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Reminder Live Discussion Session | More reliable cash forecasting in a fraction of the time

27-04-2022 | treasuryXL | CashAnalytics | LinkedIn |

 

A friendly reminder that tomorrow at 3 PM CET (April 28th), we’ll be collaborating with CashAnalytics.

Date & time: April 28, 2021 at 3 pm CET/ 2 pm GMT | Duration 45 minutes



Join Pieter de Kiewit (Treasurer Search), Ron Wessels and Conor Deegan (CashAnalytics) who will talk about how cash flow automation can:

👉 Cut your manual workload and reporting timelines by over 90%

👉 Provide detailed insight into transaction-level data across all your entities

👉 Free you from Excel-based processes that are riddled with human errors Register now so you don’t miss out on this valuable discussion from industry leaders with over 65+ years of combined experience!

 

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Meet the speakers

Conor Deegan

CFO and Co-Founder
CashAnalytics

Pieter de Kiewit

Owner
Treasurer Search

Ron Wessels

Group Treasurer

Join Us to Learn How Cash Flow Automation…

  • Cuts your manual workload and reporting timelines by over 90%
  • Provides detailed insight into transaction-level data across all your entities
  • Frees you from Excel-based processes that are riddled with human errors

The Treasury Dragons vs Cash Forecasting | Best-of-breed Cashforce

14-04-2022 | treasuryXL | Cashforce | LinkedIn |

 

Have you seen the Treasury Dragons vs. Cash Forecasting session yet? Watch the replay now to learn which cash forecasting solution is right for your business. This session is for treasurers who want to enhance their cash forecasting but aren’t sure which technology will work best for their company. In this session, Nicolas Christiaen compares and contrasts best-of-breed Cashforce with alternative options.



ABOUT THIS EVENT

Cash flow forecasting is the process of predicting the flow of cash in and out of a business over a period, generally the responsibility of the corporate treasurer. An accurate cash flow forecast helps companies predict future cash positions, avoid cash shortages, and invest any surplus cash to generate extra income.

Generating an accurate forecast involves collecting information from multiple sources. It’s often still a manual process using spreadsheets and multiple bank downloads. However, today, there are many solutions available which can automate and streamline cash flow forecasting for corporate treasury.

This Treasury Dragons online session on Tuesday, April 5th 2022 at 3:00 PM (BST) looks under the hood of these cash forecasting systems in a live Q&A with real corporate treasurers.

Among the solution providers we’ll be featuring are:

This is the latest in a series of online debates in which treasury technology firms present their solutions to our ‘Dragons’ – and to you.

In short, sharp presentations you will see the highlights of each treasury-enhancing system on offer – and then the solution providers will face some challenging questioning from our panel of treasury tough nuts.

It’s the fastest way to get up to speed on what’s really on offer.​


 

Nicolas Christiaen

Managing Partner at Cashforce

 

 

Live Discussion Session | More reliable cash forecasting in a fraction of the time

13-04-2022 | treasuryXL | CashAnalytics | LinkedIn |

 

TreasuryXL is partnering with CashAnalytics to discuss how much time, effort, and money you can save by adopting a data-driven approach to cash forecasting.

Date & time: April 28, 2021 at 3 pm CET/ 2 pm GMT | Duration 45 minutes



Join our expert panelists as they present battle-tested methods for increasing the reliability of your data, breaking free from tedious forecasting processes, and freeing up more of your time for analysis.

If your team spends more than a few hours each week creating forecasts, this is an event you won’t want to miss.

Click on the banner for registration.

Meet the speakers

Conor Deegan

CFO and Co-Founder
CashAnalytics

Pieter de Kiewit

Owner
Treasurer Search

Ron Wessels

Group Treasurer

Join Us to Learn How Cash Flow Automation…

  • Cuts your manual workload and reporting timelines by over 90%
  • Provides detailed insight into transaction-level data across all your entities
  • Frees you from Excel-based processes that are riddled with human errors

Your free eBook, What is Treasury?

13-04-2022 | treasuryXL | LinkedIn |

 

Receive your eBook What is Treasury? after subscribing to the free treasuryXL weekly newsletter.

The world of Treasury is a complex topic. Many people will think about pirates and big see ships that sank deep into the bottom of the ocean including their ‘treasure’. A mystery treasure map will lead the finder to a treasure worth a lot of money. In some way Treasury and Treasure have similarities, it is about money and other valuables.

Are you having a hard time how to explain what treasury is to family, friends and colleagues? Or are you interested to learn more about the World of Treasury?

 

treasuryXL created a 41 pages eBook for the corporate treasurers and the world of finance addict.

This eBook is designed to answer layman questions about the function of Treasury. treasuryXL bundled the most important information for you and created an easy to read and understand articles about the main subjects within the World of Treasury:

This ebook will answer your questions about Treasury topics.

treasuryXL explains the purpose of each Treasury function; what specialists do, examples of activities, FAQs, and a summary.

