TreasuryCast

Tom Alford (TMI) invites Nicolas Cailly (Societe Generale) to share his thoughts on the burgeoning role of real-time payments in treasury.

Real-time payment mechanisms growing at scale around the world, yet business use is relatively limited compared to consumers, how can this 'cause for pause' amongst treasurers be resolved? Our guest explores to what extent treasurers are both ready and willing to overcome adoption and technical issues to adopt secure real-time payments, and shares his key action points for treasurers to leverage them to their full potential.

AI has truly captured the zeitgeist in 2023 and generated endless headlines worldwide. But what does AI and the advance of large language models such as ChatGPT mean for corporate treasurers?

Mario Del Natale (Johnson Controls), Jan-Willem Attevelt (Automation Boutique), and Bob Stark (Kyriba) explore how treasurers can approach this technology to best unlock the benefits it can offer today, what treasurers need to do to make the most of AI, and how it interacts with the existing treasury technology stack. Our guests also cover obstacles to using AI, as well as look ahead to the impact that AI might have on the profile of the treasury team of the future.

In this special edition of TreasuryCast, Robert Dekker, Group Treasurer at T-Mobile joins Tom Alford (TMI) for an in-depth discussion covering T-Mobile Netherlands' progression from a carve-out with no treasury function to a standalone company with a full treasury function.

Our guest delves into the changes in systems, personnel, and policies post-carve-out, and shares insights on the challenges faced during the treasury build-out. Furthermore, Dekker explains the importance of giving treasury a strong voice amidst broader business changes and offers advice for those embarking on a ground-up treasury build.

Eleanor Hill (TMI) is joined by Bruno Mellado (BNP Paribas), who reveals how treasury teams can leverage e-invoicing to unlock a multitude of benefits around cash and liquidity management, embedded finance, data extraction, and automation.

Furthermore, our guest considers where the industry is positioned in terms of making e-invoicing mandatory, including whether regulators are properly aligned on standard and formats, and examines the pitfalls around implementation.

Eleanor Hill (TMI) is joined by Carl Cooper (J.P. Morgan Payments) who delves into a plethora of hot topics in the transactional FX space.

Our guest identifies treasurers' main concerns around cross-currency payments and considers how these have changed in recent times. Furthermore, Carl examines whether key strategies and instrument for managing cross-currency payments can deliver gains as well as mitigate risk. Other topics include how local currency pricing can be used to capture new FX revenue streams, and the value of having a global banking partner when managing transactional FX.

Eleanor Hill (TMI) is joined by Alex Fleischman (Nomentia) who provides a summary of the continuing development of treasury technology with a particular focus on payments.

Key topics in this discussion include - what role will instant payments and APIs play in the future of cash management and whether the migration to ISO20022 will remove payment format pain once and for all. Furthermore our guest considers whether the renewed interest in APIs has caused traditional approaches, such as In-house Banks to become redundant.

For this special edition of TreasuryCast, Baris Kalay (Bank of America) joins TMI's Tom Alford to tackle a host of new pressures corporate treasurers are facing in 2023.

Our guest explains why working capital management has become a key priority in the current landscape and considers whether treasurers are doing enough to meet demands in this space. He also examines whether on-time is a suitable and achievable model for treasury, and looks at the ways in which treasurers are becoming increasingly strategic due to the expectation to tackle a wider scope of duties.

Eleanor Hill (TMI) is joined by Danielle Weinblatt and Ali Ansari (Taulia) to discuss the intriguing nature of embedded finance in treasury.

With reference to practical examples, hear how your business can effectively leverage embedded finance, and gain a better understanding of the adoption and roll-out process. Furthermore, our guests cover how this integration is revolutionising the B2B marketplace and trade relationships.

Vinay Mendonca (HSBC) and Gert Sylvest (Tradeshift) join Eleanor Hill (TMI) for an informal discussion around driving supply chain resilience through embedded finance.

Our guests identify the challenges that corporates are facing in the supply chain space and consider the ways in which treasury teams can leverage ecommerce to homogenise the trade finance funding gap. Furthermore, find out more about a recent collaboration between HSBC and Tradeshift which is helping to produce embedded finance solutions to facilitate supply chain resilience for corporates.

Eleanor Hill (TMI) is joined by Zachary Brown (ICD) to discuss the launch of ICD's Portfolio Analytics, an AI-driven reporting solution that aggregates investment data for dashboard views of exposures that also allow treasury professionals to drill down into details to see underlying data.

During this engaging discussion, our guest takes us on a whistlestop tour of the key features of this cutting-edge tool, using real-world examples of how its analysis and reporting capabilities are having a transformative impact on the way treasurers manage risk.