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.

Jean-Marc Servat, Chair of The European Association of Corporate Treasurers (EACT) and TMI's Eleanor Hill take a deep dive into the world of crypto assets to discuss why central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are capturing the attention of finance professionals worldwide. Our guest highlights pilot schemes that demonstrate the possibilities that CBDCs offer and addresses concerns such as cybersecurity and privacy.

Over the last 12 months, the treasury community has successfully navigated some of the toughest trading and operational conditions in living memory. In this interview, Peter Cunningham, Citi, chats to TMI’s Eleanor Hill to discover the extent that treasury functions have been impacted by the disruption caused by an unprecedented period of economic uncertainty. Furthermore, Peter highlights how an increasingly hyperconnected environment has fostered a greater awareness of ESG initiatives, providing insight into the sustainable innovations that finance professionals are delivering to their clients.

Ray Nazloomian and Jenny Mustazza, J.P. Morgan, join TMI’s Eleanor Hill for a forward-looking discussion which examines why banks are opting to pursue fintech partnerships, rather than building in-house, to co-create innovative solutions with their clients. Our guests provide a commentary on J.P. Morgan’s wholesale payments strategy, and identify the emerging technologies that could have a significant impact on treasury and payments.

Johnny Grimes, Deutsche Bank, joins TMI's Eleanor Hill in the TreasuryCast studio to cover the ways in which treasury functions have hastily adapted to counteract the disruption caused by the ongoing pandemic. Our guest considers how an accelerated pace of innovation, and the resulting solutions, has played a monumental role in pushing digital connectivity to the forefront of treasurers' priorities over the last 12 months.

Preparing for the unknown is a challenge. But forward-thinking treasurers are beginning to access real-time useable data to optimise cash forecasting – and automating investment processes. Eleanor Hill speaks to Jim Scurlock (Microsoft), Luc Vlaminck (Rémy Cointreau), Jonathan Spirgel (Hazeltree) and Ed Lopez (Calastone) to assess how treasurers are managing their organisation’s cash and liquidity requirements to strategically advance their role and their team’s capabilities.

The second instalment of the Journeys to Treasury podcast series sees Wim Grosemans, BNP Paribas Cash Management, and Didier Vandenhaute, PwC, consider why centralisation has become such a persistent theme for treasurers in a Covid-19 world. In this episode, our speakers consider the benefits and pitfalls of centralisation projects - and explain how technology can help treasurers prepare for a structural treasury shift which is now more imperative than ever.

In this special edition of TreasuryCast, Jan Dirk van Beusekom, BNP Paribas, and François Masquelier, SimplyTREASURY, join Eleanor Hill to contemplate findings from the first chapter of the 2020 - 2021 Journeys to Treasury report, entitled ‘Looking back, thinking ahead’. Our guests reflect on the main treasury trends that have gathered pace over the last 12 months, including a rising uptake in real-time solutions and an increased need to combat cybercrime. They also paint an accurate and useful picture of the 2021 treasury landscape.

How can technology advances - and fintech solutions - help to streamline the banking experience for corporates? And what are the best practice guidelines treasurers can follow while embarking on their digital journeys? In this candid interview, Adam Hyde and Jennifer Acosta (J.P. Morgan) join TMI's Eleanor Hill to discuss the innovations that the financial community should keep a close eye on going in to 2021 and beyond.