This ebook is based on the most relevant best practices that Treasury experts provided over the last years. On the website of treasuryXL you can explore additional information on the latest in Corporate Treasury.

 

HAVE FUN READING!

 

 

Director, Community & Partners at treasuryXL

 

 

 

 

Live Webinar: An Interactive Cash Forecasting Discovery Session

Live Webinar: An Interactive Cash Forecasting Discovery Session 22-03-2022 | treasuryXL | CashAnalytics | LinkedIn | Do you spend more time compiling and reconciling your team’s cash forecasts than you spend analyzing the output? If so, you’re *definitely not alone.*

Cash Flow Forecasting Factors to Consider

10-03-2022 | treasuryXL | CashAnalytics | LinkedIn | The cash forecasting process involves planning and predicting a variety of different types of cash flow — from expected customer receipts to tax payments due to the government.

Your new home for fixed income

07-03-2022 | treasuryXL | Refinitiv | LinkedIn | Your new home for fixed income

Instant Payments: the SEPA Instant Payments rulebook is published, what’s next?

| 20-2-2017 | Boudewijn Schenkels | Sponsored content |

At the end of last year the SEPA Instant Payments requirements from the European Payments Council have been published. Consequently the Dutch requirements 3.0 from the Dutch Payments Association were published last month.

SEPA Instants Payments (also called SCT Inst – SEPA Credit Transfer Instant) will allow sending and receiving money 24/7 in seconds. European banking communities can go live from November 2017, the Dutch community has planned to go live from May 2019 with the first Instant Payments services. The development of the SEPA Instant Payments infrastructures of the banks and processors are in train. In april 2018 the start of the inter-CSM testing is planned, the end-to-end bank tests and the pilot phase from January until April 2019.

From our Instant Payments training classes for business professionals and IT staff, we find that participants are not fully aware of the large impact Instant Payments will have on the complete value chain and the opportunities it will bring. In order for you to understand the impact and opportunities, I will explain how Instant Payments are processed.

To give an impression of all the change aspects for users, the banks and the interbank processing side:

For corporates amongst others:

  • Different and new initiation processes, including, if applicable, instant insight in the failure of the payment;
  • New cash management and/or ERP applications or upgrades;
  • Reconciliation aspects;
  • Requirements for instant insight of bank account mutations;
  • Changed processes to monitor late payments (as they can be delivered eg. in the weekend);
  • Evaluate the potential of new services based on Instant Payments;
  • 24/7 operation required?
  • Possibilities in product differentiation.

 For banks amongst others:

  • Support new payments processes;
  • Real time and 24/7 reporting;
  • Extra notifications and reach filtering (as SEPA Instant Payments is not mandatory);
  • Revised (24/7) operational processes;
  • Changes to fraud/AML/sanctions management;
  • New sales and product management activities and roles;
  • Changes liquidity management processes and monitoring;
  • New clearing channel(s).

For processors amongst others:

  • New clearing and settlement processes;
  • Revised operational processing and monitoring;
  • New sales and product management activities and roles

As the launch dates come nearer it certainly triggers managers to now thoroughly evaluate scope and time scales for (required) internal projects and ensure to be ready and steady before launch in 2019 as well as business professionals to anticipate and grasp the potential opportunities.

The key differences between the current SEPA Credit Transfer and the new SCT Inst scheme are:

  • 24/7 available (no downtime)
  • real-time (5 seconds in Netherlands round trip)
  • real-time failure notifications
  • single transaction only

Instant Payments process

In our training, we also explain the differences between the normal payment flow (SCT) and the Instant Payments flow (SCT Inst). The process flow is described below in summary and will take place in several seconds.

 

Figure 1. (Source: EPC Rulebook)

Several key actors are involved in the payments process:

  • Originator: party sending the payment (payer, customer of the bank)
  • Originator bank: the bank of the payer
  • CSM: interbank party that clears and settles the payments between banks (Clearing and Settlement Mechanism)
  • Beneficiary bank: the bank of the payee
  • Beneficiary: the party receiving the payment (payee, customer of the bank)

The new process in summary:

The Originator Bank receives an SCT Inst Instruction from the Originator (Step 1). It verifies the instruction and sends the transaction to the CSM (Step 2), which verifies the message, ensures that the Originator bank has enough funds and instantly sends the SCT Inst Transaction message to the Beneficiary Bank. The Beneficiary Bank instantly verifies the payments and if it can be booked on the account of the Beneficiary (Step 3). The Beneficiary Bank confirms to the CSM if it was successful (positive confirmation) or not (negative confirmation with an immediate Reject) (Step 4). The Beneficiary can withdraw the funds (Step 5) instantly if in the previous step the confirmation was positive (and after the Beneficiary Bank has ensured that the CSM received the positive confirmation message). The CSM instantly reports to the Originator Bank if the SCT Inst Transaction had been successful (or not) (Step 6). In case the Originator Bank receives a negative confirmation about the SCT Inst transaction which indicates that the funds had not been made available to the beneficiary, the originator bank is obliged to immediately inform the originator (Step 7) and lift the reservation of the amount made in step 1.

