Saving the Planet and Boosting Profits
How Treasury can Support ESG in the Supply Chain An organisation’s commitment to ESG – environmental, social, and governance – must go beyond lip service, extending into real behavioural and cultural changes both within the organisation and its external partners. Treasurers can facilitate the transition to sustainable practices by providing payment incentives to deserving suppliers […]
As Easy as ESG
Integrating Sustainability into Everyday Treasury As sustainability, diversity, equity, and inclusion matters continue to grow in importance for a range of corporate stakeholders, treasurers are in a prime position to support the transition to ESG-friendly practices. Here, three experts from NatWest explain how treasury teams can achieve this, with the help of an expanding toolkit […]
Feel The Fear, And Do It Anyway
My Life in Treasury: Aimee Cullen Aimee Cullen, Head of Treasury, CarTrawler, is on a mission. As a committee member of the Irish Association of Corporate Treasurers (IACT), she is leading an initiative to raise awareness about the world of treasury “in the hope it will attract more people to the field”. She talks to […]
Diversity and Teamwork
Building Treasury Relationships The merger in 2016 that formed leading global advisory, broking, and solutions company WTW cultivated an environment of constant change for the firm’s treasury. In a recent TMI podcast, Frances Cavanagh, Director, Treasury Operations, and Rivka Attal, Senior Treasury Operations Manager, explored how strong relationships have been the key to success. Sophie […]
Celebrating ESG and D&I Leaders
Meet the Treasury4Good Champions TMI’s Treasury4Good Awards, which have rapidly become a benchmark for sustainable innovation in the industry, celebrate the best ESG and D&I initiatives among corporates, banks, and technology vendors. Read on to discover how cutting-edge companies are embracing sustainability, supporting diversity, and challenging traditional ways of doing business – to the benefit […]
Trade Winds: Six Ways Treasurers Can Harness Supply Chain Disruptors
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been huge disruption to established supply chains. Treasurers must now consider everything from increased commodity risk to new FX requirements and growing ESG expectations. NatWest’s Mirka Skrzypczak, Head of Working Capital & Trade Products, and Rowan Austin, Head of Trade Origination and Advisory, outline six steps […]
Trading Up: Supply Chain Trends Impacting Treasury
If you need a clear, concise and definitive guide to SCF in 2022 and 2023 then look no further! Due to their remit as financial risk assessors, treasurers need to understand the pitfalls associated with supply chain disruption. In this podcast, hosted by TMI’s Eleanor Hill, our expert guests Rowan Austin and Mirka Skrzypczak (NatWest) […]
Smart, Digital and Sustainable Treasury Wins the Day
Standard Chartered embraces the art of possible, taking home 11 Awards for its innovative digital and ESG-focused transaction banking solutions With an advisory solutions-based approach, a focus on ease of integration, and innovation through collaboration driving co-creation of solutions with clients and fintechs, Standard Chartered is a powerhouse in the Asia Pacific region. In recent […]
Eyes on the Prize: Why Funding Balance Sheet Efficiency is Key for 2022
Funding diversity and working capital efficiency are strategically critical to address intensifying capital structure pressure, writes Shoaib Yaqub, Global Head, Capital Structure Advisory, Standard Chartered. The Covid-19 pandemic and associated supply chain stress of last year have put corporates under pressure to reinforce balance sheets and squeeze everything they can from the assets at their […]
ESG: Time to Decide
The pressure to comply with ESG initiatives is being felt by corporates like never before, with new research from Economist Impact suggesting that becoming ESG-compliant was the most common concern among treasury departments in Q4 2021. TMI talks to Lavinia Bauerochse, Global Head of ESG Corporate Bank, Deutsche Bank, and a member of its Corporate […]
Mind the Gap! Overcoming Obstacles to Short-term ESG Investing
While treasurers have repeatedly shown interest in using ESG-related short-term investment instruments, actual investment levels have yet to match these aspirations. Recent research from ICD explores the gap between intention and execution in treasury investments. Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) has risen up the treasury and finance agenda in recent years, with banks and financial […]
The Future of ESG in Treasury
In this podcast, Melissa Moi, Peter Jameson and Venkat ES from Bank of America join TMI’s Eleanor Hill to determine where the ESG journey is heading next. Our expert panel consider how changing regulation, technology solutions and metrics including ESG KPIs are shaping the role of treasurers to become purveyors of sustainable finance. Furthermore, our […]
Embracing Supplier Diversity: Treasury Lessons from Facebook and GSK
By focusing on the diversity and inclusion elements of external relationships within the supply chain, corporates can create additional value and efficiencies. Here, treasurers are being urged to ‘roll up their sleeves’ and get involved in this potentially transformative process. With diversity and inclusion (D&I) now well established on the corporate agenda, and companies continually […]
HSBC’s Sibos Spotlight: Investing in the Future – from Diversity to Green Deposits
In the final instalment of HSBC’s Sibos Spotlight, Eleanor Hill (TMI) invites Nadine Lagarmitte and Suraj Kalati (HSBC) to consider how corporates’ attitudes to ESG are changing, including a growing interest in ESG investment. Our guests explain the incentives behind HSBC’s green deposit scheme, explore how ESG product development is evolving in response to tighter […]
HSBC’s Sibos Spotlight: The ESG Landscape – what every treasurer needs to know
In the third edition of HSBC’s Sibos Spotlight Podcast series, TMI’s Eleanor Hill invites Farnam Bidgoli (HSBC) to provide an in-depth overview of the current ESG landscape, so that treasurers can build a credible sustainability strategy. Amongst an excess of ESG insights, our guest explains how treasury teams can prepare for upcoming regulatory changes including […]
Unpacking Smurfit Kappa’s Ambitious Sustainable Finance Facility
By setting five key performance indicator goals for a recent sustainability-linked revolving credit facility – and requiring success in all of them to gain the maximum margin benefit – Smurfit Kappa’s treasury team has demonstrated how a cross-functional project can unify an entire business. This award-winning financing project has also illustrated how treasury can not […]
Stepping Out from the Shadows
“Treasurers needs to step out of the shadows and into the sunshine in terms of their strategic contribution.” claims Zitah McMillan, Co-Founder and CEO, Predictive Black. In this podcast, hosted by TMI’s Eleanor Hill, our guest declares that the time has come for an industry shake up, not only is more gender-based diversity required for […]
Treasury KPIs for ESG and D&I: Time to Get Serious
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives are now a boardroom priority – and an increasingly important part of the treasurer’s strategic remit. Nevertheless, only a quarter of treasury departments currently have key performance indicators relating to ESG. Helen Kelly, Head of Europe, Barclays Corporate Banking, examines the types of ESG initiatives and targets leading treasury […]
Diversity and Teamwork: Building Treasury Relationships
The merger process of Willis Towers Watson has cultivated an environment of constant change for the firm’s treasury team. We were delighted to invite Frances Cavanagh and Rivka Attal (WTW) to outline the initiatives that have embodied the team’s D&I journey so far. Sophie Cartwright (BNP Paribas) also joins our guests to discuss how close […]
The Rise of ESG: Business Drivers and Treasury Imperatives
More and more treasurers are getting involved in environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives. Not only financing them but also embedding them into treasury processes and spearheading departmental sustainability projects. ESG is now widely recognised as an opportunity to innovate, add value, improve risk management, and contribute to long-term growth. The importance that C-level executives […]