Treasury Management Systems Insights

2017 and 2018 have both been predicted to be year blockchain breaks through to the mainstream in fintech, but as of today businesses are still floundering when it comes to finding use cases for the innovative technology. This has not prevented pioneering treasurers from diving into the sandbox to experiment though. Take, for example, the Port of... read more

Last year, Wells Fargo surveyed CFOs and treasury executives and more half (55 percent) of the respondents identified foreign exchange (FX) as a primary concern. This concern stems – at least in part – from the fact that most CFOs now operate in environments where their MBOs (management objectives) are directly tied to corporate... read more

Everything you want to know about blockchain but were too afraid to ask Alara Basul, Reporter, bobsguide Blockchain has created a huge amount of buzz in the financial services industry since its official debut into the market in 2009. The question of when blockchain will go mainstream is yet to be answered, but there is constant... read more

bob’s guide to treasury management systems: How financial professionals can prepare for GDPR Leonie Mercedes - Reporter, bobsguide The penalties for non-compliance of GDPR are high: any breaches incur a maximum penalty of 4% of the organisation’s global annual turnover, or €20m, whichever is more. But many studies... read more

Right time, right place? The EU Tax Barriers Business Advisory Group (TBBAG) calculated in 2013 that annually, roughly €5.47bn in recoverable tax is retained by EU tax authorities. That figure has continued to climb as investors increasingly diversify their portfolios across a wider selection of asset classes and markets. In recent years,... read more

About to invest in a new system? Read this first We launched a survey among bobsguide readers who are in the process of procuring a treasury management system, or have worked with vendors to implement one. Here we share the findings from the survey, and explore the issues it has uncovered with the aim of helping you with the TMS... read more

The specific challenges of the corporate treasury have been sheltered from the impact of the fintech revolution until now. As the results from a new survey of finance and treasury teams reveal, businesses of all sizes are increasingly keen to understand how they can re-unite isolated pools of data distributed throughout the enterprise to drive... read more

THE NIGHTMARE Intercompany position keeping is a simple activity. One entity lends money to another entity and charges interest on it.  Simple, right? ....WRONG. If your Treasury department is managing unstructured intercompany debt then you will be familiar with much of the following problems when managing the positions: a) If... read more

So far in the bob’s guide to treasury management systems series, we’ve looked at how organisations can determine whether they need a TMS, the kinds of systems that are available, and what treasury professionals should consider before making their selection. Now it’s time for the nitty gritty – implementation. As... read more