Upcoming Webinars
Webinar: 2022 Virtual Card Solutions Survey Results | October 11
Virtual cards (sometimes called “vcards”) are a payment option offering decreased fraud risk and increased speed. The 2022 Virtual Card Solutions Survey, run by Strategic Treasurer and underwritten by Mastercard, investigated the adoption rates, corporate and bank perspectives, challenges, and advantages of virtual card programs. This webinar will discuss the results, covering topics such as the payment delays and the desire for security that drive virtual card adoption, the challenges of supplier adoption and attrition for virtual card programs, the expectations and experiences of various organizations on the topic, and more.
Webinar: Liquidity Management: Multiple Cross-Currents, Multiple Levers | October 18
The current macro-economic situation now has multiple cross-currents and several strong headwinds from inflation rates to supply chain challenges. Treasurers are finding that they have to pull multiple levers to steer their financial ships properly in this rising storm. This session will look at the changing environment and examine how traditional and new levers can help companies navigate these choppy waters skillfully. Topics covered will include supply chain finance and other AP levers such as Pay Later, credit-as-a-service (CaaS) for AR, forecasting properly in calm vs. stormy environments, and more.
Webinar: AR Leading Practices (Part 2): Identifying and Addressing Working Capital Needs | October 13
Managing working capital well is vital, but it isn’t always simple. As working capital needs shift in response to the environment, accounts receivable (AR) and treasury must work to identify the current needs and find ways to address them. This session will cover how to determine what is necessary for working capital in light of today’s various chaotic factors and will discuss leading practices and key changes to processes or technology that can improve working capital and efficiently address its current challenges.
Webinar: 2022 Global Payments Survey Results | October 4
How are treasury and AP professionals managing the current and anticipated challenges of the evolving payments landscape? The 2022 Global Payments Survey, underwritten by Corpay and powered by Strategic Treasurer, probed respondents on their experiences and perspectives across multiple payments functions, including bank connectivity (financial messaging formats, channels, etc.), cross-border and FX transfers, and the use of new or emerging payment technologies. This webinar will discuss the results from the survey, covering data on topics such as the challenges with managing global payments activity; projected spend and investment on payment systems, technologies, services, and functionalities; and more.
On-Demand | 1.2 CTP Credits
Webinar: Treasury Automation
Within our increasingly digital world, the volume of bank data continues to grow exponentially. To gain critical visibility into your cash flow and to position your organization for growth, it’s becoming imperative to establish a baseline of automation for your treasury department. In this session with Tracey Knight, the VP of Client Success at Trovata, discover how you can empower your team to perform more strategic analysis that propels your business forward while increasing both visibility into your cash flow and team satisfaction and retention through innovative automation technologies.
Webinar: Integrating Systems for Your Unique Business Needs
In this webinar, discover how banking APIs establish rails that automate the collation of your transaction data and the sending of payments information back and forth between your bank and cash automation platform, empowering your organization with automated cash management functionality and payments experience in one, all-inclusive solution.
Webinar: Automation as an Asset to Attract and Retain Talent
This webinar will cover how automation and innovation are a talent retention issue as well as a business processes issue, and why they should be taken seriously even at smaller, more traditional companies that don’t believe they have complex cash needs.
Webinar: Digital Transformation Strategy Series: Part 4 – Evaluating Tech Solution Sets
Technology solution selection projects are high stakes: Select and appropriately implement the right solution for your needs, and your company has a powerful tool to leverage for years to come – but the wrong solution for your company can ultimately become a long-term problem. The good news is that with the number of choices on the market today, there is a good fit for every customer. Finding that good fit, however, can be difficult. This webinar will outline the methods and mindsets needed for understanding your needs, evaluating the solutions on the market, and discovering which one can best help you and your team excel for years to come.
Webinar: Digital Transformation Strategy Series: Part 3 – Partnering with IT on Your Digital Transformation
Visibility, data connectivity and forecasting are crucial to staying afloat in today’s climate, and leveraging new technology is becoming more and more crucial to achieving those goals. From RPA to AI and ML, the alphabet soup is confusing but increasingly important to treasury’s daily life. Learn the fundamentals of these technologies and how they can empower your treasury team to unlock efficiency and access accurate information.
Webinar: Digital Transformation Strategy Series: Part 2 – Navigating the New Tech Landscape
Visibility, data connectivity and forecasting are crucial to staying afloat in today’s climate, and leveraging new technology is becoming more and more crucial to achieving those goals. From RPA to AI and ML, the alphabet soup is confusing but increasingly important to treasury’s daily life. Learn the fundamentals of these technologies and how they can empower your treasury team to unlock efficiency and access accurate information.
Webinar: Digital Transformation Strategy Series: Part 1 – Treasury Paradigm Shift
The technology landscape is changing rapidly. The amount of data is exploding both inside organizations and outside, and managing this data gracefully is challenging IT groups, finance at large and treasury. From improving visibility and leveraging existing IT investments to improving forecasting and achieving improved efficiency across treasury, the pressure continues to mount. The proper approach must contemplate an environment that supports rapid development, scalability, natural language search and massive amounts of data. In this initial session of the Digital Transformation Strategy series, we will explore the key factors impacting your role and how treasury needs to understand the developing trends and learn how to adapt to the era of big data and modern technology.
Sign-up for first notice about our upcoming webinars
By filling out the form below, you acknowlege and understand you will be placed on Strategic Treasurer’s email list. For more information, you can view our privacy policy here.
Webinar Replays
Webinar: Managing Volatility: Rewriting Treasury’s Playbook | September 29
As market volatility and economic uncertainty continue, corporate treasurers are forced to write a new playbook for 2022 and beyond. Strong currency headwinds, continued interest rate increases, unabating inflation, a highly mobile labor market, and the threat of supply chain disruptions are driving an unprecedented set of risk scenarios for treasury teams to manage.
