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Welcome to the Corporate Treasury 101 podcast! Today we start a new series of episodes! We really wanted to talk about Working Capital Management... And that is what we are going to do! You start to know us, we really like to deep dive into topics which is why in this episode you can expect to learn: - What is a balance sheet and what do we typically find on it - What are financial statements - Wh...

Welcome to the Corporate Treasury 101 podcast! This is the full episode of our payment’s journey series on credit cards  Corporate treasury is also about managing and optimising payments and how to receive payments from others. This series aim at breaking down the most common payment instruments used in the market. In this episode, expect to learn: What actually is a credit card, and the differenc...

Welcome to the corporate treasury 101 podcast! This is the 4th (and last) snippet of our series on Debit and Credit cards. This episode will be dedicated to: the implications of debit/credit cards for Treasurers! We know.... Finally! In this episode, expect to learn: - Why big companies try to avoid making payments via cards - How B2C companies need to properly configure their collections set-up s...

Welcome to the corporate treasury 101 podcast In today’s episode, we continue our payment journeys series on credit cards We covered in previous episodes what are credit cards exactly and how payments are processed when you pay make a payment via such a card It is now time to talk about costs and fees. We are corporate treasurers after all... In this episode, expect to learn: - How banks really ma...

Welcome to the corporate Treasury 101 podcast! Have you ever wondered what really happens when you pay with a credit card ? How is that made possible, who are the stakeholders involved, how is the money transferred? Well if so, you are about to have an answer to those questions In this episode, expect to learn - what are card payment networks and how they operate - What is an issuing bank and an a...

Welcome to the Corporate Treasury 101 podcast! And welcome to our Payment journey's series!  In the episode of today, we start talking about debits and credit cards!  This is indeed the natural direction after tackling physical cash and cheques, the two most popular paper based instruments.  In this episode, expect to learn: - What the main differences are between debit and credit cards - Wha...

Welcome to the Corporate Treasury 101 podcast! And welcome to our Payment journey's series!  In the episode of today, we tackle cheques. From what they are, through how they work and up to how Corporate Treasury departments deal with them.  In this episode, expect to learn: - What really are cheques - The different types of cheques that can be found on the market - What cheque clearing is and...

Welcome to the Corporate Treasury 101 podcast!  This is the last snippet of our series on cheques! We broke down in the two previous episodes what are cheques, the different types and the process of cheques clearing In the episode of today, expect to learn: How cheques are used by corporates, for payments and collections The implications it has for corporate treasury departments The places in the...

Welcome onboard our Payment journey series! Today, we continue to breakdown cheques and go a little bit further in details about them. In this episode, expect to learn: - What does clearing mean, and how cheques are processed and cleared by the banks - How banks communicate between each other when it comes to cheques clearing and balance verification - What a clearing house is and mean, and the ex...

Welcome to the corporate treasury 101 podcast In this episode, we would like to continue our payment's journey Some episodes ago, we talked about cash, how is was put in the economy, how it is used in society and its impact on Corporate Treasury Today we cover, cheques! This instrument that Hussam likes to call a boomers technology But in certain part of the world, it is still widely used In...

Welcome to the Corporate Treasury 101 podcast! Today we finish our series of episodes with Craig Chapman from Actualize Consulting. Craig is a Senior Manager and specialised in Treasury systems & technologies, Treasury transformation projects and... Netting! In this episode, we apply Netting to the real world! With a use case of a Netting implementation Craig managed for a client. We won'...

Welcome to the Corporate Treasury 101 podcast! Today we continue our series of episodes with Craig Chapman from Actualize Consulting. Craig is a Senior Manager and specialised in Treasury systems & technologies, Treasury transformation projects and... Netting! This episode is a section of the previously issued episode. We focus in this one on: - How does Netting and Multilateral Netting work t...

Welcome to the Corporate Treasury 101 podcast! Today we continue our series of episodes with Craig Chapman from Actualize Consulting. Craig is a Senior Manager and specialised in Treasury systems & technologies, Treasury transformation projects and... Netting! This episode is a section of the previously issued episode. We focus in this one on: - What is Netting - The difference between bilater...

