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Pushpendra Mehta meets with Craig Jeffery, Managing Partner at Strategic Treasurer, to review the latest treasury news and developments. Topics of discussion include the following:

• 1:34 6 treasury management trends for 2025
• 10:01 The four defining traits for leading corporate treasury in 2030
• 18:30 Biggest story

Other Resources:

• 2025 Treasury Trends Webinar - Strategic Treasurer
• Fraud Prevention Training - SecureTreasury
• Treasury 2030: Modernize or Risk Irrelevance - Citi

Pushpendra Mehta meets with Ben Poole, Writer at CTMfile, to review the latest treasury news and developments. Topics of discussion include the following:

• 1:33 Finance leaders rapidly advancing their AI knowledge
• 7:48 Euro area annual inflation up to 2.3%
• 12:45 Corporates change FX hedging due to US election outcome
• 16:32 Greenwashing risks rising as global regulatory scrutiny intensifies
• 21:45 Biggest story

Other Resources:

• 2024 CFO Sentiments: How AI is Changing Finance Departments - Datarails
• Euro area annual inflation up to 2.3% - Eurostat
• Q3 Corporate Hedging Monitor - MillTechFX
• The Challenge of Greenwashing: An International Regulatory Overview - KPMG
• Law2024 EY Global Corporate Reporting Survey - EY

Pushpendra Mehta meets with Paul Galloway, Senior Director, Advisory Services at Strategic Treasurer, to review the latest treasury news and developments. Topics of discussion include the following:

• 1:35 Key technologies shaping corporate treasury and their influence on TMSs
• 10:02 Swift's 10 takeaways from Sibos 2024
• 15:46 Global economy forecast for solid growth in 2025 despite trade uncertainty
• 18:41 Digital wallets and open banking set to dominate payments in 2025
• 24:08 Top story

Other Resources:

• Treasury Technology Analyst Report - Strategic Treasurer
• 10 takeaways from Swift at Sibos 2024 - Swift
• Macro Outlook 2025: Tailwinds (Probably) Trump Tariffs - Goldman Sachs Research (GSR)

Pushpendra Mehta meets with Dean M. Leavitt, Founder & CEO of Boost Payment Solutions, Inc., to review the latest payments and treasury news and developments. Topics of discussion include the following:

• 1:35 Cross-Border, Real-Time, and Digital Payments: Shaping the Future of Payments
• 10:56 A2A Payments to hit 186 billion transactions globally by 2029
• 15:16 4 Ways to Strategically Manage Cash Flow
• 20:53 Combatting payments fraud: Key insights every treasurer and CFO must know
• 25:29 Top Story

Other Resources:

• 2024 Prime Time for Real-Time - ACI Worldwide with GlobalData
• Consumer A2A Payments - Juniper Research

Pushpendra Mehta meets with Ben Poole, Writer at CTMfile, to review the latest treasury news and developments. Topics of discussion include the following:

• 1:41 93% of treasurers say forecasting inaccuracies led to avoidable losses over the past two years
• 8:21 Citi and Mastercard look to transform global cross-border payments
• 14:11 Swift to launch AI-powered fraud defence for cross-border payments
• 18:17 KYC streamlining and payments fraud protection: Keys to stronger corporate-bank ties
• 23:30 Top Story: Sibos and AFP conferences

Pushpendra Mehta meets with Paul Galloway, Senior Director, Advisory Services at Strategic Treasurer, to review the latest treasury news and developments. Topics of discussion include the following:

• Three critical aspects facing treasurers, CFOs, and CEOs – Now and Beyond

The three critical aspects discussed in the above article are appended below. These have been covered as separate topics in the podcast.

• • 2:13 Record-high US national debt: A ticking time bomb likely to spark a debt crisis
  • 10:46 Key focus areas for treasury and finance in the coming years: Technology, payments, payments security, and risk management
  • 19:17 Fed cut rates, yet corporate America faces higher interest expenses
• 26:10 Global banks to use Swift to trial live digital asset transactions from 2025

Other Resources:

• Federal Debt Data - FiscalData
• Interest Rates – The Economist

Pushpendra Mehta, Writer at CTMfile, reviews the latest treasury stories and developments. Topics of discussion include the following:

• Six tips for crafting compelling treasury and payments content
• More consecutive Fed rate cuts expected
• Clearwater Analytics launches corporate treasury benchmarking tool
• Banks believe they're eight months behind financial criminals

Other Resources:

• Financial Crime Detection: What holds banks back? - RedCompass Labs

Pushpendra Mehta meets with Craig Jeffery, Managing Partner at Strategic Treasurer, to review the latest treasury news and developments. Topics of discussion include the following:

• Treasurers expect technology to consume most of their time in the coming years
• Ecommerce merchants subjected to more payment fraud attacks than in previous years
• Global companies navigating from 'China plus one' to a 'China plus many' world
• GTreasury acquires CashAnalytics

Resources:

• The Business of Treasury 2024 - ACT
• 2024 Global eCommerce Payments & Fraud Report – MRC, Visa, & Verifi
• The Geopolitics of Supply Chains - Lazard
• 2023 Treasury Technology Analyst Report – Strategic Treasurer

Pushpendra Mehta meets with Paul Galloway, Senior Director, Advisory Services at Strategic Treasurer, to review the latest treasury news and developments. Topics of discussion include the following:

• Human error drives surge in ransomware-related financial claims
• Probability of recession now 35% - J.P. Morgan
• Digital innovation is slowly transforming corporate FX trading
• Oil prices rise following Israeli strikes on Lebanon

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