Interim Treasury & Finance Consultant, started at Takeaway.com, the treasury function did not exist. Building one from scratch is the dream scenario for many treasurers. But when – on only the third day of this endeavour – the world went into lockdown as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, that dream could […]
A Life-Changing Digital Treasury Transformation
Supporting Gavi’s Mission Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance helps vaccinate children against some of the world’s deadliest diseases. Since its inception, this public-private partnership has helped immunise more than 822 million children, preventing at least 14 million deaths, in 73 lower-income countries. Gavi is currently coordinating the COVAX Facility, a global mechanism for the pooled procurement […]
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 […]
Remote Control: Can Treasury Break Free From the Office for Good?
With the pandemic forcing many to work remotely, the idea has gained traction among professionals that this is not such a bad thing after all. To what extent can treasurers operate effectively away from the office? We ask an expert. Corporate treasury teams are usually quite small, tight-knit affairs, with the emphasis on ‘teamwork’. The […]
Specialist Treasury Technology: A Breed Apart?
The idea that best-of-breed selection, as opposed to a traditional ‘full stack’ TMS, is the way forward gets the TIS ‘Executive Briefing’ treatment in its latest paper. But are treasurers ready to abandon their love of TMSs and migrate to best-of-breed solutions instead? When research by HSBC demonstrated in late 2019 that 69% of treasury functions currently […]
Building Resilience: Treasury’s Role in Overcoming Cyber Risk and Fraud
Remote working, and greater reliance on technology, is leading to a rapid increase in cyber-attacks and fraud attempts. Royston Da Costa, Assistant Group Treasurer, Ferguson, and Michael Juen, Chief Customer Officer, BELLIN, a Coupa company, explain how treasurers can build greater resilience against these threats – and weigh up the costs of investing in cybersecurity […]
How Covid-19 has Injected New Life into the Fintech Sector
The coronavirus pandemic has brought the need for greater and more advanced use of technology within the financial services sector into sharp focus. During lockdown, and in the ‘new normal’, both customers and service providers have had to adapt to the fact that our physical world is increasingly being replaced by a digital one. This […]
Born Digital: Reimagining Treasury with Goldman Sachs
After much anticipation, Goldman Sachs has entered the transaction banking arena – firing on all cylinders. Taking a digital-first approach to its cash management platform, the bank looks set to change the playing field for corporate treasurers. Eduardo Vergara, Global Head, Product and Sales for Transaction Banking and Chad Wallace, Global Head of Digital Product […]