Closing in on Payments Nirvana
Instant Cross-border Treasury Transactions While domestic faster payments schemes have seen excellent traction over the past decade, obtaining the same visibility and control of cash flows in the cross-border world has been far more challenging. This is now changing, however, as consumer pressure, regulation, and technology propel the prospect of a real-time cross-border payments ecosystem […]
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 […]
API Days: From Talk to Action
Since the first APIs started appearing in the bank-to-treasury space a few years ago, driven in part by the open banking revolution, there has been much talk of their transformational power. We consider the reality behind the claim, exploring the possibilities and the limitations. The promise of system flexibility, agility, and scalability is a potent […]
APIs for Payments and More: Practical Insights
TMI’s Eleanor Hill is joined by Daniela Eder and Maarten van Rossum (Barclays) to discuss how the connectivity ecosystem is evolving, and what corporate treasurers can expect to see emerge from this space in 2022. Our guests take a detailed look into the key technology underpinning this development, APIs, and consider their concrete use cases […]
Creating a Connected Financial Office
When data flows are connected, it’s so much easier to make quick and accurate decisions. This is the principle behind the notion of the connected financial office. In this podcast, Gareth Priest (Bottomline Technologies) provides informed advice on how treasurers can go beyond the four walls of business and forge successful partnerships between the company, […]
Real-Time Transformation: Creating a Connected Financial Office
When data flows are connected, it’s so much easier to make quick and accurate decisions. This is the principle behind the emerging notion of the connected financial office. But how can finance teams achieve the level of unity required to start unlocking the benefits? Gareth Priest, Chief Platform Officer, Bottomline Technologies, considers the keys to […]
A New Treasury Ecosystem: Open Banking, APIs, and BaaS
For this special edition of TreasuryCast, Eleanor Hill invites Peter Claus-Landi (GE) and Jared Smith (HSBC) to cover how key API-centric developments are changing the treasury landscape. With APIs significantly altering the way that corporates connect with their banks, our guests provide a candid perspective of the benefits – including a detailed overview of GE’s […]
Best Strategies for Driving Cash Visibility: Advice You Can’t Google
What are the best strategies for facilitating cash visibility, and how can treasurers promote everlasting tech adoption within their departments? Serrala’s Nancy Zhang takes a seat in the virtual TreasuryCast studio to answer these two burning questions and more, providing insight into how treasurers can leverage a combination of technology, data, and strategic oversight to […]
An Open Invitation to Treasury Efficiency
Practical Use Cases for Open Banking While it remains something of a mystery to many corporate treasurers, open banking is much more than a collection of acronyms and regulatory endeavours. In fact, it is the basis of an evolving financial ecosystem that holds significant potential benefits for modern treasury departments. Here, two senior leaders from […]
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 […]
Adding Value with Veterans
From enlisting in the Australian Army straight out of high school, to now being Vice President in the Wholesale Payments group at J.P. Morgan, via offshore oil and gas drilling, Andrew Smith’s career trajectory has given him diverse and valuable insights to deploy in banking. Here, he speaks to Eleanor Hill about his career and […]
Taking Digital Treasury to the Next Level: A No-Nonsense Guide
Introduction Conor MaherHead of Transaction Banking Products, NatWest Moving beyond the Covid catalyst For many corporate treasurers, 2020 was a crash course in digital transformation. As companies adjusted to global lockdown and remote working as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, digital operations quickly became essential. This swift pivot away from manual processes and on-premise […]
Open Your Eyes to the Benefits of Open Banking
An untapped opportunity is a rare prize in the corporate treasury community, but open banking offers this potential. By leveraging the digital infrastructure that open banking creates, corporates can harness real-time data, benefit from new ways to pay and collect instantly, and ultimately leverage the evolving digital ecosystem to improve process- and cost efficiency. In […]
Open Banking in the Middle East: Driving Adoption
Since 2018, when Open Banking was launched in the UK and Europe’s revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) was implemented, regulators around the globe have embraced a shift towards innovation that, finally, is helping the end-consumer. Indeed, the spirit of Open Banking has been a catalyst for many initiatives in different regions. Open Banking has now […]
From Ancient Rome to the Digital World
The second instalment of Standard Chartered’s Regulatory Readiness Series for Corporates explores the impact on treasury of the regulatory necessity to respond to immediate threat while delivering on long-term planning needs. Rome was not built in a day. As with every embryonic settlement, the immediate concerns of protection and security were tackled first; only then […]
Why Banking Has to Shape Up or Ship Out
EY’s recent report on the state of the corporate, commercial, and SME banking market points to a number of problems in the sector, before providing several solutions. Treasurers interested in moulding the future with their key partners should get involved in the discussion now. EY’s report, ‘How will banks transform to build the next generation […]
Are APIs Really Delivering the Goods?
The noise around APIs is particularly raucous in the financial services world, but are they delivering on the promise to bring a host of new products and services to end-users? TMI asks Sindhu Vadakath, Head of Global Digital Channels and Asia Payments Product Management, BNY Mellon, to assess progress. That said, the volume of chatter […]