Upcoming Webinars
Webinar: Shining a Light on Your Bank Fees | November 12
The first step to dealing with your organization’s bank fees is understanding them. Why are they so problematic? How do negotiated rates revert to normal rates? What does the fee information on the account analysis statement even mean, and how can you tell if your fees are good or bad? Perhaps most of all, how can this problem be solved when you and your team are already tight on time handling more urgent issues? If your organization seems to be in the dark on its bank fees, this webinar is for you. The brief, information-rich session will go over the anatomy of bank fee management, breaking down each part of what makes it complicated and explaining multiple strategies for attacking the problem.
Webinar: Demystifying XML ISO 20022: The Future of Payment Formats | November 7
As ISO 20022 emerges as the global standard for financial messaging, understanding it has become essential for corporate treasury professionals. This webinar will dive into the intricacies of the XML ISO20022, exploring its advantages over traditional formats, its role in modern payment ecosystems, and how it enriches data and enhances interoperability. We’ll discuss the transition from older formats, the implications of adopting ISO 20022 for treasury operations, and leading practices for implementation. Join us as we explore how to leverage the capabilities of this format for improved cash management and operational efficiency.
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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.
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Webinar Replays
Webinar: Effective Bank Account Management | October 15
Treasury is responsible for understanding what is required for strong bank account management (BAM) and for ensuring that the appropriate steps are taken at the appropriate times. Whether this is carried out well or poorly will impact your company’s costs, efficiency, compliance status, and security, but there is often a lack of clarity on exactly what needs to be done. This webinar will cover foundational components and leading practices, offering attendees practical guidance for designing, implementing, and maintaining their BAM.
Webinar: 2024 Treasury Perspectives Survey Results | October 16
The Treasury Perspectives Survey studies treasury and finance’s views, practices, and plans across a wide range of topics over time. Business leaders are polled on their economic and geopolitical outlook, top concerns, credit use and availability, operations and benchmarks, staffing, regulation, bank relationship management, technology, and more. In this webinar, Strategic Treasurer and TD Bank will cover key findings from the 2024 Treasury Perspectives results, discussing what the data means for today’s treasury professionals.
Webinar: Optimizing Cash Application & Deductions Management | October 1
Cash application and deductions management have a massive feedback loop to liquidity and working capital, showing the need for a close relationship between treasury and the accounts receivable team. Finance leaders want to accelerate cash flow and drive efficiencies to free up staff. This webinar will highlight some of the core drivers that create challenges for cash application and examine causes of increased unauthorized deductions. The over-weighted negative impact on liquidity and working capital will be examined, and the presenters will look at various leading practices for making cash application, deductions management, and working capital improvements.
Webinar: Beyond the Ballot: US Election Market Impacts | October 8
With the 2024 US presidential election quickly approaching, persisting uncertainty poses questions about how the results will affect markets in the short and long term. Join Phil Orlando, John Mosko, and Craig Jeffery for a 30-minute session where they will discuss how the markets are expected to be impacted by a win on either side and offer a short-term view of the liquidity market and a long-term view of the equity market, with distinct fiscal policies in play.
Fintech Hotseat Head-to-Head: Bank Connectivity and Data Transformation | September 12
Ready access to data from banks is foundational. The richness of that data impacts various operational and analytical areas, from treasury and accounting to accounts receivable and accounts payable. Data is required to feed our developing analytics engines to support better decisions. Meanwhile, it is increasingly important but challenging to execute transactions across many platforms with different banks for multiplying payment formats – all while still supporting robust controls.
Some formats are on track to be retired, while new payment rails and formats add complexity alongside opportunity. Legacy systems continue, but new connectivity methods (such as APIs) expand. Keeping up with the technology “debt” while supporting the new presents technologists and treasury professionals with a conundrum that must be solved gracefully.
Fintechs are addressing these concerns in various ways, using different tools and a multiplicity of partnerships and strategies. Evaluate their approaches as they show and explain how they solve for the hyper-expanding complexity to simplify the missions of both the corporate treasurer and corporate technologist.
Webinar: Receivables Modernization: Enhancing Cash with Innovation | August 28
Receivables modernization represents a strategic opportunity for businesses to improve their cash flow and working capital management. By leveraging modern technology, corporations can see more effective and convenient ways to collect payments. Faster, automated, and integrated collections streamline the process, significantly enhancing efficiency. In this webinar, Strategic Treasurer’s Managing Partner, Craig Jeffery, and Deluxe’s Payment Division President, John Rubinetti III, will uncover the potential for automation opportunities, the best approach for companies modernizing their receivables, and the benefits of true vendor partnership.
Webinar: Payment Hub Expansion | August 27
The growth in new payment rails, formats, and controls is increasing the complexity companies face. Managing the processes around more secure and “aware” payments is challenging enough with a single payment system. Many organizations are now dealing with numerous payment origination systems, all of which require continual updates. This session will offer practical guidance, tools, and considerations for companies facing payments complexity, focusing on the following points:
• Growth of payment complexity
• Challenges of keeping current
• Principles for managing payment complexity
• Payment hub foundations (payment hub, payment factory)
• Decision points in selecting payment solutions
Webinar: Three Essential Tools for Understanding Cash Management Pricing | August 6
The questions about bank fees come easy: Are we paying the right amount for our banking services? Are we being overcharged? How can we know when nothing is directly comparable and there is a lack of transparency? The answers, however, are far more difficult to find.
Understanding the “right amount” of bank fees requires understanding what others are paying and how these amounts are changing over time. Data forms the basis for this, but data must be presented clearly and understood to be useful. In this webinar, we will review select statistical and charting tools you can use to help your company better understand bank prices.
• Percentiles. Learn how percentile charts provide a basis for understanding what others are paying and where you stand. This creates easy visibility into what your expectations should be.
• Box and Whisker. This provides direct visibility into the band of pricing that exists in the market.
• Regression. Strategic Treasurer’s use of regression allows you to see the trend over time of the average price paid in the industry. Understanding the direction and influences can help you plan and better negotiate agreement terms.
To understand what is happening in the market and to negotiate favorable rates, you must have solid, up-to-date points of reference. This webinar will rely on the Feenix Guide to Bank Pricing to support various statistical and charting tools when reviewing your bank fees.
Webinar: Identifying and Addressing Business Deposit Challenges: A B2C Focus | August 8
Receiving payment from consumers can be even more messy than receiving it from companies. Payment by card, check, digital wallets, and cash all have challenges of their own. Whether physical or virtual, remote or in-person, each factor contributes some type of complexity. Companies with consumer customers need to simplify the complexity of handling various payment types, including the messiest form of all: legal tender – cash. Deposit and collections concerns regarding costs, liquidity, visibility, flexibility, and safety have different rankings depending upon the mode and method of collecting. This session will touch on the landscape of methods, challenges, and solutions used by companies and offered by banks and third parties:
● In-person: cash, check, card, digital wallets
● Remote: check, card, electronic