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Payments - Receipts

Five ways invoice innovation can cut costs

by Kylene Casanova

It's an imperative for finance departments – particularly those with oversight for accounts payable (AP) – to explore how invoice automation can cut costs and resources.

Cash Flow Management & Forecasting

Complex IT preventing efficient financial planning, survey

by Kylene Casanova

Overly complicated systems, reliance on spreadsheets and huge volumes of data are some of the main obstacles financial departments are facing in their financial planning.

Financing

Tackling illiquidity in corporate bond markets

by Kylene Casanova

Corporate bond markets are a key funding source for companies but they are facing regulatory and liquidity challenges, as discussed at a recent ESMA event.

Payments - Disbursements

Banks receive SWIFT rebate but corporates not benefiting

by Kylene Casanova

SWIFT has announced that customers will receive an annual rebate of 10 per cent on their 2015 messaging fees, to be paid in March 2016. The rebate is worth approximately €32 million.

Cash & Liquidity Management

The prognosis for our zero-rate economy?

by Kylene Casanova

Are we facing a protracted period of 'secular stagnation' that no central bank can fix? How much longer can the zero-rate economy continue and how can we climb out of the 'liquidity trap'?

Cash & Liquidity Management

China curbs yuan cross-border business

by Kylene Casanova

China's central bank has taken steps to limit cross-border yuan trading by several foreign banks until the end of Q1 2016, according to reports from Bloomberg and Reuters.

Treasury Technology

BELLIN launches a tm5 Thomson Reuters Edition

by Kylene Casanova

New edition of BELLIN’s TMS solution - tm5 - shows how cloud-based service solutions will dominate treasury processing and systems in 2016