Three Key Fintech Trends in Europe

Fintech net revenues in Europe are expected to grow faster than in North America and APAC. Treasurers should pay attention to the drivers for this change.

The Never-Ending Passion: A Treasurer’s Tale of Risk and Reward

Dominic Lynch (GoStudent) details his treasury journey so far, from his role in Bitpanda’s treasury team to the founding of his risk scoring fintech, Value Block.

Both Sides of the Digital Coin

Specialists from NatWest highlight the profound impact CBDCs could have on treasury operations.

From Blockbuster to Netflix and Beyond: CBDCs Reshaping the Future of Payments

Are CBDCs any closer to making a starring role in the story of corporate treasury? A TMI TreasuryCast, supporting HSBC’s 2022 Sibos Spotlight series, sought to separate the facts from the fiction. Technical expertise was supplied by Søren Mortensen, Director, Global Financial Markets Transformation, IBM, and Mark Williamson, Managing Director Global Head of FX Partnerships […]

TMI’s View from Sibos – with Lee McNabb, NatWest

Lee McNabb (NatWest) provides listeners with a valuable overview of the current happenings in the crypto marketplace.

Using CBDCs for Cross-Ledger Multi-Asset Transactions

Mark Williamson (HSBC) and Søren Mortensen (IBM) explore how attitudes have changed to CBDCs over the last 12 months.

Exploring the Post-Pandemic Treasury Technology Frontier

One silver lining from the Covid-19 pandemic is that it has supercharged trends around treasury technology – both in the adoption of new technology by corporates and the development of cutting-edge technologies that will have treasury applications in the coming years. During a recent webinar, TMI’s Editor, Eleanor Hill, spoke with Royston Da Costa, Assistant […]

New Heights for Bank and Technology Innovation

Showcasing the 2021 Award Winners The nominations for TMI’s 2021 Awards for Innovation and Excellence were not only more numerous than ever, but also pushed the boundaries of corporate treasury development further than ever before. All of the bank, technology vendor and fintech winners have created solutions that respond to real needs – present and […]

Digital Money

Are digital currencies an Orwellian nightmare in the making or a valuable solution for continued global trade?

Honing in on the Future of Payments

Eleanor Hill (TMI) is joined by David Cunningham and Naveed Anwar (Citi) to discuss current offering available to treasurers that will drive payments innovation.

Podcast – Tokenisation and CBDCs: Where Now, Where Next?

Lee McNabb, Oliver Butcher, and David Silver (NatWest) join TMI’s Eleanor Hill for a candid discussion regarding the application of digital assets in a treasury context.

HSBC’s Sibos Spotlight – View from Sibos

Neil Atkinson, Nadine Lagarmitte, and Vinay Mendonca (HSBC) discuss the critical treasury topics and conversations highlighted at this year’s Sibos conference.

TMI’s View from Sibos – with Richard Southey, ABSA

Richard Southey (ABSA) discusses the current status of corporate payments and digitalisation across Africa.

Getting Flexible: Treasury’s Response to Deglobalisation

The recent publication of the Deutsche Bank-sponsored Economist Intelligence Unit survey, ‘Manoeuvring uncertainty: Treasury priorities in a volatile, post-pandemic market’, revealed rising macroeconomic concerns within the treasury community. TMI and Christof Hofmann, Global Head of Corporate Cash Management, Deutsche Bank, explore the impact. With rising protectionism and calls for deglobalisation among the political classes, it’s […]

What to Do with Corporate Cash in Challenging Times

Corporate treasurers have myriad challenges to contend with in the short-term investment space. Here, Richard Hallett (Aviva Investors), Ed Lopez (Calastone) and Patrick Kunz (Pecunia Treasury & Finance) outline how to successfully navigate these roadblocks, debunk incoming regulations, and assess ‘step out’ strategies. Furthermore, our guests discuss the possibility of investing in instruments such as […]

Why the World of Crypto Assets is Not a Good Place to Play Hide and Seek

Fraudsters, current and potential, planning to conceal their ill-gotten gains in the world of crypto assets are now having a rude awakening. Their actions will almost certainly leave a trail, and aspects of the transparent nature of the underlying blockchain technology often enable ‘hidden’ crypto assets to be both found and seized, much more quickly […]

The Unicorn Treasurer

Creating a centralised treasury model from scratch isn’t easy. But risk specialist Dominic Lynch, Head of Treasury at GoStudent has done it at this firm and his prior company, Bitpanda.

HSBC Sibos Spotlight – Exploring the Universe of Digital Assets and HSBC’s Orion

John O’Neill and Zhu Kuang Lee (HSBC) discuss the innovative activity happening around asset tokenisation.

Need-to-Know: Regulatory Impacts on Asia Payments

Standard Chartered Bank provide a detailed payments regulation overview for markets in Asia and highlight where treasurers must pay attention.

The Search for Yield

TMI explores some of the options open to treasurers wanting to revisit their investment policies.

TMI’s View from Sibos – with Susana Delgado, SWIFT

Susana Delgado (SWIFT) sits down with TMI’s Eleanor Hill to cover the role of SWIFT Go in the treasury space.

Audio TMI – NFTs in Treasury?

The world’s first trade finance-based non-fungible token transaction highlights the need for treasurers to understand the technology behind tokenisation and the practical implications that it could have for corporate finance.

Mercury Rising: Taking the Temperature of European Corporate Treasurers

According to this year’s responses to the EACT’s annual pan-European survey, the pandemic has not changed the top priorities of corporate treasurers. Instead, it has crystallised the need for increased digitisation. The European Association of Corporate Treasurers’ (EACT’s) annual survey reveals the top priorities for treasurers during the year ahead, identifies critical challenges facing the […]

ETFs and Tokenised Funds: New Building Blocks of Treasury Investment?

In the December 2021 Calastone Connect Forum, experts considered how exchange traded funds and tokenised funds could, and potentially should, become part of every treasurer’s asset class armoury for managing liquidity. Ed Lopez, Chief Revenue Officer, Calastone; Patrick Kunz, Treasury, Finance & Risk Consultant and Interim Treasurer, Pecunia Treasury & Finance; and Natacha Blackman, Fixed […]