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July 2021 1 Min Read

Covid-19 and Beyond: Convergence of a Healthcare Ecosystem

Digital transformation coupled with the emergence of HealthTech start-ups continues to drive rapid developments in the healthcare industry. The opportunity is vast, with total healthcare spend within the Asian corridor estimated to exceed USD4 trillion by 2024.[1] As...

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May 2021 5 Min Read

How Etihad Enhanced its Financial Controls using Microsoft AI

Etihad Airways has successfully deployed Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify erroneous payments to suppliers. In turn, this has saved the finance team precious time by reducing false positives, while correctly identifying payment anomalies that could have been...

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February 2021 6 Min Read

Connectivity Means Continuity

Calastone Connect Forum 2020 Calastone’s Connect Forum 2020 brought together a quartet of treasury professionals to discuss the role of technology in enabling more efficient cash management while managing risk. With all embroiled in the turmoil of 2020, the need for...

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February 2021 16 Min Read

The Resilient Treasurer: Building a Digital Armoury for 2021

Without question, the Covid-19 pandemic has strengthened the business case for digitisation and dramatically increased the pace of digital adoption. Treasury 4.0 technologies, such as data analytics and application programming interfaces, will be key to building...

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February 2021 5 Min Read

Leveraging Agile Treasury Technology to Deliver on Galls’ International Ambition

Rapid growth is a nice challenge to have. Nevertheless, Kendall Weissmueller, Corporate Controller, Galls, knew that the company’s finance team needed to upgrade its treasury technology to better support the organisation’s billion-dollar growth plans. Bottomline...

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October 2020 6 Min Read

The Case for Continuous Financial Planning after Covid-19

Financial planning has always been vital to businesses in order to make sound, long-term decisions. Companies use forecasting to make critical investments, plan for covenant compliance, and even decide on future mergers and acquisitions (M&A) strategies. In the...

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October 2020 5 Min Read

Finding a Cure for Cash

By adopting an innovative physical cash pooling solution Aspen Pharmacare, in partnership with BNP Paribas, has unleashed a host of improvements – from interest cost savings to simplifying the reconciliations process. Here’s how the teams achieved this joint...

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October 2020 6 Min Read

Accounts Receivable: A Journey to the Future

In ten years’ time, companies will probably still be working towards faster processing and enhanced business intelligence through automation and artificial intelligence (AI). It will be the new normal to store data in a single digital repository so that accounts...

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October 2019 6 Min Read

Only Collect: Digital Solutions Make the Difficult Things Simple for FCA Bank

While the uptake of sweeping initiatives, such as SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) and SWIFT gpi, tends to grab all the headlines, there remain a number of other pain points for banks and corporates that can be addressed only through close dialogue between both...

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May 2019 7 Min Read

Mining for Data Gold: Enhancing Reconciliations at Panini

With the aim of being as efficient as possible in its reconciliations, Panini was looking to achieve the same level of detailed information on cross-border collections as it was able to achieve on domestic collections. To help deliver this, Fabrizio Masinelli, Group...

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January 2019 7 Min Read

My Life in Treasury: Chris McLoughlin, Worldpay

If you ever find yourself being interviewed by Chris McLoughlin, tell him all about the times things went pear-shaped during your working day. He values confidence, resilience and tenacity in his team members and, in return, he offers adaptability, flexibility and...

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November 2018 8 Min Read

Taking Your TMS Beyond Treasury

The benefits of implementing a treasury management system (TMS) to optimise one’s treasury operation have been well-known for a number of years, but in recent times the traditional scope of the treasurer’s responsibilities and the tools at their disposal have...