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Business intelligence for cash flows & cash positions
| 10-8-2017 | Treasury Intelligence Solutions GmbH (TIS) | Sponsored content | How do strategic professionals decide on the best path to success for their company? The key for strategic finance professionals and the best path to success lies in transparency and real-time reporting across company-wide cash flow and liquidity levels, bank transactions, customer and […]
Cash management – Mandatory truck system
| 9-8-2017 | Douwe Dijkstra | As an interim treasurer, several times when I commence a new assignment at a new client for a cash management implementation the bank selection for the cash management solution to be implemented has already been done. Not by the treasury (or any other) department, based on a request for […]
SWIFT Blockchain POC: Enhanced cross-border payments
| 8-8-2017 | Carlo de Meijer | Early July SWIFT announced that 22 global banks recently joined its Blockchain proof of concept (PoC) initiative introduced in January this year in collaboration with six leading correspondent banks (ANZ, BNP Paribas, BNY Mellon, RBC Royal Bank and Wells Fargo). The PoC is part of SWIFT’s ‘gpi’ (global […]
Graphs with no time line – why and how
| 7-8-2017 | Lionel Pavey | A key role within the Treasury function is providing forecasts to the directors and management. Graphs are a frequently used tool of course. When constructing graphs it is normal to put time on the horizontal x axis and read the prices from left to right – from old to […]
Re-inventing treasury workflows: Smart Treasury
| 3-8-2017 | Nicolas Christiaen | Cashforce | Sponsored Content | While the role of the treasurer is changing, it becomes increasingly challenging to maintain the current workflows and simultaneously take on new demanding tasks. One of these often manual and time-consuming tasks is risk management. As seen in, among others, this year’s Global Treasury […]
Bitcoins or banks, who is taking care of the business?
| 2-8-2017 | Hans de Vries | Banks have long been target of wild spread ideas that their role as facilitator in the (inter) national money transaction industry will soon be overtaken by new Fintech initiatives like PayPal, Bitcoin and recently Ethereum. The idea behind these new technologies is that the Trusted Third Party (TTP) […]
Moving Averages – how to calculate them
| 1-8-2017 | Lionel Pavey | In the second article in this series we will be looking at different types of moving averages. Moving averages are used to determine the current trend of a price. They filter out the extremes within a range of data and present a smoother picture. They are almost exclusively calculated using the […]
Preparing the roll out of instant payment services: testing EBA’s RT1 platform
| 31-7-2017 | Jan Meulendijks | Finextra | Instant payment services become more popular. UniCredit is testing the EBA Clearing’s RT1 real-time platform and preparing for the roll out of this service to 30 banks in Italy and Germany. Last week Finextra published an article about this development. Our expert Jan Meulendijks gives his opinion about […]
The Digital Trade Chain: the blockchain train is rolling
| 28-7-2017 | Carlo de Meijer | Trade finance is increasingly becoming the number one use case for blockchain with the greatest potential to benefit from this technology. In previously blocks I already showed the accelerated activity in this area (see: Blockchain and Supply Chain Finance: the missing link May 7, 2017 and Blockchain: accelerated activity in […]
Forecasting the future by looking at the past
| 25-7-2017 | Lionel Pavey | A key role within the Treasury function is providing forecasts to the directors and management. The most obvious would be the cash flow forecast, but others would include foreign exchange prices, interest rates, commodities and energy. A forecasts is a tool that helps with planning for the uncertainty in the future, […]