Simply Treasury

JUNE 3, 2021

Every year, EACT launches a treasury survey to identify top priorities for Corporates. Treasury top priorities. The 2021 EACT survey, as it has become a tradition, attempts early this year to determine what the treasury trends and priorities for multinational companies will be in the next 12 to 24 months.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

“Being the world’s reserve currency, naturally regulators are going to take more time. Real-time settlement negates the need for batch settlement, which has been the norm in corporate treasury departments and within financial institutions (FIs) for decades. As a whole, the U.S. “The U.S. ” Coexisting Systems.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The rise of the coronavirus has spotlighted the need for corporate treasurers to make real-time decisions about cash management. Not so long ago, linking cash account statements across far-flung systems or operations would have taken days or weeks and extensive testing to synthesize all that data into one centralized presentation.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Corporate treasury professionals are reassessing investment strategies to stay agile and conserve cash amid interest rate shifts and geopolitical uncertainty. A sense of nervousness amid ongoing global disruption pervades strategic thinking across global treasury functions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

In the drive to modernize treasury operations, mind the gap — o r gaps. As it turns out, there may be a disconnect between what treasury professionals need in their day-to-day endeavor of cash management and what their service providers think they need.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2016

In a first for the Bank of China, the financial institution has linked up with its first foreign bank for interbank cash management of a corporate client. The two launched their co-hosted platform in January of this year to provide a centralized treasury management service for Bosch.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

While the corporate treasurer's fundamental role has remained steady, the treasury function has seen dramatic impacts from a changing market that is increasingly moving toward real time. For instance, both cash concentration and notional pooling can enable a treasurer to understand an end-of-day cash position.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 21, 2021

As liquidity became a significant concern for organizations, the Treasury Department was asked to monitor inflows and outflows more closely. Co-hosed by Kyriba, the lively discussion highlighted a general shift toward the digital Treasury. One immediate challenge that the Treasury department faced was foreign exchange (FX) exposure.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

We have deep dives into treasury application programming interfaces (APIs) and buy now, pay later (BNPL), as well as a report on Robinhood ’s trading app outage that occurred earlier this week. HSBC on the Next Phase of Treasury APIs (B2B API Tracker). Libra’s Stumbles, Coronavirus Gains Show Pitfalls of a ‘Global’ Currency.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

The digital transformation of corporate treasury is not a destination; it’s a journey. It stands to reason that firms that have been around for decades, with far-flung operations and payments done across multiple currencies, have a range of legacy systems in place with less-than-efficient processes entrenched in back-office functions.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 11, 2024

trillion in extended credit and new capital for its consumer and institutional clients while moving $10 trillion in over 120 currencies daily. Some may lack the appropriate treasury management solutions or may not know how to maximize liquidity process efficiency.” Throughout 2023, JPMorgan Chase raised $2.3

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

But the executive insights in the pages that follow offer a bit of roadmap for cash managers to see more restful nights. Connecting those supply chains across borders also means executives must think about payments in a different way, especially when managing transactions across time zones and currencies.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Services include cash management and cross-border payment and currency conversion across APIs. The services are offered across several core product suites, including Travelex Business Cash, Travelex Business Pay and Travelex Business Cloud. The latter offering includes multi-currency processing.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

At the same time, however, these innovations have also introduced unfamiliar disruptions to antiquated workflows, creating new challenges for treasurers to understand how to readjust their processes and cash flow management strategies as their role within the enterprise grows more complex and valuable.

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CFO Leadership

MARCH 31, 2022

Five steps to improve global cash visibility. Global operations make it more challenging for small treasury teams in mid-market companies to handle day-to-day operations efficiently and securely. They struggle to keep an overview on their cash and risk positions. In the dark about global cash?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

As CEO David Solomon said in reference to an ongoing review of the fixed income, currency and commodities division (commonly known as FICC), the company is training its sights on cash management Keep in mind that FICC, for the full year 2018, contributed $5.9 billion, which grew 11 percent year on year.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2019

The bank announced that its Next Generation Virtual Accounts are now available to wholesale clients to support cash and multi-currency management. HSBC is introducing virtual accounts for corporate and institutional clients, the financial institution said in a press release sent to PYMNTS on Monday (July 8).

