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Blockchain: how to make it operational in your company?

| 29-11-2016 | Carlo de Meijer | Today, I was invited to participate in a Challenge meeting at the Euroforum Fintech event in Amsterdam. My challenge was the following. Suppose we are somewhat further in time. Blockchain is far beyond the hype, the initial overdone expectations have been brought to a more realistic level and the […]

New norms in banking: more than 30 new areas emerging. Pick your Fights!

| 28-11-2016 | Hans de Vries | treasuryXL | We came across an interesting ‘panorama’ from McKinsey& Company about the key Fintech trends and asked our expert Hans de Vries to comment on it. He came back with interesting insight, that we want to share with you: Blockchain, PSD2, Bigdata, Crowdfunding, Bitcoins: never a dull […]

Instant Payments deserves a quick adoption because it will reduce the costs and will benefit Corporate Treasury: education will give a boost.

| 25-11-2016 | Boudewijn Schenkels |   Several use cases, like in UK and Australia, implementing Instant Payments proved to be a alternative to checks, cash and debit cards for retail and corporate customers, stated in the World Payments Report 2016 by CapGemini and BNP Paribas. Besides replacing these expensive payment types, Instant Payments will […]

Kunnen banken zich opnieuw uitvinden of is het inderdaad Kodak revisited?

| 24-11-2016 | Jan de Kroon |   Dat alle banken op dit moment stevig ingrijpen in hun business model en bedrijfsvoering behoeft geen betoog. Het staat immers dagelijks in de krant. De topman van ING geeft zelfs openlijk aan dat zijn bank zich transformeert naar een IT dienstverlener en ING is dus een van […]

Why seems TMS market leadership to be a relay race?

| 23-11-2016 | Pieter de Kiewit | The number of treasury management software brands I read about in resumes since 1996, the year of my first treasury placement as a recruiter, has continuously grown. In other markets market dominance has been more stable, BMW, Microsoft and Calvé have been able to keep long market leadership. […]

To be or not to be – what happens next to the Euro?

| 22-11-2016 | Lionel Pavey | In the last few weeks, there have been many news articles published, by well-known people, about the state of the union: Frits Bolkestein (former European Commissioner) – monetary union has failed. In 10 years there will be a large D-mark block in northern Europe Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel prize winner Economics) […]

Online Treasury training programs: a new trend and options increase

| 21-11-2016 | Annette Gillhart | If you are working as a treasurer and think about following a training you might as well look on the internet: an increasing number of programs are given online. We thought that it might be useful to check what’s on there and present a few. A small selection of what […]

How Bank Independency improves your Treasury Performance

| 18-11-2016 | PowertoPay | As RBS in april 2016, ABN AMRO announced recently that they will lay off another 1500 employees worldwide and reduce services due to ongoing digitalisation. We came across an article of PowertoPay and in the light of recent developments you might find it interesting to read. As we emerge from the global […]

New Community Manager

| 17-11-2016 | treasuryXL | Since we’ve started at April 21th 2016, treasuryXL made some important steps and we’ve been growing ever since. Our community is continuously expanding with authors, editors, sponsors and readers. Everyday we provide you with fresh, treasury related content: articles, vacancies and events. In the start-up fase it was our main interest […]

Uitgelicht: Pensioenfondsen moeten meer kasgeld aanhouden

| 15-11-2016 | Douwe Dijkstra, Erna Erkens |   Geld renderend wegzetten, voor pensioenfondsen lijkt het een ontzettend moeilijke opgave te zijn. René van de Kieft, voorzitter van pensioenuitvoerder MN stelt in het Financieele Dagblad dat het beter zou zijn voor pensioenfondsen om hun geld in kas te houden, anticiperend op een renteomslag. Van De […]