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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

French financial institution BNP Paribas has announced a FinTech partnership to strengthen its foreign exchange service offerings. The bank noted that the solution will be available to business clients in Europe, the Middle East and Asia (EMEA) regions.

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JULY 24, 2019

s Conservative Party leadership contest is only the latest geopolitical event sparking concerns among analysts over foreign exchange (FX) markets — and corporates’ ability to react to those changes. banks will face a credit shortage following Brexit, leaving small businesses without access to capital.

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APRIL 14, 2020

The digital transformation of corporate treasury is not a destination; it’s a journey. It stands to reason that firms that have been around for decades, with far-flung operations and payments done across multiple currencies, have a range of legacy systems in place with less-than-efficient processes entrenched in back-office functions.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In a new report released from Deutsche Bank’s Global Transaction Banking unit, analysts noted that faster payments are shifting treasurers to embrace real-time processes. One of the areas ready for real-time disruption is foreign exchange (FX) management, which is “the road to real-time treasury,” according to the report.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

The pandemic’s ongoing economic impact has naturally raised the stakes for effective and efficient cross-border payments, according to Shreya Fatehpuria , inter-company and foreign exchange (FX) payments leader at GE. Treasury is in the middle of upgrading our FX infrastructure,” she said. We've suffered losses with the company.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

labor market boosted investors’ expectations that central banks will begin steadily raising interest rates to fight inflation. Treasury yield, which helps set borrowing costs on everything from mortgages to corporate loans, settled at 1.930%, its highest close since December 2019. The benchmark 10-year U.S. Christine Lagarde.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

In a press release , Payment Rails said its white label platform supports business payments sent to more than 220 countries in more than 135 currencies. The firm’s co-founder and chief product officer, Ferhan Patel, said the tool aims to fill gaps left by companies’ own banks.

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MARCH 26, 2019

Globalization and easing barriers to international expansion aren’t simply changing the way corporates manage foreign exchange exposure. This is especially true for SMEs who cannot run the risk of losing 30 percent of revenue on a currency depreciation.”. In 2016, researchers at Coversy revealed the majority of U.K.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

12) in Catering Insight showcased some of the foreign exchange hurdles businesses face as a result of that uncertainty. importer told the publication of its reliance on surcharges to mitigate the risk of currency fluctuations. as part of the growing trend of bank-FinTech collaboration. Reports Monday (Aug.

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AUGUST 2, 2018

corporations are warning that profits and revenues will take a hit as a result of foreign exchange volatility, according to reports in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday (Aug. ” Already the currency volatility has resulted in surprising misses for large firms. . percent,” reports said. ” .

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JUNE 21, 2018

JPMorgan’s treasury management services are the financial institution’s (FI) latest target for technological innovation, reports in CNBC said Wednesday (June 20). The bank is reportedly testing an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered bot to support corporate clients and anticipate their needs. dollar wires to Singapore.

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APRIL 6, 2016

When B2B payments firm Saxo Payments released a new whitepaper outlining the troubles of cross-border payments for corporates, the company was gearing up for its latest release: a real-time foreign exchange trading platform, integrated into its Banking Circle portal.

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APRIL 19, 2018

Multi-currency account provider Centtrip is introducing a way for corporates to make and receive faster cross-border payments. based company, which provides global payments, foreign exchange (FX) and banking services, announced its real-time payments solution on Wednesday (April 18).

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

“The world is moving toward better technology, simpler design and instant access to data and automated analytics,” said Mark Smith, Citi Global head of liquidity management services, treasury and trade solutions. “We In related news , Citi has recruited foreign exchange management firm Kantox to enhance its FX services for corporate clients.

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JULY 10, 2019

Some of the biggest industry trends, including faster payments, open banking and bank-FinTech collaboration, have found their ways into the Canadian market, the B2B payments space is not immune to disruption from these shifts. Open Banking. While Canada has not yet enacted open banking regulatory requirements, much like the U.S.,

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MARCH 30, 2017

Many small British businesses make invoice payments, pay salaries and manage their treasury accounts overseas.”. billion in hidden bank fees related to cross-border transacting. Last year Western Union Business Solutions released new services for small businesses looking to hedge and mitigate against foreign exchange volatility.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Buyers and suppliers are seeking better economics for (and control over) their interactions with one another, looking to mitigate the shocks of currency fluctuations. On the other side of that transaction, the Hong Kong-based business must convert the USD to Hong Kong currency. The banking giant said on Monday (Oct.21)

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Not all that long ago, treasurers would take stock of cash positions at the start of the day … to the best that they could, since some banks might not report positions daily. Knowing where and how much cash there is across various legal entities, countries and currencies is crucial. Maybe not even weekly. Business ended at 5 p.m.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

The latest figures from the Asian Development Bank recently pegged the gap at $1.5 The report noted no correlation between banks’ implantation of digitized solutions in their trade finance operations and rejection rates of providing trade finance to businesses. ” Even as banks (at least, in the U.S.)