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

For many firms, these trends are forcing the introduction of an FX strategy on a company for the very first time, and when corporate treasurers aren’t prepared, they can run into complications beyond the cost of currency exchange. A recent controversy at American Express highlighted that risk for SMBs. The scope became very large.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2019

” Corporate cash managers may not be able to control many of those challenges, like ongoing geopolitical instability resulting in trade tensions and financial market volatility, or the rising threat of cyberattacks. And that’s all about using technology-based services to re-engineer treasury activities.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Corporate finance executives seem to be readying for real-time payments, preparing to adopt faster payment capabilities and bracing for changes to their cash flow management strategies as a result. A new report from Deutsche Bank said this industry path is guiding banks and corporates to a new destination: real-time treasury.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

As a result, treasurers must grapple with the notion (and the needs) of cash crossing accounts many times a day. Cash management becomes a continuous process, throughout the business day. Knowing where and how much cash there is across various legal entities, countries and currencies is crucial.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

A new survey by JPMorgan finds corporate treasurers consider China’s recent currency exchange rate reforms to have had the most impact on their businesses. All of this occurs as China works to make the yuan an international currency. Reports on Thursday (Sept. China’s economic slowdown surpassed U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2017

In their Strategic Role of Treasury Survey , the AFP and Marsh & McLennan identified the forces pressing companies to shift the treasury department into a more strategic position. Most professionals said geopolitical risk has led to concerns over a loss of revenue or customers, while 49 percent cited the concern over currency risk.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2020

trillion global tourism industry, and Facebook is reportedly considering revising the structure of its proposed Libra currency. HSBC On The Next Phase Of Treasury APIs. Libra Stumbles, Coronavirus Gains Show Pitfalls Of A ‘Global’ Currency. Here’s why when it comes to currencies, one size does not fit all.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

The complexities of corporate cash management — particularly across borders and currencies — means that a broad range of treasury and CFO functions are getting the high-tech, outsourced treatment. The company is a gateway payment provider that delivers payment processing solutions to businesses.

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Strategic Treasurer

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Details were gathered about banks’ concerns and recommendations for client security, corporate payment complexity, volumes, currencies, challenges, plans for technology use, and more. Among the top findings were the following points: Multiple Systems and Security Fraud Management Top List of Payment Challenges.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

New research from Asset Benchmark Research suggests ties with regulators and even reputation are not the number one priority for corporate treasurers looking for a cash management provider. Only 13 percent said they decreased the number of cash management solution providers with which they were working.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

One of the areas ready for real-time disruption is foreign exchange (FX) management, which is “the road to real-time treasury,” according to the report. Real-time payment capabilities enable businesses to take advantage of faster currency conversions and real-time FX rate management.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The company’s latest 2017 Global Corporate Treasury Survey was recently published, and it’s not surprising that, since its 2015 report, Deloitte found that treasurers continue to face new pressure from their executive committees and boards to become a strategic, value-added role within the enterprise. Technology Tripping Up Treasury.

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Future CFO

MARCH 21, 2022

Three years after Danone Asia implemented a cloud strategy to its treasury management system, boosting its visibility and control, Pulat Yunusmetov , Danone Asia regional treasury manager, urges companies - on a similar cloud journey - to buck the conventional wisdom of going after the cheapest solution in the market. “Do

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Future CFO

MAY 26, 2022

He suggested that the settlement procedure be automated, and integrated into the treasury management system. I sell services to you, what's the price, and then it (price) gets converted to the local currency plus tax and so on. He posited that more machine involvement in matching transactions between intercompany is better.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2016

To achieve this, Ripple is placing its bets on XRP, a digital currency that the firm argues will be instrumental as a bridge asset to facilitate interbank transactions. It’s a currency that allows financial institutions to ditch the nostro account and instead keep XRP on their own balance sheets. Cost-Saving Opportunities .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

“The world is moving toward better technology, simpler design and instant access to data and automated analytics,” said Mark Smith, Citi Global head of liquidity management services, treasury and trade solutions. “We Cachematrix is excited to power Citi’s Online Investments portal with our best-in-class financial technology.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Low and negative interest rates have especially motivated these money managers to renew their investment strategies, the report noted. Their investment strategies are also impacted by the issue of currency risks and inflation, both cited by about a fifth of survey respondents as a top macroeconomic concern.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 24, 2020

Further uncertainty comes from capital markets, for example, currency exchange rates, interest rates and commodity prices; impacting near term liquidity situation.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2018

Wieser said SEPA has not only streamlined B2B transactions across the continent, but has also made them faster, which has actually benefited supply chains and corporates’ cash management strategies. It makes liquidity and cash management much easier,” he explained. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2017

The cloud treasury and finance management solution provider released its 1H 2017 results last week, highlighting what Kyriba said was record sales growth at 43 percent for the half. Earnings may have surpassed expectations for IBM at $2.95 a share (surpassing forecasts of $2.75

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