As Finland was an early adopter of the single euro payments area (SEPA) payment instruments, Finnish corporates and their treasury teams learned many valuable lessons, which can now be shared with other treasuries. One should plan well ahead and be ready to look further down the road beyond mere compliance, to achieve optimal benefits. This article reviews some of the challenges faced and supplies answers according to what companies learned from the migration process.
Read more »The spinning jenny mechanised and automated the spinning process and took it to the textile factory, thus revolutionising the textile industry in its time. Today, there is another revolution going on that is at least as big. Now companies are creating payment factories, where centralised and automated systems for cash inflow and outflow are working away on efficiency, control processes and reducing costs.
Read more »Giuseppe Matassi is known the world over as a cash management and cash flow forecasting specialist. However, technical niceties were not the main topic of our conversation, we just talked cash. How come? "Banks will be more and more reluctant to use their balance sheet to lend to corporate customers, so companies will need to make more efficient use of their own cash. Forecasting is not primarily a system issue but a strategic business issue, and now more so than ever before.
Read more »Finland's prompt actions in the adoption of the single european payments area (SEPA) has driven forward the standardisation of banking in the other Nordic countries. SEPA is founded on the XML-based ISO 20022 standard, which allows automation, and is therefore becoming an increasingly global standard.
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