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APIs are transforming the bank connectivity landscape, providing new opportunities for real-time information and insights. Download this white paper to explore how APIs can benefit treasury and finance teams both today and in the future. READ MORE ›
In order to make informed and effective decisions about the company’s liquidity, treasurers first need access to up-to-date information on their account balances. But in practice, this is difficult to achieve if you’re using the previous day’s data, which is already out of date. APIs have the potential to provide access to intraday reports with real-time data, instant payments, improved cross-border cash pooling, and more.
Download this white paper to learn how APIs can provide new value to finance and treasury teams. Topics include:
Sophisticated liquidity and cash management tools are essential for treasury departments. Download this fact sheet and learn how you can get an end-to-end view of your cash positions and transaction activity across any bank, account, entity, or back-office platform globally. READ MORE ›
Cloud-based platforms empower businesses to optimize critical functions surrounding cross-border and domestic payments, bank connectivity, cash forecasting, fraud prevention, payment compliance, and more. Using a cash management technology platform can help you improve operational efficiency, lower risk, manage liquidity, gain strategic advantage, and ultimately achieve enterprise payment optimization.
Download this fact sheet and learn how you can achieve:
Global visibility & control over cash positions
Automation of cash & liquidity reporting
Customizable reporting with drill-down optionality
Connectivity with banks, systems & entities as-needed
In this eBook, you will gain an understanding of how payables finance and receivables finance solutions can create a win-win solution for both buyers and suppliers while enabling treasury and procurement to work hand-in-hand to deliver working capital improvements. READ MORE ›
In today’s hyper-competitive and ever-advancing world, companies need capital to grow, address existing debt or distribute more shareholder value through dividends or share buy-backs. One way to generate this capital is to optimize working capital: the less capital tied up in the working capital cycle, the more there is available to support strategic initiatives, expansion and drive growth and create shareholder value.
Download this eBook and start improving your working capital positions. You will learn about:
Driving growth & profitability through working capital solutions
3 types of payables finance solutions
How to optimize payment terms & enhance cash visibility
The benefits of working capital solutions for buyers & sellers
An incentive for a sustainable supply chain: minimizing risk
Data is the basis of all reliable forecasting for treasuries. Explore this step-by-step approach to transform and modernize your company’s cash forecasting around your data. READ MORE ›
In this guide, you will learn four steps to revolutionize your cash forecasting and transform your treasury team from scorekeepers into strategic planners. Start saving cash proactively, reducing time inputs sharply, and gain working capital insights.
With a drastic increase in payment fraud attempts (at 667%) during the pandemic, payment fraud is a larger threat than many enterprise organizations anticipated. This eBook explores simple, standard practices your organization can deploy to ensure payment fraud controls and compliance are in place. READ MORE ›
The most recent AFP Payments Fraud and Control Survey reported that 90% of organizations experienced an increase or no change in the incidence of payments fraud when compared to the prior year. With fraudsters utilizing new schemes to expose those at risk, protecting your organization is paramount today.
Download this eBook to learn strategies to protect your company against payment fraud, including:
How to drive alignment across treasury, accounts payable and IT
The interest rate environment -- and broader market volatility -- has market participants wondering what they can do to stabilize their operations. If you want to lock in rates now before they get even higher throughout the year, you can do that with hedging. And, you don’t have to do it alone -- download this guide for assistance. READ MORE ›
Market participants are being hit with a trifecta of complications that are causing uncertainty including larger than usual variances in interest rate forward curves (depending on modeling/provider/counterparty). Changes in liquidity between risk-free rates vs -IBORs, reduced liquidity in Eastern Europe, and impacts on commodities like wheat and nickel are all contributing to increases in volatility across the board.
Download this guide and learn about:
3 pressures causing uncertainty
2022 interest rate activity
How rising rates impact corporates & financial institutions
Download this white paper to learn how you can simplify and streamline your global payments and liquidity management operations by transforming how you connect with global banks and financial systems, collaborate on payment processes, execute outbound payments, analyze cash flow & compliance data, and promote working capital efficiency. READ MORE ›
TeamViewer, a rapidly growing global technology company, was facing increasing challenges around cumbersome, time-consuming work due to a range of disparate systems. This white paper outlines how their 2-person treasury team managing 10 legal entities, 7 banks, and 39 individual bank accounts spread across 11 countries established a seamless connection between their systems to boost ROI and support growth initiatives. and an easy integration approach for managing future M&A activity across new systems and banks; allowing them to address their global enterprise payments, bank connectivity and cash management needs.
Download this white paper and learn about:
How they overcame challenges in global payments, bank connectivity and cash management
3 considerations they used to determine their technology needs
How they achieved full and rapid onboarding of a new system
The resulting ROI in daily cash visibility, payments automation & security coverage
Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) have gradually worked their way into everyday life in treasury and finance, but we’ve only scratched the surface of their potential. This eBook explores the use cases for AI/ML within treasury and finance, as well as the barriers preventing mass adoption of the technology. READ MORE ›
What makes ML so powerful now, as opposed to just a few years ago? The simple answer is data. Both companies and consumers are using a host of applications that generate mass amounts of data, and with the right systems in place, that data can be transformed for better decision-making.
