Are crypto assets really a viable treasury investment? If so, how can you enter – and exit – the market with the least possible risk? How does the custody of crypto assets work? What are the accounting and tax considerations? This podcast answers all of these questions and more. Richard Byworth, EQONEX, Dr Carsten Sørensen, The London School of Economics and Political Science, Henri Arslanian, PwC, and François Masquelier, Simply Treasury talk to TMI's Eleanor Hill about the merits and pitfalls of established and emerging digital assets.

Jan Dirk van Beusekom, BNP Paribas, and François Masquelier, EACT, discuss the findings from the 2021 EACT Survey, which garnered responses from over 340 corporate companies. Hear a detailed overview of the key trends that have captured the attention of European treasurers over an exceptionally disruptive 12 months. Furthermore, gain insight from the corporate treasury community into the challenges that are preventing treasurers from becoming an invaluable strategic advisor to the business. 

Karen Gilhooly and Brian McKenney (HSBC) talk to TMI’s Editor, Eleanor Hill, about the imperative need for treasurers to invest in technology if they wish to enhance the strategic value that they bring to the organisation. Our guests reflect on a year of mass disruption and consider the methods by which treasury teams can capitalise on digital business models, such as data analytics and Banking-as-a-service (BaaS), to design an armoury that will withstand any future uncertainty.

Cigna, a global health services provider, encountered a multitude of challenges when its 70,000 employees were plunged into a remote working environment. Payments concerns, bold digital aspirations and the requirement to build an accurate cash forecasting solution, encouraged Cigna Treasury to develop a digital transformation roadmap, designed in partnership its banking partners and technology vendors. In this candid interview, Cigna’s Treasury Management Director, Scott Lambert, considers how a collaborative business approach and a willingness to harness digital tools is transforming treasury into an increasingly value adding business partner.

Our guests from Standard Chartered - Sunday Domingo and Byron Gardiner - discuss best practice approaches in a data-driven treasury environment. The experts also consider how treasury responsibilities such as working capital and risk management could transform beyond recognition as a result of an increasingly digital operating environment and the rise of data analytics.

A need to react quickly to new business requirements is driving a new age in treasury, characterised by on-demand concepts. In our latest podcast covering the Journeys to Treasury report, Steven Lenaerts, BNP Paribas, and Christian Mnich, SAP, explore the drivers behind the adoption of data-driven technology - and highlight why the need for treasurers to migrate to real-time services has never been more imperative.

Think co-creation is just a buzzword? Then it’s time to think again. As Pierre Fersztand, Global Head of Cash Management, Trade & Payments, BNP Paribas, explains, value-adding solutions are being implemented as a result of BNP Paribas’ interactive workshops with clients. Listen to this TreasuryCast episode to cut through the hype of co-creation and discover the reality of practical innovations that directly address treasury needs.

TMI’s Eleanor Hill is joined in the virtual TreasuryCast studio by Gwynne Master, Managing Director and Global Head of Trade, Lloyds Bank, to discuss all things supply chain finance, an area that has faced considerable disruption over the last 12 months. Furthermore, Gwynne provides an overview of Lloyds’ leading supply chain finance platform, produced in partnership with Demica, which leverages a state-of-the-art digital onboarding solution to support the working capital needs of its corporate clients.

Mario A Benedict and Christine Moy, J.P. Morgan, join us to pinpoint the key trends gathering traction in the digital payments space - and how treasurers can make the most of them. Our guests consider how digital currency initiatives such as J.P. Morgan’s Onyx offering are relieving many payments-related pain points, and explain how a rise in data-driven banking has introduced new payments-related tasks for treasurers.

TMI Award winner Gavi’s Managing Director of Finance and Operations, Assietou Diouf, joins us to discuss the organisation’s celebrated digital treasury transformation project. Assietou is joined by Aniket Kulkarni, PwC, and Christian Mnich, SAP, to discover how, with the help of project partners PwC and SAP, Gavi has leveraged cloud applications such as a multi-bank connectivity offering to propel its treasury function into the future.