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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Modern, Agile, and Efficient Machine
TMI spoke to Raphael Barisaac, UniCredit’s Global Head of Cash Management, and Massimo Ortino, Global Head of Financial Institutions Sales, about how the firm’s new strategy in transactions and payments reflects the dynamics of a changing global market. UniCredit’s new CEO Andrea Orcel, who took the helm in April 2021, has big plans to tackle […]
Liquidity Sea Change
By connecting all money market fund participants digitally for the first time, Calastone is reshaping how treasurers see liquidity Calastone Money Market Services is all about helping companies, public sector organisations and financial institutions balance their liquidity, risk and yield objectives when investing surplus cash. The technological approach it has to its global network is […]
Taming the Triple Threat
Macro Risk Management in 2022 The first quarter of 2022 has already presented numerous challenges on both geopolitical and macroeconomic fronts – from the ongoing pandemic to inflation risk, trade disruptions, and huge political tensions. TMI invites three experts from NatWest to explain why risk management needn’t be a Herculean task in the year ahead. […]
Keeping a Finger on the Pulse of Trade Finance Advancements
Big data, blockchain, the Internet of Things and AI are set to revolutionise trade and supply chain finance, reveals a Commerzbank and Fraunhofer whitepaper. A recent industry report has indicated a turning point for the global trade and supply chain finance (SCF) industries, driven by emerging technologies and the increasing volume of data. Commerzbank, in […]
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 […]
NFTs in Treasury? Establishing Use Cases in Trade Finance and Beyond
The world’s first trade finance-based non-fungible token transaction in 2021 highlights the need for treasurers to understand the technology behind tokenisation and the practical implications that it could have for corporate finance.
A New Treasury Ecosystem: Leveraging the Evolution of Transaction Banking
Treasury is not an island; it is influenced and supported by the ecosystem that surrounds it. Transaction banks play a pivotal role within this network – and they are continually innovating to enable treasurers to leverage industry developments such as banking-as-a-service. As a result, business models are changing, sustainability is rising in importance, and co-creation […]
Payments Vision 2025: The Inside Track
Wim Grosemans, Steven Lenaerts (BNP Paribas) and Wim Raymaekers (SWIFT) join TMI’s Eleanor Hill to outline their vision for the payments landscape in 2025. Our guests consider how recent developments such as instant payments, real-time treasury, and digital currencies could shake up the treasury community of the future, and envision how the financial ecosystem as […]
Treasury in 2030
5 Practical Steps for Preparing Ahead No-one knows precisely what the future holds, but a successful digital treasury team must be able to adjust quickly to the evolving ecosystem – and be able to scale at speed. In this article, four industry experts outline their visions of a digital treasury function in 2030 and explain […]