Know Your Customer (KYC)

The rising cost of commodities is having a significant impact on the availability of credit and will force corporate treasurers to work more collaboratively with their banks to secure financing, writes Christoph Gugelmann, Co-Founder and CEO, Tradeteq. The war in...

BNP Paribas scales new heights, winning seven TMI Awards in tandem with its clients.

Eleanor Hill (TMI) invites Dick Oskam and Bert Van Drie (ING) into the TreasuryCast hotseat to find out what trends treasurers want to see emerge from the Request for Proposal (RFP) and Request for Information (RFI) space. In this informative discussion, our guests...

Business-to-business marketplaces are on the rise in almost every business sector. As the shift to digital sales requires a new payment strategy and innovative technology, corporate treasurers must take the initiative and put themselves in the driving seat to...

Treasury and procurement should be strong partners, especially when it comes to managing supply chain finance. Yet despite the advantages for all parties of such programmes, often there are not enough hours in the day to get the best from them. Enter the third-party...

Following the launch of Verafide, the UK’s first open source blockchain-based platform for verifiable credentials, TMI talks to the firm’s technical adviser about know your customer policies and other corporate uses cases. The processes attached to client...

Ingka Group, the largest franchisee of the IKEA brand, with 390 stores in 32 countries, is not currently using digital currencies, but is following their progress closely. It is building its knowledge and understanding of the market, and assessing when the right time...

In this podcast, Cornelia Hesse (EACT/ VDT) speaks to Noëlle Belmimoun (ArcelotMittal/ AFTE), Patrick Holemans (SWIFT), Séverine Le Blévennec (Aliaxis), Tarek Tranberg (EACT) and Stephan Wolf (GLEIF) about how treasurers can streamline customer-reference data and...

An Answer for Everything? Know Your Customer requirements have long been a headache for corporate treasurers. Could blockchain resolve the pain points in the KYC journey? Are there any downsides to using distributed ledger technology in this instance? This article...

In an era where arguably even normally dependable gilts have shifted from being ‘risk-free returns’ to ‘return-free risks’, have cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin finally become viable assets? Or has recent market turbulence, coupled with regulatory inte...

When the first ever government-backed, sharia-compliant, gold-based financial infrastructure was launched in Indonesia this month, it signalled new ways of thinking about corporate payments and yield generation. TMI decided to find out more. Payments systems come and...

The newly established Hellenic Association of Treasurers (HAT) aims to support a vibrant community of Greek treasurers, both at home and abroad. Here, Alexandros Bellos, board member and Co-Founder of HAT, who is also Senior Treasury Manager at PVH Corporation, is...