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 3rd August 2022.

During an era of historically high cash balances, how can corporates best manage the capital structure challenges they are facing today?

Eleanor Hill (TMI) is joined by Standard Chartered’s Shoaib Yaqub to discuss the pressures associated with mobilising cash in a volatile market where forces such as ESG play a key role in influencing investment decisions. Furthermore, given all the excess cash currently sitting on balance sheets, Shoaib considers whether working capital efficiency is sufficiently high on the corporate agenda.

On behalf of those yet to explore robotic process automation, we ask a brace of technologists to reveal its real advantages and limitations, and speak to one business expert whose organisation is leading the way. 

In this audible case study, Ocado's Treasury Manager, Nick Oliver, alongside Bob Stark (Kyriba) Shen Lee (KPMG) and Ben Poole (TMI), will explore how corporates can strengthen treasury and payment controls and enhance operational efficiencies by following an integrated approach to technology.

Manish Jain (J.P. Morgan Payments) joins Eleanor Hill (TMI) to discuss how changing consumer habits in the retail space could impact treasurers, from payments innovation to digital developments such as Request to Pay. 

In this deep-dive into the future of shopping, our guest considers how treasury departments can leverage payments-driven data, defines the notion of 'experimental shopping', and provides insight into the hurdles that persist in relation to cross-border payments.

How can treasurers assess the latest industry innovations and sort genuine trends from hot air? Julie Lubell (J.P. Morgan Payments) has the answers.

The world’s first trade finance-based non-fungible token transaction highlights the need for treasurers to understand the technology behind tokenisation and the practical implications that it could have for corporate finance.

Expecting the unexpected is de rigueur these days. So, we asked Peter Cunningham (Citi) to stand in left field, gaze into his crystal ball, and give us his predictions for the challenges and opportunities that treasurers might encounter in 2022.

Discover how the convergence of spend and liquidity can help finance, procurement, and treasury be smarter together. 

Dennis Baljeu (Vanderlande), Bas Rebel, Johannes Berghoff (Coupa), and TMI's Eleanor Hill identify key best practices around taking control of your cash and driving agility, through greater transparency and control of your financial data – across spend, payments, and liquidity.

There has never been a better time for treasurers to engage with fund managers to discover how innovative developments can help simplify the short-term investment process.

Koch's treasurer, Benjamin Defays, joins a panel of experts who will help you to understand the goals and concerns of your peers and find out the benefits you might be able to apply to your investment strategies as our guests discuss the full results of TMI and Calastone's Global Liquidity Barometer 2022.