Cash Insight: a Tale of Augmented Collections
Insight Enterprises is a Fortune 500 global IT solutions integrator. With its finance function managing around 10,000 invoices per day on the back of nearly $10bn in revenues, Lynn Willden, Senior Vice President Finance, Treasury and Tax, Insight Enterprises, knew the business needed help to secure and accelerate its cash flows, and support for its […]
Technology’s Co-Starring Role in Supply Chain Transformation
In the final article of this three-part series taking a working capital perspective on some of the foremost issues of the day, experts from SAP-owned fintech, Taulia – Blake Evans, Head of Sales for Americas, Alexander Mutter, Managing Director EMEA, and Steve Scott, Head of Sales APAC – explore how companies can best use technology […]
Creating Emerging Market Supply Chain Opportunities
Even robust mid-market firms in emerging markets can experience difficulties in securing sufficient finance to grow. It can mean larger established-market buyers and suppliers are needlessly losing opportunities to work with these firms. TMI discovers how one fintech is seeking to bridge the funding gap. Supply chains are often a complex global arrangement, with participants […]
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 […]
Three Ways to Better Manage Cash Flow
As the pandemic continues to disrupt how companies do business, it’s even more critical for leaders to have access to accurate cash flow projections. The pandemic shed light on major weaknesses in the ways companies predict their cash positions. These include lack of access to a complete view of data, as well as limited analytics […]
Managing the Impact of Rising Interest Rates and Inflation
With interest rates rising as central banks try to contain inflation, a difficult balancing act is in progress. The responses of the various monetary policy committees are being watched with a keen eye by treasurers the world over as they consider their next actions. Tarek El-Yafi, Regional Head of Cash Management Sales, and Karen Hom, […]
Making the Sustainable Transition: A Roadmap to ESG in Treasury
Over the last 18 months, Societe Generale has experienced a steady increase in requests from their corporate clients to integrate ESG features in treasury management. Louis-David Rouyer, Philippe Pougeard, and Emmanuelle Petelle (Societe Generale) provide TMI’s Eleanor Hill with a whistlestop run through of the bank’s ESG and CSR integration journey, touching on the progress […]
Cereal Winner
Kellogg Company partners with Cashforce to create a smart forecasting solution offering new working capital insights and KPIs By pairing Cashforce’s Working Capital Insights solution with a newly introduced company-wide data-driven mindset, Kellogg Company has made significant improvements to its forecasting processes, tightened its working capital cycles, and realised huge savings. It’s a project for […]
Giving Cash Processing a Real-time Boost
Jabil’s global AP structure streamlined with Serrala FS2. Serrala Alevate CashApp is delivering next-level AR processing For US-based high-tech manufacturer Jabil, AP was spread globally across three shared services centres. With manual processing and no standardisation, it was time for cash processing to get a technology boost. Serrala delivered in a project that TMI is […]
The Treasury Forecast is Bright and Breezy
Bank of America’s intelligent innovations give treasurers a clear view ahead Any initiative that makes a treasurer’s working day easier is welcomed by the community. So, it comes as no surprise to see Bank of America scoop two of TMI’s coveted Technology & Innovation Awards in 2021 for its mobile app and forecasting developments, while […]
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 […]
Trade Assets: A New Way of Managing Short-term Liquidity
Does it make sense for treasurers to develop an investment strategy that incorporates short-term payables and receivables from the global supply chain? Guy Brooks, Head of Distribution for Working Capital Finance, Pemberton, certainly thinks so. He explains the treasury opportunities to TMI. The short-term payables and receivables of large- and mid-market US and European corporates […]
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 […]
Brighter Skies Ahead: Treasury Best Practice in a Post-Covid Environment
Treasury best practices have been both forged and accelerated during the pandemic. A recent TMI webinar explored the key themes of the latest Journeys to Treasury report, reflecting on the changing nature of treasury, the digitisation of the function, and how the ecosystem of treasurers, banks and service providers can best work together. The Journeys […]
BNP Paribas Connects Webasto Korea to the Global Family
When Germany-headquartered international automotive supplier Webasto Group decided to acquire its long-standing Korean joint venture partner Donghee, some major changes were needed within the local finance function. International banking partner BNP Paribas helped deliver a globally standardised, efficient, and secure cash management operation. Sometimes in business it makes perfect sense to bring a close partner […]