All in seconds and 24/7!

This all means, that beside the flow of money, there is also a flow of messages between the customer and the bank. Both Beneficiary and Originator will be informed (in a few seconds) that the transaction is done (or not).

Are you interested in what the new SEPA Instant Payment will mean for your organization?
Come to our next open training (March 15 in Utrecht) or inquire about the possibilities of an in-house training.
More information at: www.paymentsadvisorygroup.com.
If you have any questions please contact us via: [email protected] .

 

Boudewijn Schenkels

Senior Consultant Payments @ Payments Advisory Group

 

 

Data-Driven Cash Forecasting Explained

08-02-2022 | treasuryXL | CashAnalytics | LinkedIn | While data seems like an obvious component of forecasting, it’s different to let it drive the whole process. Adopt a data-driven method, and you’ll find that the data can actually do most of the projection work for you.

GTreasury Acquires Hedge Trackers, the Global Leader in Hedge Accounting Software and Consulting

18-01-2022 | treasuryXL | GTreasury |

CFO demand for financial risk solutions is soaring; the deal gives GTreasury industry-leading hedge accounting technology and expertise



CHICAGO – January 18, 2022 – GTreasury, a treasury and risk management platform provider, today announced the acquisition of Hedge Trackers, the leading provider of accounting, consulting, and software services to protect clients against financial risk. The acquisition joins Hedge Trackers’ hedge accounting expertise and SaaS solutions with GTreasury’s unparalleled treasury and risk management platform. The combination of the two companies provides customers with best-in-class, integrated risk management technologies while continuing to expand GTreasury’s SaaS ecosystem built for treasury teams and the office of the CFO.
“Most CFOs and treasury teams understand the criticality of exposures and forecasts, but the highest-performing teams recognize and act on the subtle nuances directly impacting exposure,” said Renaat Ver Eecke, the CEO of GTreasury. “These are key decisions that have an outsized effect on corporate finances. Our acquisition of Hedge Trackers creates a unique and exciting opportunity for organizations to significantly, confidently, and advantageously optimize their complex accounting. With GTreasury’s product development capabilities, we can accelerate the expansion of Hedge Trackers’ robust Capella software capabilities and our best-in-class risk management solutions to better meet the requirements of modern CFOs and treasury teams.”

CFOs Drive Unprecedented Demand for Hedging Solutions

CFOs and treasurers face increasing volatility around foreign exchange rates, interest rates, and commodity prices – all of which can result in significant corporate losses without the right strategy, technology, and execution. This is why hedging and risk management solutions, along with hedge accounting services, have experienced such significant growth. FX hedging solutions alone are expected to grow 40 percent in the next two years, according to a recent survey from Topline Strategy, a consulting firm that looks at business technology adoption trends.

“CFOs increasingly realize that hedging is critical for success in a global economy,” said Ver Eecke. “A well-run risk management and hedging program helps CFOs gain control and provide clearer financials despite volatile foreign exchange rates, interest rates, and commodity prices. This acquisition catapults GTreasury into a leading position in the industry: both companies will combine to help CFOs and treasury teams more easily adopt risk management solutions and protect their bottom line.”

Hedge Trackers Brings GTreasury Unparalleled Expertise

Founded in 2000 by industry pioneer Helen Kane, San Jose, Calif.-based Hedge Trackers has amassed unparalleled domain expertise and technical depth in helping CFO offices establish hedging strategies, identify exposure, manage risk, and meet compliance and audit requirements. No public company has been required to restate earnings due to the derivative accounting and reporting practices implemented by Hedge Trackers. The company’s SaaS solutions are used by a wide range of companies, from pre-IPO businesses to the Fortune 100, and span across industry sectors including technology, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, retail, defense, energy, banking, and credit unions.

“Your top priority as CFO is determining what matters most in your organization’s financial statements,” said Helen Kane, CEO of Hedge Trackers. “Do you care about revenue? Operating income? With this acquisition, the combined GTreasury and Hedge Trackers teams will help CFOs and the teams they manage to think more strategically. The powerful combination of GTreasury and Hedge Trackers will deliver organizations the most comprehensive and intelligent solution for managing and mitigating financial risk. Hedge Trackers is a perfect fit for GTreasury, and we’re excited to now see all that we can accomplish together.”


About GTreasury

GTreasury is committed to connecting treasury and digital finance operations by providing a world-class SaaS treasury and risk management system and integrated ecosystem where cash, debt, investments and exposures are seamlessly managed within the office of the CFO. GTreasury delivers intelligent insights, while connecting financial value chains and extending workflows to third-party systems, exchanges, portals and services. Headquartered in Chicago, with locations serving EMEA (London) and APAC (Sydney and Manila), GTreasury’s global community includes more than 800 customers and 30+ industries reaching 160+ countries worldwide.