It's Time to Choose the Future of Trade Finance

Haleon's Treasury function has advanced its cash management strategy in Europe by implementing collections-on-behalf-of arrangements in permissible regions, improving Group liquidity and enabling richer bank data to support more streamlined reconciliations.

What does it take to make global banking partnerships work effectively at a local level? In this special audible case study, Eleanor Hill sits down with Bert Heirbaut and Marion Reuter to explore the nuances of the relationship between IHG Hotels & Resorts and Standard Chartered across 10 jurisdictions. Our guests discuss the differentiating value of local market expertise in navigating regulatory requirements, currency optimisation, and cross-border payments, and cover the myriad of practical challenges from establishing new entities to opening bank accounts and managing cash across an expanding international footprint.

As the Hellenic Association of Treasurers prepares for its annual summit this month, its officers look forward to strengthening Greece's position on the world treasury stage.

Despite a deadline extension to Swift's structured address data rules, Societe Generale urges corporates to stick to their migration processes and offers a five-point action plan to take advantage of the extended timeframe.

Examining how stablecoin is primed to offer treasurers and their organisations an interesting cash flow and payments alternative.

BNP Paribas warns against believing AI is a silver bullet and explains why choosing the right form of intelligence matters as much as selecting the right use case.

Bank guarantees remain a surprisingly manual part of corporate treasury, with fragmented bank portals, spreadsheets and inconsistent processes making it difficult to maintain oversight across multiple entities. In this special TreasuryCast, recorded live at Treasury 360° Europe in Luxembourg, Eleanor Hill asks Achraf Abourida (Surecomp) to outline how greater visibility can help treasurers challenge bank performance, strengthen controls and bring guarantee management closer to the more data-driven approach used in FX and cash management.

An industry expert discusses whether trade finance will survive if nations fail to embrace digital innovation. All stakeholders must change their mindsets, he urges, and 'emerge from this archaic world'.

Does treasury transformation mean something beyond technology adoption? Eleanor Hill (TMI) sat down with Zoetis' Michel Verholen in Luxembourg at the recent Treasury 360° Europe conference to challenge the idea that transformation starts and ends with a new technology stack. Verholen reflects on what it takes to build a function that can continuously evolve, from laying the right foundations for future capabilities to recognising the human cost of a major programme. With AI adding another tier of uncertainty, he considers where it can genuinely add value and argues why taking small, considered steps may be more effective than trying to design the perfect fucntion from the outset.

How BNP Paribas and Ant International co-created a blockchain-based solution for moving funds that offers real-time treasury capabilities while reducing risk and cost – all within the regulated banking system.