Download this eBook to learn about the difference between AI and machine learning for treasury and how your department can benefit from each; including:
How AI/ML works in treasury and finance
Applications of AI/ML, like fraud detection, cash management and more
Facing significant payment challenges, CountourGlobal’s treasury team was looking to streamline their visibility across 140 unique enterprise entities, 60 bank partners, and over 800 individual accounts. Download this case study to learn how they achieved global payment optimization in just 9 months. READ MORE ›
After rapid expansion since their inception in 2005, U.K.-based asset management company ContourGlobal was facing a host of challenges in the financial realm. Disparate technologies and systems resulted in poor visibility, heightened risk of fraud, labor-intensive and error-prone payments, and manual workflows across their web of accounts and entities.
Download this case study to learn how ContourGlobal:
Streamlined global payments and subsequent reporting workflows
Simplified liquidity management operations
Deployed global bank connectivity and financial messaging
ISO changes are forcing enterprises to act now to avoid issues in payments and statement information to their banks and systems providers. Download this white paper to learn more about this major overall of the global payments infrastructure, the threats it poses, and the significant benefits for enterprises. READ MORE ›
Clearing systems, banks and SWIFT are changing from the FIN standard, which uses the MT message type, to the ISO format which uses XML. Company systems such as ERPs, TMSs, HR support etc. need to soon be able to send and receive the new format for both payments and account information.
Download this white paper to learn how ISO20022 can be a significant opportunity as well as a threat for treasury executives, and how to adapt. Topics discussed include:
Complete cash transparency is a perennial challenge for corporate treasuries. This report explores underlying fundamentals you can address today to maintain the role of strategic business partner and bring value to the C-suite. READ MORE ›
Having real-time cash visibility is critical in today’s hypercompetitive market. Yet, 26% of global cash is non visible to treasuries daily, according to the 2019 PwC Global Treasury Benchmarking Survey. In the digital era, this challenge might seem to be crying out for a complete technology solution. However, there are basic principles that need to be addressed before a tech solution is in place.
Download this report and start laying the strategic groundwork for achieving real-time cash visibility. You will learn:
3 common causes of cash visibility obscurity
Consequences of poor cash visibility
The importance of quality and timely data
How tech enhances your capabilities with correct fundamentals in place
Download this white paper and learn how you can manage global sanctions screening and compliance requirements to ensure payments are compliant with fast-moving global sanction regulations. READ MORE ›
Enterprises that conduct business across international borders must comply with a long and constantly evolving list of government-imposed sanctions and embargoes. These sanctions place strict parameters over which businesses and individuals are legally allowed to participate in the global financial community. Given the penalties that can be imposed on businesses for transacting or associating with a sanctioned party, the need for treasury and finance practitioners to vet each of their enterprise’s vendors, partners and suppliers is critical.
Download this white paper and learn about:
Why sanctions screening is critical
Who creates & manages the primary global sanctions list
The impact of sanctions on treasury & finance
Penalties for breaching sanctions
How technology can help you maintain compliance quickly, easily & reliably
Download this white paper and learn about the state of the treasury industry in 2022 and how it has evolved over the past five years. The most significant findings from this comprehensive research are outlined within, which reviews treasury responsibilities, technology, general operations, and action items to improve treasury performance. READ MORE ›
In this paper, data and insights are synthesized from an in-depth study conducted between Q1 2017 and Q2 2022 with dozens of treasury experts and thousands of financial practitioners. A consortium of industry experts, thought leaders, and consultants provides context and interprets the findings to provide unparalleled insights into the current state of the treasury function in 2022.
Download this white paper and learn about:
5 action items to improve treasury operations in 2022 and beyond
Navigating the ever expanding list of responsibilities of treasury teams
The blurring of the line between “Treasury Expert” and “Tech Expert”
Treasury as equal parts strategic and operational
How collaboration shapes successful treasury teams
Download this white paper and learn why treasury automation is so important. Get guidance on how to navigate the fintech and banking technology solutions landscape and see how your company compares to others in your industry. Understand the steps needed to get you where you want to be in the near future. READ MORE ›
Organizations continue to scale and look for new growth opportunities, many with a significant increase in responsibilities compared to 2021. Technology is a key way to free up time and resources.
Download this white paper and learn about:
How can I maximize the chances of a successful treasury automation project?
How do I develop a business case and gain buy-in from the c-suite?
Which internal and external stakeholders should I include in my project?
Do I need an RFP and if so, how should I structure it?
How do I select, implement, and measure the success of my new solution?
