by Brian Weeks | Mar 23, 2023 | Registration, Webinars
In an organization, who is responsible for payments? Who is responsible for payment security? This session will explain why the treasurer is the superintendent of payments and payment security. Since treasurers are not the only ones with important responsibilities for payments and security across the organization, these responsibilities must be more formally defined and communicated.
One of the first responsibilities of treasury with regard to payments is to inventory all payment flows (originating system and payment type). This provides the foundation for assessing your payment processes. When companies take these inventories, they are usually surprised to find they have 50% to 100% more payment flows than they originally thought. This session will discuss the process of finding and inventorying all payment flows to understand the exposure points.
by Brian Weeks | Mar 23, 2023 | Registration, Webinars
Strategic Treasurer and TD Bank’s annual Treasury Perspectives Survey polls treasury and finance practitioners on their current perspectives, plans, and strategies on issues such as economic and geopolitical outlook, top concerns, credit use and availability, operations and benchmarks, staffing, regulation, bank relationship management, technology, and more. This webinar will cover key findings from the 2023 results and will discuss the primary implications of this data for organizations this year and beyond.
by Brian Weeks | Mar 20, 2023 | Registration, Webinars
Continuing the series on bank relationship management, we transition now to bank account management and structures. Properly designing the cash management structures is vital for operational efficiency and control. Banking structures, for most corporations, will include multiple banks, and several longstanding principles and techniques are being supplemented with new structures. Turmoil in the banking sector has caused a revival for operational backup structures to strengthen the risk management footing of the organization. Additionally, the process and tools of bank account management can look notably different depending upon the organization’s complexity and size. This session will highlight many of the key details from both of these components.
by Brian Weeks | Mar 6, 2023 | Registration, Webinars
The Treasury Fraud and Controls Survey studies the current state of fraud experience, security
measures, and plans for the future. The 2023 results provide valuable data on multiple elements
impacting corporate fraud and security, including most commonly experienced fraud types, trends in
control measures and training policies, investment plans for prevention and detection technology, and
more. This webinar will highlight and discuss some of the key findings from this year’s research, covering
topics such as the following:
• Views of the fraud threat level and corporate security position
• Fraud types and rates of loss and attack
• Security practices and controls employed
• Types of cyber security technology currently employed
• Expected investments in security & fraud prevention technology
by Brian Weeks | Feb 27, 2023 | Replays, Webinars
Companies are well-served by understanding the competitive position of interest rates, ECR, and bank fees in times of stability. It is far more urgent in times of rapid change and high volatility that treasury groups monitor this activity more closely and secure competitive rates quickly. As the steward of good bank management, today’s treasurer wants to feel confident that the team is optimizing bank relationships, including fee structure. Being armed with data allows you to have a reasonable discussion with your banker about the overall compensation you are providing them. Any relationship with your bank includes a number of crucial factors, and not just fees alone. Key factors include the level of credit extended; advice and guidance provided; services and service level delivered; commitment to the relationship; fees, rates, and overall compensation. Strategic Treasurer’s series on bank fee management will educate the profession on the following: Fair transparent market pricing and data for reasonable discussions with your banks.Tracking ECR to make good investment/budget decisions.How has ECR been changing generally and with the rates paid to banks?How delayed ECR movements or shifts are, if at all?Optimizing your service lineup for efficiency and controls.Reducing fees by eliminating unnecessary services.Ensuring fee spend matches banking priorities (share of wallet).
by Brian Weeks | Feb 16, 2023 | Replays, Webinars
Optimizing working capital, driving up efficiency in the cash conversion cycle (CCC), and supporting vital suppliers are all important to many companies today – but they are also all difficult. However, several types of technology solutions can help further these goals, notably supply chain finance (SCF) solutions and those addressing various portions of the CCC. This webinar will cover the pain points these solutions address, the various SCF models, the navigation of supplier participation issues, the problem of competing KPIs within the CCC, and the use of working capital councils to improve these areas.
