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October 2020 3 Min Read

Real-time Multi-Bank Reporting Through Open Banking

Open banking is not just a retail banking phenomenon. This global trend also has the potential to significantly improve the working lives of corporate treasurers – by enabling aggregated, real-time, multi-bank reporting at the click of a button. Open banking is...

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May 2020 6 Min Read

Goodbye, Excel: Automating Bank Guarantees at Arup

A frequent user of bank guarantees to support its business, the treasury function at Arup was frustrated by using Excel spreadsheets for the application, maintenance and reporting of guarantees. Automating the process through a module from Trezone was the key to...

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March 2020 7 Min Read

Changing the Rules of the Game: A New Dawn for FX Risk Management

From micro-hedging to leveraging data analytics, technology is radically changing the way treasurers manage foreign exchange (FX) risk. Philippe Gelis, CEO and Co-Founder, Kantox, discusses the true value of automating FX hedging, explains the role of analytics in...

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October 2019 4 Min Read

Digital Treasury: Can it Tackle the Cash Forecasting Challenge?

Several decades ago, Excel was invented to process/model inputs and generate outputs. Today, it is still by far the most used technology to generate a cash flow forecast. However, as we strive to achieve better forecasting accuracy rates, our desire for automation and...

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June 2018 10 Min Read

Setting up a Treasury in Romania for Skanska

In 2011, after more than nine years running treasury and risk management in one of the largest construction companies in Poland, Skanska SA, I was invited to start the company’s operations in Romania, which would be concerned with construction and office...

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May 2018 11 Min Read

Treasury Transformation: Achieving Operational and Financial Efficiency

Endemol Shine Group, a leading media company that produces and distributes multi-platform entertainment content, wanted to invest in new, longer-term projects to meet growing audience demand. But as a highly leveraged organisation, the company needed to self-fund these...