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TechnologyThe NeuGroup Insights Interview
January 15, 2025

Gen AI’s ‘Inherent Superpowers’: An Innovation Expert’s Vision

Insights from Mastercard’s Nima Sepasy on finance use cases for solutions built with emerging tech like generative AI.Finance leaders who may be a tad tired of questions from senior executives or board members on how they plan to put the magic of generative artificial intelligence to work should not let the hype overshadow this reality: Gen AI has “inherent superpowers” they can tap to reach higher levels of accuracy, efficiency and transformation in areas including cash forecasting, liquidity management and…
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Cash & Working CapitalTreasury Management
January 15, 2025

Treasury’s Better Idea Enables Product Team To Please Customer

Asked by the business to open a customer bank account, treasury proposes a better approach, a win for everyone.Bringing a better idea to a product team responding to a customer’s request served as a powerful demonstration of one treasury team’s strategic value and ability to enable business partners to succeed. This example of treasury using its expert insights on financial transactions and processes emerged during a conversation at the NeuGroup for Tech Treasurers 2024 Tech Summit. And while the company’s industry—financial services—may…
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RegionalTechnologyTreasury Management
January 9, 2025

Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Best of NeuGroup Insights

What to Watch in 2025. Welcome back! NeuGroup Insights is kicking off 2025 with a look at some of the key treasury and finance themes NeuGroup founder and CEO Joseph Neu will be watching closely this year. It’s no surprise to those of us who know him that Joseph’s list is weighted toward technology that is transforming treasury and bringing the future of finance forward. But in keeping with our belief that technology exists to serve societies and help individuals thrive, his first entry concerns the…
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BankingCash & Working Capital
December 18, 2024

Cash Flow Collaboration: Bridging Treasury and Procurement

Aligning treasury and procurement can be key to improving working capital management, but that requires skillful change management and relationship building. As treasury teams face increasing pressure to improve working capital management amid higher interest rates, cash conversion cycles are emerging as a key metric for success. At NeuGroup’s inaugural Working Capital Symposium this fall, attendees highlighted the growing priority of developing strong relationships with procurement to shrink conversion cycles and optimize cash flow—which, as one assistant treasurer aptly put in the…
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BankingTalking ShopTechnologyUncategorized
December 18, 2024

Talking Shop: How To Remove Employees’ Bank Portal Access Faster

Editor’s note: NeuGroup’s online communities provide members a forum to pose questions and give answers. Talking Shop shares valuable insights from these exchanges, anonymously. Send us your responses: [email protected]. Context: Multinational corporations with hundreds of bank accounts at dozens of banks spread across the globe face some major challenges. One big pain point: efficiently tracking and updating which employees have access to online banking portals and who among those people are authorized signers. The challenge is twofold: Treasury has to manage whose…
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Cash & Working Capital
December 11, 2024

More Tech Treasurers Weigh Dividends After Mega-Cap Initiations

A majority of tech firms in NeuGroup’s Capital Structure Survey pay dividends and more are considering the move. Fast-growing technology companies historically pumped profits back into the business to fuel more expansion. Most shunned paying dividends to shareholders, a use of capital seen as a sign of slowing growth. But the tide started turning in 2024 for Big Tech, with Google parent Alphabet, Facebook parent Meta and Salesforce all initiating dividend payouts. “We landed on a modest dividend and for us…
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Cash InvestmentsTalking Shop
December 11, 2024

Talking Shop: Should Investment Policies Mention the 1940 Act?

Editor’s note: NeuGroup’s online communities provide members a forum to pose questions and give answers. Talking Shop shares valuable insights from these exchanges, anonymously. Send us your responses: [email protected]. Context: No corporation that is not an investment company wants to cross a line that would make it subject to the Investment Company Act of 1940. The ’40 Act regulates mutual funds and other companies that engage primarily in investing and trading securities and may also issue securities. Falling under it would require time-consuming,…
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Investment Management
December 4, 2024

Building SMA Portfolios Where Managers Play to Their Strengths

One treasury team hopes to add diversification and reduce overlap by giving external asset managers more flexibility. A member of NeuGroup for Cash Investments wants to change his company’s investment policy so that the same asset-mix mandate that now covers every separately managed account (SMA) is instead applied to the combined portfolio of six SMAs. “This would create more flexibility for us to partner with our group of SMAs and allow each of them to focus on a certain target duration or…
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TechnologyTreasury Management
December 4, 2024

Expanding Treasury’s Role and Influence: A Vision for 2030

A Citi GPS report offers ways treasury can modernize to avoid irrelevance in an increasingly real-time world.Put aside, if only for a moment, the challenges and opportunities treasury teams will face in 2025. Consider instead what they need to do in the next five years to expand the function’s role and influence. This week, in a report titled Treasury 2030, Citi GPS offered its vision of how treasury can develop into a more proactive, strategic partner enabling business growth. The provocative…
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Cash & Working CapitalRisk Management
November 20, 2024

Rethinking Global Funding Strategies in Liquidity Structures as Geopolitical Risks Rise

Fewer capital injections and intercompany loans to subs, more frequent dividends, and local borrowing helps ring-fence risk and reduce interdependency in markets where corporates face restricted currencies and geopolitical threats. Partnering with global banks with deep knowledge of each country’s regulations and risks can pay off. The Russia-Ukraine conflict that erupted in 2022 shocked treasury and finance leaders into a heightened awareness of geopolitical risk, a shock compounded by the aftereffects of a pandemic that had exposed overreliance by corporations…
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