Welcome to the Corporate Treasury 101 podcast! Today we welcome another amazing guest: Craig Chapman from Actualize Consulting! Craig is a Senior Manager and specialised in Treasury systems & technologies, Treasury transformation projects and... Netting! Which is the topic of the day. In this episode, expect to learn: - What is Netting - What is bilateral and multilateral netting - Why do comp...

Today is our last episode with Koen De Smet. He is a director in a Treasury consultancy and in our series of 4 episodes we are talking about systems in Treasury. In this episode, we focus on the implementation part of a system. How do companies choose a system? Based on what criterias and requirements? Or how does a typical implementation go, from planning, through testing and until go-live? Those...

Today we have Koen De Smet, a director in a Treasury consultancy talking about systems in Treasury . We cover the main systems we can find in the Treasury landscape, on top of the core one (TMS - Treasury Management System) In this episode, expect to learn what a Payment Hub is, what a trading platform can be used for, why a Cash Flow Forecasting tool can be very handy to a company (especially now...

Today we have Koen De Smet, a director in a Treasury consultancy talking about systems in Treasury . What is that? You will find out very soon. In this episode, expect to learn what are systems used for in Treasury, what the main tasks that can be done through them (and not by humans anymore), why would a corporation use a system and as of when. We of course discuss the main function of the core s...

Today we have Koen De Smet, a director in a Treasury consultancy talking about systems in Treasury . What is that? You will find out very soon. Expect to learn why corporations need treasury systems such as payment hubs, trade finance systems and Treasury management systems. Koen really is a master on these topics as his day job is doing system transformation projects for some of the biggest compa...

Learn the fundamentals of corporate treasury by downloading your FREE copy of the Corporate Treasury eBook Here ! Cash Is King.  So Lets talk about how to manage it when its physical. Today Guillaume takes us through how bank notes are created and enter the economy, why they’re a huge hassle for corporate treasurers and why your banking partnerships are a key part of managing the whole operation o...

Learn the fundamentals of corporate treasury by downloading your FREE copy of the Corporate Treasury eBook Here ! Cash Is King. But not when its in the form of bank notes. Then it’s just a hassle for corporate treasurers to manage, as its essentially not liquid, you need to digitise it to invest. Today Guillaume will take us through the implications of having to manage a lot of bank notes for a tr...

Learn the fundamentals of corporate treasury by downloading your FREE copy of the Corporate Treasury eBook Here ! Bank notes are dying out. But they still dominate payments in most of the world, accounting for 75% of all payments actually. But how does cash get into our pockets to be spent with companies? How do corporations manage the cash they receive and get that cash where it needs to go to be...

Download your FREE copy of the Corporate Treasury eBook Here ! We are going back to basics again today and bringing you an overview of the 4 fundamentals of Corporate Treasury. Expect to get a quick refresher/ intro on cash management, corporate finance, risk management and banking partnerships as defined by Guillaume as the core pillars. You can listen to the full episodes on each of the fundamen...

This is the 4th, and last, episode of this amazing feature series with Mike Richards from the Treasury Career Corner podcast. For this special episode, Mike shared the microphone with Katie Hardie, Recruitment specialist for the European markets, so she could help him answer our grueling questions. In this episode, we focus our conversation on the latest trends in the Treasury Market. We discuss t...

After two fascinating episodes about the early stages of a career in Treasury and the “Mid-Level” as a manager, here is the long-awaited episode about what it takes to make it at the Top. In this episode,  we talk with Mike Richards, the CEO of the Treasury Recruitment Company about what we find at the top of the Corporate Treasury food chain. Assistant, Deputy, International, Group and Global Tre...

Treasury Manager is the natural evolution of the Treasury Assistant and Analyst positions. But what does it really mean to be a Manager in Corporate Treasury?  Being able to touch upon any Treasury topic - Cash Management, Financial Risk Management, System implementation, Basics of Accounting and so on is for sure a strength. But the Managers that stand out are those excelling at people skills and...