Liquidity management – the rise of the virtual account
Virtual accounts have now gained an amount of traction, with lots of discussion and successful case studies.
Virtual accounts have now gained an amount of traction, with lots of discussion and successful case studies.
While real-time data remains an ideal, the cash management process needs first to adapt to expanded ecosystems and networks.
The new platform will allow businesses to optimise the rate they’re generating on their cash balances.
With the right approach and clever outsourcing, cash management becomes a success for FIs.
Three key areas of focus are cash management, working capital, and trade finance.
Focusing on trade finance/supply chain finance, payments and cash management, and central banking.
Facing increased competition from financial services upstarts and tech firms, banks are doubling down on application programming interfaces (APIs) as a competitive tool, a new report shows.
Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) has gone live with new cash and liquidity reporting software, SmartStream Technologies’ Corona. The bank has taken “a proactive approach to Basel III” – being the first in the region to do so, said the vendor. The new centralised solution will help to monitor and manage cash positions on an intraday basis, throughout the RBI group.
A Dutch international cash management services specialist, Bank Mendes Gans (BMG), is implementing a new cash and liquidity management system, SmartStream’s Corona. It will go live in Q4 2016, managing BMG’s 500,000 transactions per month.
Global investment bank Jefferies has chosen a cash management solution from software firm TwoFour Systems for its UK and US-based Jefferies Bache Treasury business, to help it keep better track of its business processes.