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EACT SURVEY 2021

Simply Treasury

Major priorities over the next one to two years: We are not surprised that Cash-Flow Forecasting comes out on top when the COVID crisis has been hitting us for the past year. The uncertainties surrounding the economy explain the difficulty in producing reliable and accurate forecasts.

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JPMorgan On Corporate Treasurers And Their ‘Digitization Journey’

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In an interview with Karen Webster, Sairam Rangachari, global head of Digital Channels and Open Banking, Wholesale Payments at JPMorgan , said treasurers seeking to gain visibility into cash management can find application programming interfaces (APIs) to be a useful (and even critical) tool. Age And Complexity.

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Canada’s Path Toward B2B Payables Modernization

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Traditional accounts payable suffers multiple points of friction often rooted in that data is stored on paper or stuck in emails, is rarely integrated across multiple back-office systems, and is not easily digitized and analyzed for reconciliation and cash management purposes. Faster Payments. Open Banking.

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Tracking Treasurers’ Progress In Handling Greater Corporate Responsibilities

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Nearly 80 percent said the treasury department plays the lead role in long-term borrowing activity, for example, while more than half also said their treasurers take the lead on long-term investments, payment strategies, and working capital management. The role of corporate treasurer now expands beyond handling foreign exchange volatility.

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Robotics Process Automation Rakes In The VC Cash

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The FinTech targets friction and costs associated with foreign exchange (FX) conversion fees and volatility that corporates experience when making payments to their vendors across borders. Existing backers, such as Xavier Niel, also participated in the funding. Purpose Financial LP led the funding round, reports said.

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Are you worried about the USD-HKD peg? This bank thinks it'll stay

Future CFO

She added that HKMA has enough exchange funds to defend the peg via market channels—spot and derivatives—and it has experience in defending the peg successfully, as seen in the Asian financial crisis in 1998. HKD and interest rate forecasts ING also predicts that the HKD’d strengthen from the current 7.84 level to 7.82

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FinTech/API Efforts Gain Ground in Europe

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The company said that the API-led platform will let partners — including banks, retailers, credit unions and others — access payment and foreign exchange services through a single place. Services include cash management and cross-border payment and currency conversion across APIs.