In this June-July 2025 edition of the Treasury News Recap series, we highlight five key news stories relevant to corporate treasury teams. From AI-driven automation and real-time payment innovations to expanded fixed income access, seamless API-powered payment connectivity, and enhanced tail spend management solution for corporations, these stories offer timely updates and actionable insights to help treasury and finance professionals stay informed, compliant, and competitive in today’s dynamic corporate cash and treasury management landscape.

GTreasury unveils AI platform designed for treasury and finance operations

GTreasury has introduced an enterprise AI platform designed to support treasury and finance operations, with a focus on reducing manual workloads and maintaining regulatory oversight. Now embedded within its treasury management system, the AI capabilities assist users to automate routine tasks, identify exceptions, and gain decision-support insights across areas such as cash forecasting, liquidity, payments and risk.

The platform is built on agent-driven workflows and emphasizes transparency and control. Each AI-generated output is fully traceable back to source data, with built-in audit trails, role-based access, and explainability tools. Users can configure access via opt-in controls and feature flags, ensuring alignment with internal governance.

Security and regulatory compliance are central to the platform’s framework. It aligns with global standards including ISO/IEC 42001 and ISO/IEC 27001 and is structured to meet requirements of the upcoming EU AI Act. The system also supports GDPR and CCPA compliance, enforcing strict data residency, client data segregation, and policies ensuring that no client data is used to train AI models.

The launch follows GTreasury’s expansion of its Dublin development centre and mirrors a larger industry trend—leveraging AI to boost treasury efficiency while safeguarding oversight and compliance.

ICD Portal users gain direct access to U.S. Treasury bill (T-bill) trading

Tradeweb has launched U.S. Treasury bill trading for corporate treasurers through a direct connection between the firm’s ICD Portal and its institutional trading platform, offering users a more streamlined way to manage short-term investments. The move enables ICD Portal users to manage T-bill investments alongside money market funds, separately managed accounts, bank deposits, and bond funds within a single platform. The integration is intended to support greater automation, price transparency, and operational efficiency across treasury workflows.

This marks an important first step in a broader plan to expand fixed income access for corporate treasury teams following Tradeweb’s acquisition of Institutional Cash Distributors (ICD) in 2024. By linking the portal directly to its institutional platform, Tradeweb aims to deliver straight-through processing for high-liquidity products and currencies.

ICD Portal currently serves over 550 corporate treasury organizations and facilitates more than US$4.5 trillion in annual trading volume. As of December 31, 2024, nearly 17% of S&P 100 companies use the portal.

Bank of America clients embrace new $10 million limit in U.S. real-time payments (RTP) 

Bank of America’s (BofA) corporate clients are rapidly adopting the new $10 million transaction limit on the RTP® network, following The Clearing House’s decision to raise the cap on real-time payments from $1 million to $10 million. As one of the first financial institutions to enable access to the higher threshold, BofA reports significant uptake from corporate customers—particularly for high-value use cases such as real estate transactions and deal closings.

Within just six weeks of the limit change, BofA notes that payments exceeding $1 million now represent more than half the total value of all RTP payments processed by the bank.

By accommodating larger transaction sizes, the RTP® network has expanded its usefulness for corporates, especially for time-sensitive and high-value transactions. As adoption continues to grow, companies are exploring use cases such as just-in-time supplier payments, real estate settlements, and account-to-account money movement.   

Jay Davenport, co-head of GPS Global Corporate Sales at BofA, said: “The instant nature of real-time payments is a huge advantage for optimising working capital and cashflow.”

Investec joins Kyriba Marketplace with real-time API payment solution

Investec has launched API-powered payment connectivity within the Kyriba Marketplace, enabling real-time payments for companies across Central, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA). This development expands Investec’s presence in Kyriba’s Bank-Connectivity-as-a-Service (BCaaS) ecosystem and allows mutual customers to initiate payments directly through the Kyriba dashboard.

The integration streamlines access to Investec accounts using Kyriba’s API network, which connects to more than 9,900 banks across a variety of protocols including API, host-to-host, and SWIFT.

The strategic collaboration is designed to enhance the accessibility to digital payments infrastructure in emerging markets, particularly Africa, where real-time payment adoption is gaining momentum.

“This collaboration underscores Kyriba's commitment to driving financial innovation in emerging markets like Africa,” observed Felix Grévy, Head of API and Connectivity at Kyriba. “By leveraging our API Connectivity Network, businesses across the region can unlock enhanced payment efficiency, improve data visibility, and strengthen financial resilience. Our solutions empower finance teams to focus on strategic decision-making and growth initiatives.”

Mastercard and Pay4You partner to streamline corporate tail spend management

Mastercard has joined forces with Pay4You, a self-service payment portal, to launch a comprehensive tail spend management solution for corporations across Europe.

By leveraging Mastercard’s Virtual Card Network (VCN) technology and ensuring card acceptance, this partnership delivers a streamlined and effective approach for managing corporate tail spend.

Tail spend refers to the portion of corporate expenditure that procurement teams typically do not manage directly. While it usually accounts for around 20% of total spend, it includes a large number of low-value, high-frequency transactions that often go unnoticed yet represent a significant share of total transactions.

The integration of Pay4You’s platform with Mastercard’s virtual card technology enables corporations to lower costs, improve process efficiencies, and maintain compliance—while offering employees a more user-friendly experience. It also allows issuers to shift traditional account-to-account (A2A) payments onto card rails, unlocking new transaction flows.

Pay4You will also utilize Mastercard’s latest embedded VCN technology, which simplifies onboarding for banks, platforms, and corporates—helping to accelerate virtual card adoption.

That concludes our June–July 2025 Treasury News Recap series. From AI advancements and regulatory-ready platforms to smarter investment access and enhanced spend management, it's clear that the pace of corporate treasury developments and innovation isn’t slowing down. Keep your finger on the pulse—explore articles, industry roundups, interviews, and videos on CTMfile, and don’t miss the latest discussions on the Open Treasury Podcast, your go-to source for practical treasury intelligence.