After the Ballots

How the ‘year of elections’ reshaped treasury priorities

Understanding Carry Trades and How They Can Be Used: A Guide for CFOs and Treasurers

Understanding the intricacies of various financial strategies is paramount for CFOs and treasurers. One such strategy is the carry trade, a concept that can significantly impact corporate finances and investment portfolios. Why carry trades matter today Interest rate differentials have been relatively subdued since mid-2023 following a period of significant tightening by central banks globally. […]

Strengthening FX Risk Management Through Clarity and Vision

Many global organisations lack confidence in the accuracy of their FX exposures. Whether they struggle to gather reliable FX forecasts needed to assess the risk or fail to account for the impact of currency fluctuations, visibility gaps impact financial statements and ultimately profitability. Looking under the hood, there are often disconnects among people, teams, processes, […]

Music to a Treasurer’s Ears

With higher interest rates and global geopolitical tensions, corporate treasurers must ensure that their approach to FX risk management is suitably robust for this challenging environment.

FX Risk Elimination, Cost Savings, Centralisation 

Kantox emphasises the importance of automation for FX hedging.

Exposure Meter

Is volatility in commodity pricing simply accepted, or can treasury leverage its understanding of mitigation processes and financial tools to add value?

Europe’s New Trading Partners: Managing FX Risks and Shifts in 2024

Treasurers must adapt to combat new challenges from an FX risk management standpoint

Treasurers Debate How to Manage Cash in Volatile Times 

Treasurers from Tui, S4 Capital, PPD, Rentokil Initial, and Diploma examined how treasurers are coping with recent spikes in interest rates, and FX.

Navigating the Economic Environment and Managing Risk

Michiel Mannaerts (PwC) provides expert advice around how treasury teams can proactively manage multiple varieties of risk and improve their hedging strategies in 2024.

Treasury’s Role in Creating a Digital Marketplace

This whitepaper outlines the steps corporate treasurers should take to create and support digital marketplaces.

How to Write a Robust Treasury Policy and Limit Unwanted Outcomes

Treasury policy is the executive mandate to the treasurer, as custodian of financial risk. This in-depth yet accessible guide explains how to get it right.

Testing the Future: FX Scenario Modelling for All

Effective control of foreign transaction fee budgets means FX scenario modelling. Danny Ross, Managing Director, Argentex, a global payment and currency risk management specialist, tells TMI why. Every business setting cost pricing or managing its budget with foreign transaction fees should at least consider implementing FX scenario modelling into its financial strategy. But according to […]

Payments Without Borders: An Evolution Within Transactional FX

Carl Cooper (J.P. Morgan) delves into a plethora of hot topics in the transactional FX space.

Automating FX Risk and Optimising Hedging: A Fresh Look

Experts from Dräger and Nomentia provide an overview of a project undertaken by Dräger to automate the calculations of its FX exposures.

FX and International Payments

There are proactive steps that treasurers could take today to get a better handle on their currency exposures.

Optionality and Automation

Paco De Haro and Gibran Maqsood (Barclays) consider fresh approaches to hedging, as well as where state-of-the-art automation technologies can add value.

Travelling Without Moving

TMI talks to Amit Baraskar, Vice President & Head – Treasury, Thomas Cook India Group, about his treasury journey.

Reducing Friction in International Payments

Three experts from Barclays share their insights into creating a frictionless payments landscape.

Podcast – Effective Hedging and FX Automation: Key Steps in Uncertain Times

Paco De Haro and Gibran Maqsood (Barclays) examine the hot topic of FX – covering hedging, payments, and everything in between.

Are Cross-border Payments Still Slowing Down Business?

If someone had asked this question in 2002, most of us would have felt certain that cross-border payments would be sorted out by 2022. While customer offerings for both cross-border transactions and FX have improved significantly in the past 20 years, thanks to a revolution in the digital economy, I don’t think we would say […]

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 […]

Finastra and HSBC collaborate to bring Banking as a Service FX capability to mid-tier banks

The move will enable banks to embed FX services directly into corporate and branch channels

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 […]

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 […]