Within the past year alone, thousands of finance and treasury practitioners worldwide have learned through bitter experience that digital payments fraud is rarely orchestrated by your average, everyday criminal. Instead, an increasing number of today’s digital fraud attacks, particularly those that target corporate treasury and finance teams, are perpetrated by sophisticated, well-funded, and innovative fraudsters. … Read more

Regardless of a company’s industry or composition, one common challenge that most treasury and finance teams must eventually confront relates to their bank connectivity and payment processes. In many cases, the use of numerous bank portals, messaging formats, payment methods, and back-office systems deployed by a company over time inevitably creates a complex web of … Read more

To create efficient cash positioning and forecasting workflows, treasury and finance teams must first streamline a series of core operational functions across their business. Today, these functions include: · Capturing, aggregating, and classifying financial data from banks, internal departments, back-office systems, and entities in a timely and accurate fashion, · Collaborating with their peers in … Read more

When it comes to treasury and finance software, there are enormous challenges associated with managing the complex web of digital platforms and vast quantities of data that corporate operations require. To efficiently streamline and unify these ecosystems, creating scalable and secure data infrastructures that can accommodate long-term growth is key. Today, TIS is actively addressing … Read more

To develop effective cash forecasting workflows that address liquidity and working capital optimization on a global scale, treasury and finance teams must first streamline a series of core operational functions that are paramount to success. Today, these functions include: However, as many organizations continue to suffer from globally disparate data siloes that are exacerbated by … Read more

Over the past few years, a combination of industry data and direct experience has shown that Treasury is becoming increasingly critical to the success of an organization. For practitioners, however, this has resulted in an ever-growing list of tasks and responsibilities that includes more frequent “real-time” C-level reporting, as well as a heightened emphasis on … Read more

Compared to the treasury and finance operations at most corporates, the workflows and technologies used by non-profits and international non-governmental organizations (INGO’s) often have a distinct composition. Due to their cash and labor-intensive operations that are often located in underdeveloped countries, INGO treasury departments frequently end up facing more complexity than their corporate peers. Today, … Read more

As scaling treasury teams look to adopt new technology solutions for improving their operations and driving greater automation and efficiency, there are typically a few core challenges that must be addressed up-front. These challenges often relate to a limited budget for investing in new solutions and a lack of available bandwidth from both treasury and … Read more

Although Fintech solutions have come a long way in a relatively short time frame, there is still tremendous upside for APIs and other programming applications to improve the industry. While perfecting the API logic behind complex financial integrations has taken time, there has been significant progress achieved over the past decade. Today, APIs are providing … Read more

As scaling treasury teams look to upgrade their technology, banking, and payment structures, it’s common for those that have been relying primarily on Excel spreadsheets and e-banking portals to begin considering the use of more specialized solutions. However, one of the more frustrating realities about the treasury technology landscape is that many available products are … Read more

The 2023 AFP Annual Conference is from October 22 – 25, 2023 at the San Diego Convention Center, 111 W. Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92101. Headquartered outside of Washington, D.C. and located regionally in Singapore, the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) is the professional society committed to advancing the success of treasury and finance … Read more