by Brian Weeks | Jan 10, 2023 | Replays, Webinars
The payments landscape has been evolving more rapidly of late. Handling these changes has been a significant challenge, but newer payment types have also brought new opportunities and benefits. This session will cover the experiences, expectations, and plans of payment and treasury professionals. Companies are adapting in order to better manage payments across a range of geographies and currencies. Meanwhile, the scope and scale of fraud has sped the rise of virtual cards. This session will expand on the results and implications of two payment-related surveys.
by Brian Weeks | Jan 4, 2023 | Replays, Webinars
When banks undertake a conversion of systems or banking platforms, the changes can significantly impact their customers. Far too frequently, these changes lead to a less than optimal experience for many clients. Why is this so frequently the case? What can be done to make future changes (major ones) a better customer experience than historical examples? This session will explore the nature of platform changes and identify some significant leading practices to support the success of treasury system and digital platform conversion projects. This session will be presented by Superior, a leading service company that has helped many banks with their platform and client transitions, and Strategic Treasurer, a leading consultancy that has worked with companies to help manage the requisite changes brought about by bank platform upgrades.
by Brian Weeks | Dec 20, 2022 | Replays, Webinars
As we leave 2022 behind us, we find 2023 starting with both high volatility and increased expectations for managing risks. What does this vulnerability mean to treasurers? What types of outcomes should we expect across the domains of credit, FX price volatility, elevated inflation, and increasing interest rates?
As treasurers examine the environment and how to address it, this dialogue will look at strategies for managing FX volatility, ways companies are thinking about data and artificial intelligence/machine learning, faster and real-time treasury (hype vs. the reality of everything moving faster), and the annual challenge of forecasting liquidity. Join Bob Stark, Kyriba, and Craig Jeffery, Strategic Treasurer, as they share their thoughts and draw out distinctions, useful frameworks for thinking, and practical approaches to help your organization succeed in 2023 and beyond.
by Brian Weeks | Dec 5, 2022 | Replays, Webinars
Treasury management systems (TMS) are a vital part of many treasury departments’ technology stacks, and adoption rates across companies of various sizes are expected to remain high for some time. Meanwhile, some TMSs seem to be outgrowing the category, creating the new enterprise liquidity management (ELM) solution type. This webinar will give a wide-ranging overview of the current TMS space, its importance in today’s era of volatility, leading practices for selection and implementation, and innovative technologies impacting the TMS landscape, as well as briefly discussing the emergence of ELM as a separate category.
by Brian Weeks | Nov 7, 2022 | Replays, Webinars
‘No man is an island,’ said John Donne. Cash application and cash forecasting are also connected in important ways. This session will cover five of the top actions companies should take to improve their cash application process and rates and tighten up their forecasting activities and accuracy. Slow cash application and low auto-assign and auto-apply rates negatively impact efficiency standards and month-end working capital metrics. They also impede accurate cash forecasting. Both efficiency in cash application and prioritization of cash forecasting have been top goals of AR groups and treasury teams for over five years. Listen in for some key steps that you can take to up your financial game in these areas.
by Brian Weeks | Nov 2, 2022 | Webinars
Managing bank fees through active monitoring of your analysis statements is typically on the to-do list but it rarely gets checked off as complete. Perhaps you are putting out a myriad of fires and the idea of getting out a magnifying glass to manually dig into your bank invoices is less than appealing. Is that something your team should even be doing? In this session we will help you understand the practical, operational, and strategic elements of effectively managing bank relationships and handling the mundane and vital process of managing expenses. This session will include a brief case study covering a multi-national corporation’s review of global bank fees and strategic ongoing management of their bank relationships. Corporate practitioner takeaways will include: 1) ways to architect your bank fee management process and 2) benefits of bank fee analysis and benchmarking.
