Treasury for Non-Treasurers: What’s Treasury’s impact on business performance? (Part 1: Operational Treasuries)
Last week, we explored whether Treasury is a strategic function. We’ll now dive into how different types of treasuries impact business performance. In this article, we’ll focus on operational treasuries, which come in two types: basic and control-orientated. We’ll examine their impact through the lens of the first article’s four key treasury objectives, which will…
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Junior Treasurers Interview: A Session with Sean Howlin
This is the second edition of our Junior Treasurers Interview series, where we explore the experiences and insights of young Treasury professionals. In this series, we continue to learn how new treasurers are building their careers and adapting to the changes in the treasury field, including the impact of new technologies. In this interview, we…
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How to prepare for a successful payment factory implementation
This article is written by Nomentia Checklist for successful payment factory project A payment hub offers organizations a centralized platform to streamline payment processes and enhance financial management, especially in complex payment landscapes. Forward-looking treasury and cash management professionals are increasingly looking to safeguard and future-proof their business-critical processes with a payment hub. Proper preparation is essential for successfully…
Young Treasurers Interview: A Session with Fabian Bohner
In this series, we interview treasurers and younger treasurers about their careers, motivations, knowledge, and priorities. But also on tech, IT, and AI data science. We kick off this series with Fabian Bohner from Germany, Treasury Manager at Peri SE. Fabian has recently earned a certificate in data science and it got us curious why…
Instant Payment fraud: Head of Antifraud at UniCredit gives best practices
This article is written by Trustpair Executed in 10 seconds, instant payments remove the possibility of after-the-fact controls. More than ever, companies need to strengthen their payment process, thanks to robust internal control measures and improved collaboration. Giovanna Guidolin, head of Anti-Fraud at UniCredit, shares her insights and best practices to stop instant payment fraud. For more insights…
FX Averaging: Pros and cons for your currency hedging
This article is written by HedgeFlows FX Averaging helps remove the risk of picking the wrong timing for your FX transactions. Instead of risking the uncertainty of selecting the wrong day or time for your currency purchase, where you may encounter an unfavourable exchange rate, FX averaging breaks down the transaction into smaller increments, spreading…
Treasury for Non-Treasurers: Is Treasury a Strategic Function?
We closed last week with the question: “Is Treasury a strategic function?” Ask 1,000 treasurers the question, 999 will say “Yes”. 🙄 I’m being unkind. There is no agreed definition of ‘strategic,’ so every function is strategic in some way or another. Let’s tighten that up. Here’s my definition: “A strategic Treasury: 1. Is one…
Treasury expert’s insights: Payment hub implementation
This article is written by Nomentia Summary. A payment hub solution is a key technology to centralized cash management. Fragmented payment systems, manual payment processes, and the lack of real-time cash flow visibility pose significant challenges that can quickly lead to inefficiencies and risk management issues. In this article, based on our chat with treasury expert Pia…