TreasuryCast

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.

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.