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APRIL 22, 2016

But technology is changing the foreign exchange trading game, and market volatility may be the only sure thing in this space. On the heels of the announcement of their partnership, Beeks’ McArthur discussed the forex trading space today and what makes it a challenging, never-before-seen ecosystem for corporate treasuries.

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JULY 26, 2019

With correspondent banking relationships on the decline, financial institutions are looking for new — and faster — ways of moving money around the world, too. Some solution providers like Ripple are introducing new ways to bypass the correspondent banking system entirely. Preparing Banks And Businesses.

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MARCH 2, 2016

Last week, Ripple published a report outlining some of its boldest claims about the potential of distributed ledger technology, including that it could save banks money. We break down the company’s argument as presented in “ The Cost-Cutting Case for Banks: The ROI of Using Ripple and XRP for Global Interbank Settlements.”

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AUGUST 1, 2018

As corporate treasurers grapple with the ever-increasing demands of their role in the enterprise, many of their new responsibilities involve complex management of finances, particularly when it comes to foreign exchange (FX) risk exposures — especially in today’s volatile times.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 22, 2019

per USD, a range set by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the de facto central bank in the city, since May 2005. The HKD is governed by a linked exchange rate system, which is written into the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,” she said. This bank thinks it'll stay appeared first on FutureCFO.

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JULY 30, 2018

dollar was not good for Netflix in the second quarter, and the company’s experience (or lack thereof) with currency hedging holds lessons for other participants in the digital economy. Banks focus on providing something off the shelf,” he said. “We What’s good for the U.S. We build a plan around client wishes.”.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

“Through a combination of gpi and domestic real-time payments networks, we together with gpi banks, will facilitate instant international payments with up-front fee and Foreign Exchange transparency for senders, while also ensuring ubiquitous availability of instant cross-border payments globally,” SWIFT said in a statement.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

As liquidity became a significant concern for organizations, the Treasury Department was asked to monitor inflows and outflows more closely. Co-hosed by Kyriba, the lively discussion highlighted a general shift toward the digital Treasury. One immediate challenge that the Treasury department faced was foreign exchange (FX) exposure.

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AUGUST 24, 2018

That means retailers and other companies need to up their risk management and hedging games — and do so before one crisis or another (a currency collapse in Turkey one week, who knows what next?) These long-term trends can derail a business irrespective [of] how they are performing in the local currency.”. The benefits are real.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

No longer is open banking solely for consolidating financial information into a single platform for one end user. Acumatica Links Its ERP Into Bank Data. Integrated into its ERP solution, the new feature links electronic banking fees to corporate card spend, allowing for automated receipt creation. In the U.K.,

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Visa has announced that it will sell cross-border payments company Earthport’s foreign exchange (FX) business to Pollen Street Capital’s Currency Holdings, according to a report. If you are a treasury bank, you have to operate in both of those spaces,” he explained. Visa paid about $257 million for U.K.-based

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JUNE 15, 2020

GTreasury , a treasury management system provider, is working with Goldman Sachs on a new solution to offer easier, more transparent B2B payments both at home and internationally, according to a press release. Joining forces with Goldman Sachs makes it simpler, more transparent, and more economic for customers to make payments.”.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

A new report from Deutsche Bank suggests that even if adoption of accelerated payments remains muted for corporates, the trend is still affecting the enterprise and how it manages money — a fact that corporate treasurers must pay particular attention to. It’s not huge, but it’s not dismissible, either.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Open banking has opened the path toward a number of banking/FinTech and digital partnerships leveraging APIs to speed innovations. The companies said that the pact lets Horde gain access — through a single point — to the API network offered via Neonomics, with data across 1,300 banks.

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JANUARY 15, 2019

HSBC is increasingly relying on blockchain technology to facilitate its foreign exchange trading services, reports in Financial Times said Monday (Jan. 14), with more than three million FX transactions having already been processed by the bank in the past year via blockchain.

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APRIL 18, 2016

But enabling international payments between corporates could do more harm than good if a business is meddling in foreign exchange without understanding the risks. The addition of Real-time FX to the Saxo Payments Banking Circle recognizes that corporate treasury departments need to trade foreign currency in real time,” he said.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In a press release, Tipalti said Multi-FX gives customers the ability to fund their virtual accounts in a single currency and convert it to the local currency before the payout happens. According to the company, finance organizations are expected to make payments to international suppliers in their local currencies now more than ever.

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

As open banking frameworks take root in more markets around the globe, the model of data integration continues to also take shape in the business financial services market, particularly impacting micro- and small businesses (and the FinTechs that service them). ” Open Banking’s Cost-Saving Opportunities. .

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