Welcome to the latest edition of Liquidity Link Live, your exclusive market analysis provided by Northern Trust Asset Management, one of the world’s largest cash managers. Tune in each month to discover the very latest insights on the UK, Eurozone and US markets. This edition was recorded on the 7th September 2023.

In the second episode in the HSBC Sibos Spotlight series, Eleanor Hill invites John O'Neill and Zhu Kuang Lee (HSBC) to discuss the innovative activity happening around asset tokenisation.

In this candid deep dive, our guests identify the emerging use cases for tokenisation, touch on the future trends that could accelerate the adoption of digital assets, and explore the challenges that HSBC's Orion platform is addressing for corporate treasurers in a tokenisation context.

Why is trade finance ripe for digital disruption?

To answer this question, TMI's Eleanor Hill invites Stephanie Betant and Bhrigu Singh (HSBC) into the hotseat to discuss the transformative potential of digital trade, and the benefits it holds for treasurers.

In the first of TMI and HSBC’s Sibos Spotlight series, our guests cover how digitalisation within trade finance empowers SMEs and reduces risks, how regulation influences the industry’s ability to progress in digitising trade, and the ways in which treasurers and fintechs can work together to encourage the adoption of digital trade tools.

In this special edition of TreasuryCast, Eleanor Hill (TMI) sits down with Treasury Expert and Author, Adesola Orimalade, to discover how he ventured into the profession, his current endeavours, and his vision for the future of treasury. 

Amid looming challenges like AI, lack of young talent, and budget constraints, why does he champion empathy as a pivotal skill for treasury leaders? Unearth the insights from his recent book, where he delves into the balance between empathy, materialism, and leading a fulfilling career.

Whether you're a treasurer or just curious, don't miss Adesola's invaluable advice on thriving both in the boardroom and beyond.

Welcome to the latest edition of Liquidity Link Live, your exclusive market analysis provided by Northern Trust Asset Management, one of the world’s largest cash managers. Tune in each month to discover the very latest insights on the UK, Eurozone and US markets. This edition was recorded on the 4th August 2023.

Cedric Guarnotta, from celebrated TMS provider Datalog Finance, is our latest TreasuryCast guest, who joins Eleanor Hill (TMI) to discuss how treasurers can make data more valuable through FP&A.

Our guest considers the challenges FP&A teams are facing as a result of current market volatility, highlights the critical importance of high-quality data, and argues why, in a landscape where headlines are dominated by AI, human expertise remains central to FP&A activity.

The CFO no longer cares about your cash forecast! They need more.

To support the CFO, Treasurers need to evolve beyond visibility into cash by making forecasting actionable – surrounding cash forecasts with data to enable intelligent investing, borrowing and working capital decisions to drive strategic growth and company valuation.

Find out how to make your forecasting actionable in this podcast, featuring Victor Vertic (Aroundtown), Bob Stark (Kyriba), and Ben Poole (TMI).

Continuing on our journey looking into the future of payments, Lee McNabb, Oliver Butcher, and David Silver (NatWest) join TMI's Eleanor Hill for a candid discussion regarding the application of digital assets in a treasury context.

In this podcast, our guests consider the impact of CBDCs across the financial ecosystem, including the potential for standardisation, and consider whether alternatives enabled through blockchain are still piquing the interest of corporate treasurers across the globe.

The treasury team at C. H. Robinson set out to reinvent its cash and liquidity management structure within Europe. To do so, they adopted a strategy focused on automation and process efficiencies across key European treasury activities.

With evolving business models, rapid treasury digitisation and a slow economic outlook dominating the news cycle, it's no secret that this is a challenging time for treasurers.

Natasha Condon and Martijn Stoker (J.P. Morgan Payments) consider how treasurers can best adapt to this period of uncertainty and its subsequent challenges. As well as sharing their key opportunities and concerns, our guests provide advice on how best to leverage:

• Alternative hedging strategies
• APIs to facilitate growth
• Disruptive technologies including AI and DLT
• Tools for working capital optimisation