Since you own your foreign exchange (FX) hedge program, you need to influence certain strategic decisions in order to achieve desired results. Download this guide for 3 rules about FX hedging to help you do that. READ MORE ›
To achieve desired results, financial executives need to influence certain strategic decisions about functional currency, hedge program objectives and derivative instruments.
Download this guide to help inform your FX hedge program decisions. You will learn about:
How to think more strategically about currency risk
Setting your company’s FX risk management strategy
Many corporations are exposed to interest rate risk. What does it take to manage this risk? The ongoing evaluation of risks, appropriate derivative or non-derivative strategies and the related accounting implications are all part of a robust hedge program. This eBook outlines a few common steps to implementing an interest rate hedge program. READ MORE ›
Most corporations are exposed to interest rate risk. Once the exposures are identified and derivative instruments evaluated, it is time to marry the two by setting company strategy: defining what instruments will be used to hedge what exposures.
Hedging generally involves exchanging one kind of risk for another, more acceptable risk. To hedge interest rate risk, this typically involves exchanging variable rate debt for fixed rate debt, or exchanging fixed rate debt for variable.
Download this eBook to get started with seven steps for interest rate hedge program success, including:
Download this 7-step guide to create a foreign currency hedge program. READ MORE ›
Many corporations are exposed to currency risk. Does your company have an updated foreign currency hedge program?
The companies that hedge their currency risk are afforded predictable results and time to react to coming changes in exchange rates. Laying the foundation for a capable hedge program will allow your company to make better business decisions for the future by mitigating both future exposures and existing balances.
Download this eBook for the seven basic steps needed to implement a successful foreign currency hedge program. Plus, you will also learn how to:
APIs are transforming the bank connectivity landscape, providing new opportunities for real-time information and insights. Download this white paper to explore how APIs can benefit treasury and finance teams both today and in the future.
Sophisticated liquidity and cash management tools are essential for treasury departments. Download this fact sheet and learn how you can get an end-to-end view of your cash positions and transaction activity across any bank, account, entity, or back-office platform globally.
In this eBook, you will gain an understanding of how payables finance and receivables finance solutions can create a win-win solution for both buyers and suppliers while enabling treasury and procurement to work hand-in-hand to deliver working capital improvements.
Data is the basis of all reliable forecasting for treasuries. Explore this step-by-step approach to transform and modernize your company’s cash forecasting around your data.
With a drastic increase in payment fraud attempts (at 667%) during the pandemic, payment fraud is a larger threat than many enterprise organizations anticipated. This eBook explores simple, standard practices your organization can deploy to ensure payment fraud controls and compliance are in place.
The interest rate environment -- and broader market volatility -- has market participants wondering what they can do to stabilize their operations. If you want to lock in rates now before they get even higher throughout the year, you can do that with hedging. And, you don’t have to do it alone -- download this guide for assistance.
Download this white paper to learn how you can simplify and streamline your global payments and liquidity management operations by transforming how you connect with global banks and financial systems, collaborate on payment processes, execute outbound payments, analyze cash flow & compliance data, and promote working capital efficiency.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) have gradually worked their way into everyday life in treasury and finance, but we’ve only scratched the surface of their potential. This eBook explores the use cases for AI/ML within treasury and finance, as well as the barriers preventing mass adoption of the technology.
Facing significant payment challenges, CountourGlobal’s treasury team was looking to streamline their visibility across 140 unique enterprise entities, 60 bank partners, and over 800 individual accounts. Download this case study to learn how they achieved global payment optimization in just 9 months.
ISO changes are forcing enterprises to act now to avoid issues in payments and statement information to their banks and systems providers. Download this white paper to learn more about this major overall of the global payments infrastructure, the threats it poses, and the significant benefits for enterprises.
Complete cash transparency is a perennial challenge for corporate treasuries. This report explores underlying fundamentals you can address today to maintain the role of strategic business partner and bring value to the C-suite.
Download this white paper and learn how you can manage global sanctions screening and compliance requirements to ensure payments are compliant with fast-moving global sanction regulations.
Download this white paper and learn about the state of the treasury industry in 2022 and how it has evolved over the past five years. The most significant findings from this comprehensive research are outlined within, which reviews treasury responsibilities, technology, general operations, and action items to improve treasury performance.
Download this white paper and learn why treasury automation is so important. Get guidance on how to navigate the fintech and banking technology solutions landscape and see how your company compares to others in your industry. Understand the steps needed to get you where you want to be in the near future.
Since you own your foreign exchange (FX) hedge program, you need to influence certain strategic decisions in order to achieve desired results. Download this guide for 3 rules about FX hedging to help you do that.
Many corporations are exposed to interest rate risk. What does it take to manage this risk? The ongoing evaluation of risks, appropriate derivative or non-derivative strategies and the related accounting implications are all part of a robust hedge program. This eBook outlines a few common steps to implementing an interest rate hedge program.
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