Host Craig Jeffery continues the 2021 Outlook series with Royston Da Costa, Assistant Group Treasurer at Ferguson plc, in Part 2: Treasury’s Support of the Business. Topics of discussion center around liquidity during the depths of the pandemic and throughout the recovery, as well as key success factors to help navigate potential changes in the year ahead.
A year into the COVID-19 global pandemic, the Treasury Coalition continues to gather data on the crisis and recovery. The Coalition, formed to assist treasury and finance professionals by means of timely information, collects and distributes data through the Global Recovery Monitor, a brief survey currently run on a bi-monthly basis. Its areas of inquiry include concerns and response plans, economic preparations and outlooks, impact changes, and developments over time. With a full year’s worth of data now, this webinar will review the results of all 19 periods, dive into cross cuts, and discuss what organizations can do moving forward in 2021.
Finance professionals know the vital importance of protecting their payments against the ever-present threat of fraud. As technology evolves rapidly, the modern accounts payable department has many options and tactics available to it for mitigating fraud risks. This webinar will explain those options and tactics, focusing on the use of technology for controls, such as vendor validation, to prevent fraud and manage payments efficiently and securely.
Host Craig Jeffery joins Omri Kletter, Vice President of Fraud and Financial Crime at Bottomline, to discuss the results from the 2021 Treasury Fraud & Controls survey. This annual survey evaluates the current and projected impact of fraud on the finance and treasury environment. Practitioners from a broad range of industries are polled on their experiences with fraud and on the range of controls, safeguards and security practices employed to protect their financial assets and information.
Host Craig Jeffery sits down with Royston Da Costa, Assistant Group Treasurer at Ferguson plc, for a wide-ranging discussion around physical and virtual learning environments, seismic shifts in technology and processes, escalating cyberattacks, and the drive towards greater transparency in today’s treasury environment.