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Strategic Treasurer’s Analyst Report Series: Treasury and Risk Management Systems
06-09-2021 | treasuryXL | Kyriba |
This document contains a comprehensive illustration of the current state of treasury technology and the exciting future direction using new tools that are already with us. This FinTech analyst report from Strategic Treasurer takes a look at the current health of the TMS space and what benefits can come from implementing a treasury management system in your operations. Additionally, this report covers emerging technologies within treasury, such as the use of robotic process automation, artificial intelligence, and more.
Understand the current TMS space and its benefits
The Treasury and Risk Management Systems Analyst Report offers a thorough evaluation of the TMS space by covering the emerging uses of AI/ML (artificial intelligence and machine learning), RPA (robotic process automation), and API (application programming interface) technologies in treasury.
It also discusses:
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#6 Not having a Grip on Compliance (Dutch Item)
02-09-2021 | XE |
Regulatory compliance must be an absolute priority for all organisations involved in foreign exchange transactions with foreign customers and suppliers. You must implement robust procedures to generate the information that your foreign exchange providers must legally have in order to carry out transactions on your behalf.
Als u dat niet doet, loopt u het risico dat betalingen niet op tijd worden verwerkt, waardoor uw relatie met leveranciers en klanten onder druk komt te staan of zelfs uw toeleveringsketen verstoord wordt. Ook uw cashflow kan in gevaar komen. Ondanks deze noodzaak is vertraging door regelgeving een veelvoorkomend probleem bij vreemde valuta. Financiële instellingen moeten zich aan strikte regels houden wanneer zij valutatransacties uitvoeren namens hun klanten. Volgens wetgeving om witwassen en andere verdachte praktijken tegen te gaan, moeten zij de identiteit controleren van alle partijen waarmee ze zaken doen, waaronder de buitenlandse partijen waarmee uw bedrijf contact heeft. Vertragingen in het verificatieproces kunnen de uitvoering van uw transactie vertragen.
“Bescherm uw cashflow, uw toeleveringsketen en uw relatie met leveranciers en klanten.”
U moet ook oppassen dat u niet verstrikt raakt in onbekende buitenlandse bankgegevens. Bankgegevens in eigen land zijn gestandaardiseerd, maar internationaal kan dat van land tot land
verschillen en kunt u te maken krijgen met internationale rekeningnummers (IBAN), bankidentificatiecodes (BIC) en andere gegevens.
Uw valutaprovider moet u kunnen helpen deze potentieel verwarrende variaties te verwerken en tegelijkertijd de geldende regels na te leven. Worden er bijvoorbeeld online systemen gebruikt om de invoer van gegevens te automatiseren, waardoor fouten of ontbrekende gegevens snel ontdekt kunnen worden die anders uw betaling zouden kunnen vertragen? Geeft uw provider eenvoudig advies zonder gebruik van jargon over de gegevens die u nodig hebt van buitenlandse partijen en waar u die kunt vinden? Kan uw provider betaalgegevens in zijn systemen bewaren zodat u ze niet bij elke volgende transactie opnieuw hoeft in te voeren?
Als u niet precies weet hoe u ervoor zorgt dat u de regelgeving naleeft, bespreek dat dan met een gespecialiseerde valutaprovider.
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What to Consider When You choose your Bank Connectivity Strategy? 7 Important Criteria
| 01-09-2021 | treasuryXL | Nomentia |
Most organizations would benefit from some form of Bank Connectivity as a service. But just deciding on outsourcing bank connectivity won’t magically make all those connections appear. In this blog, we’ll cover 7 important criteria you should think of when evaluating different options.
1. In which banks do the majority of your payments flow?
Make a list of all banks that your organization is connected with and include all banking relationships from all your subsidiaries. We have noticed in interactions with our customers that this first step can be eye-opening at times. Often, we have an idea of the different banking relationships but then there are still local bank relations that might not be that visual to your treasury function. It also provides you with a good understanding of how many bank connections you would need and whether you would benefit from simplifying your banking landscape before implementing a bank connectivity solution. If your organization is only working with 5 banks altogether the story is very different from an organization that has relationships with 20+ banks.
After mapping this out, you might want to apply the 80/20 rule: typically, you would first set up connections to the strategic banks that cover 80% of your payment flows. A cloud-based software from a Cash Management specialist will most likely be able to provide you these connections as part of their out-of-the-box functionality.
2. Evaluate your use of local banks
Even if you expand the use of strategic banks to more countries, you might still find a set of local banks that you cannot replace. Typically, a discussion about bank connectivity increases in complexity when the long tail of local banks comes into play. That’s where you need to ask yourself why you are working with local banks. Is it for collecting money, for making payments from a regulatory point of view or because of specific needs within your local business?
Having visibility on Cash is straightforward while covering payment flows is not easily justified from a direct cost savings point of view. At the same time payment fraud plays a role in the local banks. You might want to consider a solution to replace internet banks for manual payments with a centralized solution. Then, the business case cannot be backed up by direct cost savings, but cost-efficient risk mitigation.
3. How consolidated is your banking landscape?
After mapping out all your banks in a first step, you know your strategic banks. Now it’s time to take a look at which countries are covered by these strategic banks. Would it be a good time to reduce your banking relations by using a certain set of strategic banks in more of your countries in order to reduce the number of domestic banks?
4. How many file formats and payment types do you have in use?
It is a different thing to set up credit notes and treasury payments only, as opposed to also including domestic payments, salary payments, and tax payments. We recommend having a solution for all your payment types and file formats: this is the only way to get rid of the internet banks and the tokens.
5. Are you concerned about payment fraud and information security?
You should have a solution to cover all payment types in all countries with all banks. That is the only way to have a full audit trail and control in every country. A centralized payment process enables centralized validation and control. We have covered the topic of payment fraud extensively.
In our case, having bank connectivity as a cloud service lets you benefit from a platform, which invests annually roughly 1bn$ in information security. From an information security perspective, this lets us concentrate on application-level security, which is annually audited by 3rd parties.
6. Are you interested in having transparency in your bank fees?
Modern bank connectivity solutions enable transparency in banking fees: Having bank agreements and the related fees included and matched against the banks’ reports. Even more transparency can be gained with services like SWIFT GPI: SWIFT GPI enables banks to provide bank fee information for the e2e chain. Not all banks support these features yet.
7. Choose wisely
Once you go through the questions and mappings outlined above you are at a good place in making your decision for the right bank connectivity provider. It might seem tedious at times and one might think of bank connections as a mere technical thing, but they are so much more. We feel this is a perfect moment to evaluate all your processes and look at ways to harmonize them.
It’s also a great way to work closely together with your colleagues. We recommend approaching this topic in a project team between treasury, finance and IT: From an IT perspective you want to minimize the IT-footprint, finance will run the daily operations and treasury sets the policies and controls.
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