Shifting From Aid to Trade is the Key to Africa’s Sustainable Future
Jolene Abshire, Sector Head for Development Organisations, Absa Group, discusses the shifting dynamics of donor funding for Africa in recent years, explaining how moving from traditional aid to trade-centric models can help the continent to support its own initiatives, economy, and resources. Donor funding to Africa is shrinking as budgets dwindle. Global crises, such as […]
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 […]
Taking Care of Business
ESG’s Role in Supply Chain Resilience In the second of this three-part series taking a supply chain finance perspective on some of the foremost issues of the day, experts from Taulia – Blake Evans, Head of Sales for Americas, Alexander Mutter, Managing Director EMEA, and Steve Scott, Head of Sales APAC – consider how ESG […]
Treasury and Procurement – Closer Than Ever?
Interactions between treasury and procurement spiked during the Covid-19 pandemic, as both departments dealt with the emergency that global lockdowns triggered for corporate supply chains. As we move into the next stage of managing the crisis, strengthening engagement between the two departments offers efficiency opportunities for team members and the wider organisation. While they tend […]
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 […]
No Looking Back: Digital Payments and Real-time Transactions for All
Real-time technologies are not intended as stand-alone tools, they require an ecosystem of complementary processes and systems to really reap their benefits. TMI seeks best practice guidance from Bank of America experts, Aziz Parvez, Head of Corporate Treasury Sales, Asia Pacific, Global Transaction Services, Sunil Bhatia, Head of Payments and Bank Transformation, Asia Pacific, Global […]
Accelerated Digitalisation in Africa: a Welcome Outcome of the Pandemic
Digitisation of treasury processes had been developing slowly but surely across Africa until the pandemic hit. Now it has taken off in a big way. The results are impressive, as Thabo Makoko, Head of Cash Management and Transactional Banking, Absa CIB, explains. To find the most exciting developments in digitalisation, many companies used to look […]
Building a Competitive Supply Chain: Putting Ethics First
Alistair Baxter, Head of Receivables Finance at working capital management company Taulia, discusses the key macro challenges that treasury professionals need to consider now to drive growth. He also outlines how ESG can lend a competitive advantage in supply chains. The turbulence of the current macro environment has business strategists puzzling over where the next […]
Finding Funding: Digital Networks Enabling Access to Trade Finance
Amid a prolonged period of turbulence for global trade, many businesses face ongoing struggles to access the trade finance they need to support their trade operations and working capital requirements. However, a new industry survey suggests that a different approach could be key to addressing this issue. Jeanette Jones, Head of Corporates, Fineon Exchange, explains […]
Rising Commodity Prices Damaging SME Credit Lines
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 Ukraine continues to devastate global trade and development as well as human life. A report […]
Overcoming Barriers to Creating Sustainable Supply Chains
More corporates are facing barriers to incorporating sustainability into their supply chains at a time when ESG is rising fast and high on the corporate agenda. A recent HSBC research report, based on a survey of 415 large corporates across Asia Pacific, has shown that 43% of companies encounter barriers to incorporating sustainability into their […]
All For One
Danone’s multi-phase technology-fuelled project tackling risk in Asia has created a more agile, resilient, and connected operation Over the last 12 to 18 months, accelerated by the onset of the pandemic, Danone’s treasury initiated an ambitious multi-phased project with a view to transforming its treasury and risk management in Asia. The team has enabled faster […]
Supply Chain Sustainability: Always in Demand
Philips partners with C2FO to deliver low-cost early payment to suppliers of all sizes Philips, the multinational health technology company, has the same forward-thinking approach to ESG initiatives as it does to its technological innovation. With the roll-out of a solution to support its suppliers’ cash needs that offers fair and affordable access to liquidity […]
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 […]
Why Businesses Must Look Beyond the Pandemic For Supply Chain Efficiency
Supply chains have come under close scrutiny in the past couple of years – and many have been found wanting. As issues compound, and show no sign of abating, is it too early to start looking beyond the pandemic response for new, more efficient models? Never has so much attention been directed towards the world’s […]