This webinar will tackle how treasury can design leading practices to reduce the vulnerability to market volatility and implement a playbook to drive more efficient borrowing, more effective hedging, and more confident forecasting, pulling new levers to optimize liquidity within a real-time environment.
Webinar: 2022 Modernizing Accounts Receivable Processing Survey Results | September 20
This webinar discusses the accounts receivable (AR) results from the 2022 Modernizing AP & AR Processing Survey. The AR track of this survey explored the practices and plans of AR professionals, pain points, areas of increasing value and investment, and more. From reasons to move providers to challenges in achieving AR process modernization, the results covered in this webinar shed light on the current environment, the rates of change, and the ways your peers are responding to disruption and corporate goals.
Webinar: Navigating Risk During Uncertainty: The Treasurer’s Guide to Scenario Analysis | September 7
During uncertain times, treasury teams must be on the frontlines to plan for business continuity by monitoring external factors such as seasonality, currency fluctuations, and broad economic indicators. Forecasting cash flow and strategic planning have never been more important.
A mature scenario analysis process is crucial to successfully mapping a course of action in this fluid environment. This strategic approach allows treasury accurate insight into how crises will play out and how your environment and key factors may change over time.
Key Takeaways:
Understand the impact of scenario analysis while preparing a cash forecast.
Learn how to examine the business levers available under best-case and worst-case scenarios.
Know how to leverage predictive analytics to generate reliable scenario models.
Webinar: B2B Payments: 2022 Survey Results | September 13
In 2022, the world of business payments faces continually developing threats, regulations, and priorities. In such a constantly changing environment, knowing what your peers are planning and doing can help you decide how to proceed and adapt. The B2B Payments Survey gathers data from treasury and finance professionals on payment challenges, security, technology, and complexity, probing global respondents on their plans, perceptions, and practices. This year’s results yielded insights on payment fraud, innovative tech use, differences between organizations of different sizes and in different regions, and more. The webinar will present and discuss highlights from the survey results and key takeaways for banks and corporations.
Webinar: Contemplating Improvements in Payments | August 23
Given the technological and functionality changes in the payment space over the past five years, taking a fresh look at systems and services is in order. For those working to either optimize their current technology setup or looking to acquire new systems, gaining visibility and understanding of the newer functionality and the “art of the possible” is vital. This webinar will walk through the changing functionality and when/why this matters to organizations. Companies seek improved visibility, strengthened defenses against fraud, ability to scale, and reduced defects to drive efficiency. A leading technology provider and consultant will take attendees on a journey to payables improvements.
Webinar: Preparing Your Cash Forecasting Strategy for Market Uncertainty | September 22
Companies today are bracing for an era of increasing market uncertainty, interest rate and pricing fluctuations, and possible recession. In such times, forecasting needs to become a priority. How can proactive treasurers prepare and strengthen their cash forecasting practices for future unknowns? In this webinar, Strategic Treasurer and Trovata discuss leading practices for crafting a strong cash forecasting strategy and offer steps that you can take now to put your treasury team in an advantageous position to handle whatever turbulence lies ahead.
Webinar: Working Capital Management: Visibility and Insights | July 26
All leading organizations manage working capital intentionally. This is often part of the overall liquidity management process. Given that this requires looking at many different systems, data points, and responsible leadership, gaining visibility and a unified look at an organization’s liquidity and working capital can be a challenge.
Priorities must come before proper action on working capital and liquidity management. Proper prioritization requires insights, and insights require visibility across cash, accounts receivable, inventory, and accounts payable.
This session will offer a macro view of improving working capital and liquidity management through comprehensive visibility, common goals, consistent metrics, and a unified approach.
CPE credits:
1. Examining the role that comprehensive visibility plays in improving working capital and liquidity management.
2. Understanding the importance of common goals and consistent metrics as they pertain to improving working capital and liquidity management.
3. How a unified approach helps achieve improved working capital and liquidity management.
Field: Finance – Technical
Webinar: AR Leading Practices (Part 1): Faster Payments and Changing Controls | July 19
Reflective of their name, faster payments are also creating rapid changes both in the payments arena and in the surrounding control requirements. While AR professionals are, as a whole, excited about the opportunities faster payments present, many also recognize some challenges and concerns, raising several questions: What are the different challenges these innovations pose? How will those challenges progress or shift over time? What changes are occurring with control requirements? And finally, given all of that, how can treasury and AR work together to optimize working capital and their overall processes and results in this new environment? This webinar will seek to answer these key questions, shedding light on both what is changing and how AR and treasury can move forward.
CPE credits:
1. Consider the different challenges posed by innovations in faster payments and how those challenges progress or shift over time.
2. Gain understanding on the changes occurring with control requirements.
3. Learn how treasury and AR can work together to optimize working capital and their overall processes and results in this new environment.
Field: Accounting – Technical
Webinar: Managing a Treasury in Transition | July 21
Companies grow and change at different rates. During growth phases, companies can reach a number of transition points where the adoption of new processes is an absolute necessity. Treasury has to both rise and adapt to meet the evolving needs of the organization.
As a company scales, developments need to be made across a number of areas. These include 1) relationships, 2) structures, 3) technology, 4) staffing, and 5) processes. This session will explore how treasury professionals can recognize points of transformation and opportunities to benefit their organization.
Whether you are relatively new to treasury or a seasoned treasury veteran, this session will deepen your understanding of:
• Key indicators that drive transformation (complexity and size)
• How treasury processes need to shift as an organization scales
• Technology that supports visibility, efficiency, and control
• Measurements your team should consider for KPIs
• What your treasury department could and should look like
• Best practices that need to be considered