TreasuryCast

In the follow up to our podcast covering Swinkels working capital transformation, Eleanor takes a deeper dive into the project, recruiting Group Treasurer Mathieu Ummelen to explain what seamlessly balancing liquidity, resilience, and supplier relationships looks like in practice. Joined by BNP Paribas' Anastasia Batyshkina, Mel Yucel and Nagan Nguyễn-Hansen, the conversation explores why working...

For this special edition of TreasuryCast, the first in a two-part series, Eleanor Hill sits down with BNP Paribas' Anastasia Batyshkina, Mel Yucel and Nagan Nguyễn-Hansen to explore the forces reshaping modern treasury, from shifting liquidity needs and cash flow strains to the increasing importance of data visibility in an increasingly uncertain world. Also featuring key takeways from Royal Swink...

AI is transforming the treasurer's role, enabling leaders to drive greater efficiency, accuracy, and strategic decision-making. Ankeet Dedhia (Microsoft), James Mitchell (FIS), and Carlos Conde (Elire) explore how AI is being adopted across key functions, cash management, fraud detection, and operational efficiency. Attendees will gain insights into real-world use cases, strategies for overcoming...

For treasury teams with exposure to India and China, the daily challenges continue to shift. FX rates still matter, but the harder problems are cash flow predictability, regulatory navigation, and building operating models that can hold a global policy together while executing locally. Two Bank of America experts explain where the real opportunities now lie.

As part of a strategy to provide a customer-first delivery model, Andreea Parneci, Societe Generale's Deputy Head of Global Transaction and Payment Services, believes the bank and its corporate clients should never stop learning from each other. Here, she explains what this involves in practice.

The future of treasury depends not just on speed and innovation, but on interoperability, transparency and trust.

Advanced analytical capabilities make the hidden balance sheet explicit – and the ability to manage it determines whether treasury remains a control function or evolves into a strategic driver of shareholder value.

ING explains why Central and Eastern Europe should be viewed asa region rich in opportunities and relevance.

Digital assets, real-time payments and agentic AI promise a financial system that is faster, smarter and always on. But for CFOs and treasurers, the real question is whether they deliver better decisions, stronger controls and greater confidence.  Phil Carmalt and Sid Gupta (Bank of America) alongside Sharon Toh (Swift) discuss why the future of treasury depends not just on speed and innovation, b...

Eleanor Hill (TMI) sits down with Lionel Joubaud (BNP Paribas) to explore why factoring is gaining renewed momentum among corporates and how technology is transforming its delivery. From API-driven connectivity and seamless ERP integration to the growing influence of AI, e-commerce and e-invoicing, our guest discusses the emerging trends reshaping receivables finance, the future of working capital...

Michael Dillon (Sun Chemical), Rohan Chaddha (RTX), Christine Wang (Chevron Corporation), and Peter Wolf (Serrala) share their experiences of redesigning payment infrastructure within SAP environments – from tackling spreadsheet-driven processes and fragmented systems, to modernising long-standing centralised structures and building fully integrated payment and receipts factories. The discussion e...

Europe's Instant Payments Regulation is speeding towards implementation, forcing a rethink of corporate cash management and cross-border practices. With ISO 20022 enabling richer data and AI sharpening fraud detection, treasurers need to turn the race for real-time into a strategic gain.

As interest rate cycles continue to diverge and geopolitical tensions flare, treasurers are left grappling with multicurrency headaches – often while wading through forecasting fog. BNP Paribas' Arnaud Peis and Matthieu Boyer explain how liquidity structures, with physical hedges and virtual offsets, are helping corporates regain confidence, without surrendering control.

An innovative collaboration between the Ikano Bank Branch in Poland and BNP Paribas Bank Polska has brought Polish instalment loans into the modern age. By linking consumer credit utilisation to BLIK cheques, customers can apply online, receive a decision instantly, and pay in-store with nothing more than a nine-digit code – giving retailers a faster, cheaper, and more scalable way to offer financ...

They might not operate in the limelight, but implementation teams lead the line within banks when it comes to the highly involved and often sensitive task of designing and delivering innovative solutions for clients. In this article, two experts from BNP Paribas discuss the bank's implementation philosophy, and explain what makes or breaks the business of delivering ground-breaking, efficient, and...

Boston Consulting Group has transformed its treasury into a connected, data and analytics-driven operation. The shift delivers sharper visibility, centralised liquidity, and a scalable platform for the next wave of innovation.

The pressure on treasury is no longer simply to manage liquidity and risk, but to help the business respond faster and smarter.  Olivier Anceau and Baris Kalay (Bank of America) explore how, particularly in APAC, volatility, fragmentation and cross-border complexity are pushing treasury beyond execution, towards providing earlier visibility, more accurate forecasting and clearer, decision-ready op...

Strategy is arguably one of the most overused words in the treasury sphere. Yet behind the label lies a more interesting story about influence, connectivity, and the growing expectation that treasury should assist organisations as they proactively navigate uncertainty rather than simply respond to it.

The corporate world has never before had access to so much rich data and fast connectivity. But will this exciting new terrain really change how treasury operates? A recent TMI podcast recorded at Treasury 360 in Gothenburg, Sweden, uncovers the reality of real-time. Lena Myklebust, Head of Cash Management Infrastructure, Equinor, and Christof Hofmann, Global Head of Cash Management, Deutsche Bank...

Agentic AI is already here, but treasury workflows won't be transformed by novelty features or scattered pilots. Five Truths about Making AI Work in Treasury with Grant Walker of Nestlé, Dr Arif Esa of SAP and Aniket Kulkarni of PwC

In addition to welcoming a record 1,346 attendees, offering its largest exhibition to date, and calling upon some well-respected speakers, the annual Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) conference, held this year in Liverpool, showcased a broadening of the Association's programmes. With new ideas around study, membership models, and accessibility, it's all about building on treasury's appeal...

At Bank of America's recent corporate treasury and Financial Institutions client events in Singapore, finance leaders explored how faster decisions, cleaner data, stronger controls, and deeper partnerships can turn volatility into action.

The growing adoption of instant payments across Europe marks a significant shift, driven by SEPA harmonisation and the introduction of the Instant Payments Regulation (IPR). But for corporates, instant payments are not an end in themselves. Antoine Bourgier, Head of Payment & Cash Management Solutions, Societe Generale, reveals how this world is developing

Live from the conference floor of Treasury 360° Nordic 2026 in Gothenburg, Sweden! Candid insights and hot takes from 5 treasury and finance leaders, unpacking the rise of real-time and programmable treasury, AI-powered finance teams, next-gen risk management, and much more. Tune in to hear a fast-paced snapshot of how Nordic treasury is evolving into strategic, tech-enabled business partners.

As digital assets mature, treasurers are reassessing their relevance beyond experimentation. Societe Generale's Geneviève Douhet, Director of Digital Assets Programs, Global Transaction Banking, and Floor Meeuwis, Director of Liquidity and Virtual Account Management Advisory, Global Transaction Banking, join Stéphanie Cabossioras, Chief Strategy & Global Policy Officer, Societe Generale-FORGE (SG-...