Treasury Contrarian View: APIs in Treasury — Game-Changer or Just Another Integration Headache?
APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) have been hailed as the future of bank connectivity, real-time data exchange, and seamless treasury operations. Banks, TMS vendors, and fintechs are pushing APIs hard. But here’s the contrarian take: Are APIs truly revolutionizing treasury, or are they just another complex, costly integration layer with more hype than help? The Case…
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Smarter Payments, Better Insights: Why Treasurers Should Embrace ISO 20022 Sooner Rather Than Later
This article is a contribution from our content partner, Salmon Software With the move to ISO 20022, cross-border financial messages are becoming richer, smarter, and more structured – leaving legacy formats, and their limitations, behind. For corporate treasurers, this is a rare chance to rethink how data flows across treasury. And with the transition deadline…
Nordics and Estonia Develop Offline Card Payment Systems: A Wake-Up Call for Corporate Treasury
In response to recent undersea infrastructure damage and rising geopolitical tensions, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Estonia are making strides to develop offline card payment systems. This initiative aims to ensure uninterrupted payment capabilities during times when internet connectivity is compromised. Sweden, in particular, has set a deadline for implementing this system by July 1,…
Leveraging Data for Treasury Decisions: A Single Source of Truth
This article is written by Treasury4 Treasury operations are more complex than ever before. Treasurers must deal with everything from cash and liquidity management to compliance and risk reduction—all across multiple global entities. Adding to these challenges is the issue of siloed data. With accounts across multiple banks, departments, and entities, treasurers are often tasked with…
Why was Treasury 2.0: Future-Proofing Finance with AIWritten and Why It Matters Now
In the treasury world, change is no longer a slow evolution. It’s a fast-moving reality. New technologies, shifting expectations, and global complexity are reshaping treasury’s role at a pace most traditional playbooks can’t keep up with. This is exactly why one of our Board Members, Bojan Belejkovski, wrote Treasury 2.0: Future-Proofing Finance with AI. The idea…
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Treasury Contrarian View: Should Treasury Really Own Working Capital Optimisation?
Working capital optimization is increasingly seen as a core treasury KPI. But let’s challenge that assumption: Is treasury really the right function to own working capital initiatives—or should that responsibility remain with procurement, operations, and finance? In many organizations, treasury is now being pulled into working capital programs. But is that a strategic fit or…