TreasuryCast TMI - Treasury Management International

Welcome to the latest edition of Liquidity Link Live, your exclusive market analysis provided by Northern Trust Asset Management, one of the world’s largest cash managers. Tune in each month to discover the very latest insights on the UK, Eurozone and US markets. This edition was recorded on the 3rd August 2022.

During an era of historically high cash balances, how can corporates best manage the capital structure challenges they are facing today?
Eleanor Hill (TMI) is joined by Standard Chartered’s Shoaib Yaqub to discuss the pressures associated with mobilising cash in a volatile market where forces such as ESG play a key role in influencing investment decisions. Furthermore, given all the excess cash currently sitting on balance sheets, Shoaib considers whether working capital efficiency is sufficiently high on the corporate agenda.

On behalf of those yet to explore robotic process automation, we ask a brace of technologists to reveal its real advantages and limitations, and speak to one business expert whose organisation is leading the way. 

In this audible case study, Ocado's Treasury Manager, Nick Oliver, alongside Bob Stark (Kyriba) Shen Lee (KPMG) and Ben Poole (TMI), will explore how corporates can strengthen treasury and payment controls and enhance operational efficiencies by following an integrated approach to technology.

Manish Jain (J.P. Morgan Payments) joins Eleanor Hill (TMI) to discuss how changing consumer habits in the retail space could impact treasurers, from payments innovation to digital developments such as Request to Pay. 
In this deep-dive into the future of shopping, our guest considers how treasury departments can leverage payments-driven data, defines the notion of 'experimental shopping', and provides insight into the hurdles that persist in relation to cross-border payments.

How can treasurers assess the latest industry innovations and sort genuine trends from hot air? Julie Lubell (J.P. Morgan Payments) has the answers.