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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
• Data transmission to other systems

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

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.

Download this guide to learn more about:

• Building the foundations of connectivity and data
• Closing the gaps in your workflows
• Converting your long-term forecasting into cash
• And 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
• Enforcing internal treasury policies
• Standardizing payment approval processes
• Centralizing banking activity visibility

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
• What you can do to lock in rates today
• How hedging can help

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
• Steps in their journey to payment optimization

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
• How to start taking action today
• And 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
• Achieved all of this in 9 short months

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:

• What is ISO 20022? Why is it important now?
• ISO 20022 industry adoption timeline
• 8 benefits of ISO 20022 for enterprises
• Who is primarily impacted by IOS 20022?

As companies embark on their ERP payments project, they will find that the payments landscape has evolved considerably since they put their current payments process in place. A few years ago, fraud prevention was not as pressing an issue as it is today, bank connectivity was more straightforward and there were far fewer payment formats to consider.

Download this eBook to uncover key areas you must consider during an ERP cloud migration payments project and how to:

• Move payments forward to achieve agility, scalability and visibility
• Efficiently defend against payment fraud
• Modernize bank connectivity
• Significantly reduce costs and time required for your payments project

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

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

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

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?

For Treasurers and CFOs, not knowing what you don’t know is no longer an option when talking about foreign currency exposure data. All too often, the first sign of a problem shows up as a material misstatement of FX gain/loss, due to what Kyriba has coined as “Accounting Volatility.”. 

Download this eBook and learn about this critical issue facing treasury departments and the shortcomings in the way companies account for multi-currency transactions and manage the resulting foreign currency exposures. Including:

• Getting to the source of FX related accounting volatility
• Diagnosing accounting volatility
• Foreign currency exposure management
• The FX exposure management process
• And more!

In today’s rapidly changing environment, treasurers face wide and varied challenges from global supply chain issues, staffing shortages, fraud attacks and ever-shifting regulatory environments. Because of these evolving obstacles, treasurers and CFOs must have a sure‐fire plan of attack to take advantage of available tools, techniques and technology to operate as efficiently as possible.

Download this eBook and learn 5 strategies treasurers can leverage to give themselves a competitive advantage, including:

• 4 considerations to plan for the next major upheaval
• How to standardize global payments
• Optimizing liquidity through working capital solutions
• And 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
• 3 simple rules for FX hedging
• How to establish your FX hedge program

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:

• Developing a risk management policy
• Exposure classification
• Strategy development
• Striking a balance with your counterparty
• Accounting for derivatives
• And much 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:

• Create a risk management policy
• Identify exposure types
• Design strategies
• Account for derivatives