Entries by treasuryXL

How to Solve the 4 Main Payments Challenges

| 18-07-2019 | BELLIN | Sascha Kopp has been a Consulting Director with BELLIN for over 10 years. He has successfully accompanied and implemented well over 100 payments projects in international groups. In this interview, based on our on-demand webinar, he outlines the 4 main payments challenges for corporates and how to best tackle them. #1 payments […]

Does your payment land in the correct currency account?

| 16-07-2019 | by Pieter de Kiewit | Recently I received signals from a treasurer working in a mid-sized company about payments in various currencies landing on the wrong account. In a payment of USD 1 million, this could lead to extra cost of about USD 9,000! This results in extra cost and should be […]

RT story: From professional athlete to Treasury Director

| 15-07-2019 | by treasuryXL | Kendra Keydeniers   Best example of a great career in treasury (before and) after graduating from the RT program is the one of Jarno Timmerman. This is his Register Treasurer Story: Professional athlete in The Premier League of volleyball, Jarno decided to further expand his passion for and knowledge […]

Why Big5 and not another personality assessment?

| 12-07-2019 | by Kendra Keydeniers | Our deeper dive into the Big 5 model continues with our next topic: Introduction Why a personality assessment in the Treasurer Test? Why Big5 and not another personality assessment? What do we see in the peer group? The traits measured A connection between traits and skills? Since the […]

Introduction of two Community Ambassadors: Francois and Marco

| 11-07-2019 | by Kendra Keydeniers | treasuryXL is happy to announce a close cooperation with François De Witte and Marco Lassche. As community ambassadors they will contribute to further raise the level of the treasury function, both for the inner circle: corporate treasurers, bankers & consultants, as well for the non-treasurers. François De Witte […]

Why is cash flow forecasting still an issue?

| 09-07-2019 | by treasuryXL | Kendra Keydeniers Cash forecasting is a vital part of the treasury role – and for all too many treasurers it’s a time consuming, difficult job where insufficient system support makes data management, analysis and reporting a time-consuming nightmare. However, the good news is that it doesn’t have to be that […]

Big tech vs Fintech vs Banks – in international payments

| 09-07-2019 | by Patrick Kunz | This title makes it sounds like it’s a fight. To be honest: it is! The market for international payments is huge and its lucrative. In a McKinsey report the 2018 market size for payment revenues was close to 2 Billion. Not strange everybody wants a slice of that. […]

Why Richard decided to explore the World of Treasury

| 08-07-2019 | by treasuryXL | Kendra Keydeniers The post-graduate Executive Treasury Management & Corporate Finance programme combines two finance disciplines: Treasury Management and Corporate Finance. These disciplines largely overlap and are inextricably connected. After a successful completion of all required modules, the title of Registered Treasurer (RT) is conferred by the Registered Treasurer foundation. […]

Why a personality assessment in the Treasurer Test?

| 05-07-2019 | by Kendra Keydeniers | Our deeper dive into the Big 5 model continues with our next topic: Introduction Why a personality assessment in the Treasurer Test? What do we see in the peer group? The traits measured A connection between traits and skills? The personality of the candidate you consider for your […]

Facebook and Libra: the new global currency?

| 04-07-2019 | Carlo de Meijer | treasuryXL Since Facebook announced to launch a new digital currency, the Libra, a complete media craze arose. The one blogger stumbled as it were over the other. And while the one group sings hosanna over this initiative (a salvation for the bankless), warning signals come especially from the […]