The Need for Speed
How Treasurers are Making the Most of Instant Payments Instant payments is a topic that receives plenty of coverage, often under the assumption that everyone wants and needs it. Is this really the case for treasurers, and if so how and where does it fit? TMI spoke to Louis-David Rouyer, Deputy Head of Payments and […]
Corporate Innovators
The Best and the Brightest of 2021 2021 was arguably one of the most innovative years on record in the world of corporate treasury, based on the standard of entries to the TMI Corporate Recognition Awards. Here, we present a brief overview of the winning projects – which cannot possibly do justice to the magnitude […]
Treasury Innovators
FIS scoops Best Cash & Treasury Management Solution and supports a duo of corporate wins The TMI 2021 Awards season emphasises the role vendors can play in the success of their corporate clients. FIS not only takes the Technology & Innovation Award for Best Cash & Treasury Management Solution itself, but two of its clients […]
Out of this World Treasury Innovation
J.P. Morgan co-creates with clients to push the boundaries of digital treasury, scooping five Awards In February 2021, J.P. Morgan’s Onyx arm announced that it had executed a blockchain payment in space. The transaction took place between satellites orbiting Earth, in a first of its kind test of the Internet of Things (IoT) payments technology. […]
Flying the Flag for Next Generation Sustainable Treasury
BNP Paribas scales new heights, winning seven TMI Awards in tandem with its clients As corporate branding goes, BNP Paribas’ trademark green could not be more appropriate – the bank is leading the pack in terms of its sustainability commitments and solutions, and is TMI’s 2021 Global Bank of the Year for ESG. Bank Awards […]
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 […]
Payments Vision 2025: The Inside Track
Developments such as instant payments, digital currencies, and enriched data services are poised to shake up treasury management. In a recent podcast, TMI spoke to three experts to understand how, by working together, corporates and financial institutions are set to usher in new value-added services that benefit all parties. But treasurers are warned, don’t try […]
Payments Vision 2025: The Inside Track
Wim Grosemans, Steven Lenaerts (BNP Paribas) and Wim Raymaekers (SWIFT) join TMI’s Eleanor Hill to outline their vision for the payments landscape in 2025. Our guests consider how recent developments such as instant payments, real-time treasury, and digital currencies could shake up the treasury community of the future, and envision how the financial ecosystem as […]
ESG Spotlight: How to Recycle Plastic While Tackling Poverty
Plastic Bank is an international social enterprise organisation founded and based in Canada. It builds recycling ecosystems in underdeveloped communities, as a way of reducing plastic pollution and tackling high poverty levels. TMI talks to David Katz, Founder and CEO, Plastic Bank, about how it achieves its twin goals, and how corporates can get involved. […]
Paving the Way Towards Instant and Frictionless Payments
With SWIFT gpi bringing transparency and speed to the world of instant payments, it is pertinent to examine the difference in take-up between European and Asian banks. Also important is understanding what this level of ‘instantaneity’ means for the future of corporate treasury management. Instant payments are a new reality in many countries and their […]
The Rising Velocity of Cash and Data: Establishing a Real-time Treasury
As real-time payments and collections gain traction, the velocity of cash is accelerating. In turn, treasurers must move away from outdated systems and batch processing, while exploring the possibilities of real-time investing. They must also learn how to handle and analyse swathes of data ‘on demand’, to make the most of the 24/7/365 environment. Four […]
Come Together
Co-creation as a Source of Practical Innovation Treasurers are rightly wary of hype around innovation and new technologies, particularly ‘solutions looking for problems’. Co-creation between corporates and banks can help to avoid this pitfall by enabling treasurers to address real pain points with their banking partners. Pierre Fersztand, Global Head of Cash Management, Trade & […]
Introducing the Winners
Banks and Vendors Take Treasury to New Heights Bank Awards Where better to start this celebration of innovation and excellence than with the Global Bank of the Year for Cash And Liquidity Management – HSBC. Throughout 2020, the bank added to its digital capabilities, with a new cash flow forecasting tool and an enhanced mobile […]
Fast and Furious
Coupa Fulfilling Wish List for Cross-Border Payments TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION AWARDS Solution Innovation Fast, traceable, transparent and TMS-integrated cross-border payments on a worldwide basis are a wish-list item for many corporate treasury functions. Achieving speedier payment turnarounds, complete end-to-end tracking and full transparency along the entire payment chain globally is precisely what the Coupa/SWIFT gpi […]
BNP Paribas’ BENEtracker gives L’Oréal’s Beneficiaries Visibility on Incoming Payments
When none of the different parties of an international payment transaction knows where a payment is in transit, fixing any delays is a challenge. L’Oréal, with support from BNP Paribas has created a simple solution that shines a light on every payment-related move, for all involved. With L’Oréal Group executing international transfers on behalf of […]
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 long-term resilience. Here, four HSBC experts examine the challenges, risks and opportunities of embracing digital treasury capabilities – and […]
Co-Creation in Action: Treasury Evolution
Think co-creation is just a buzzword? Then it’s time to think again. As Pierre Fersztand, Global Head of Cash Management, Trade & Payments, BNP Paribas, explains, value-adding solutions are being implemented as a result of BNP Paribas’ interactive workshops with clients. Listen to this TreasuryCast episode to cut through the hype of co-creation and discover […]
Navigating SWIFT gpi for Corporates at Naval: BNP Paribas and Kyriba Join Forces
With innovative partnerships across the globe, Christophe Beuvard, Treasurer, Naval Group, knew that having full transparency over outgoing payments was vital for maintaining excellent supplier relationships. By working with BNP Paribas to implement SWIFT gpi for corporates and rolling out the bank’s new Pay and Trace capability, Naval Group can now self-track cross-border payments in […]
Inbound Payments Tracking: A Game-Changer in the Making
With SWIFT’s cross-border inbound tracking service for gpi becoming the latest addition to the treasurer’s toolkit, Nicolas Cailly, Deputy Head of Payments & Cash Management, Societe Generale, explains the new realms of possibility for treasurers. Receiving positive reviews from stakeholders from the outset, it is no surprise that Nicolas Cailly, Deputy Head of Payments & […]
Disruptive Treasury Tech: Perspectives from BofA
Technological disruption is the name of the game in financial services these days. With Bank of America’s Head of Cross-Product Solutions, Ayeesha Sachedina, speaking on a SIBOS panel later this week on the impact of AI, blockchain, automation, 5G, IoT and the like, the bank organised a press roundtable to bring some of its perspectives […]