Team collaboration apps allow NeuGroup members to safely share and learn from a distance during the pandemic. Most forward-looking treasury professionals (like our NeuGroup members) have been using web-based team communication tools like Slack, Microsoft Teams and others for years. But the onset of Covid has expanded their use within corporate suites—and these days dining room tables—creating a unique test laboratory to explore how they might be incorporated even more into daily use. In addition to Slack and Teams, NeuGroup…
November 20, 2020
Networking in the New Normal with EuroTPG
The European Treasury Peer Group uses digital meeting technology and a “speed dating” format to recreate networking opportunities in a meeting sponsored by Standard Chartered. NeuGroup’s European Treasury Peer Group met virtually this week for their second half meeting, and ended with a type of session new to this group: digital speed networking. After all the members had opportunities to communicate and speak with one another on curated topics that directly affect their current priorities, they had the opportunity to…
November 17, 2020
AsiaCFO Meeting in Shanghai – Back to Old Times
The NeuGroup for MNC CFOs for greater China meets in person for the first time in 2020. The first NeuGroup to meet again in real life took place last week in Shanghai. “It did feel like the old days,” as one member noted. Since COVID-19 has been effectively contained in China, members in Shanghai wanted to return to a “normal” meeting. Going around the table with projects and priorities sharing, indeed, felt like old times. A unique group As NeuGroup…
November 10, 2020
Tech20 Alumni Tell How the Group Helped Them
Alumni Zoom-ins to ‘20 Years of Tech20’ celebration tell the story of peer helping hands. By Joseph Neu. One truly special aspect of last week’s Tech20 Treasurers’ Peer Group 20th Annual Meeting, sponsored by MUFG, was the Alumni cameo Zoom-ins. Former members stopped by to share their favorite Tech20 memory, yet what came through most memorably is how the group helped them while they were members in treasury roles. With the success they were able to show as treasurers, they…
November 6, 2020
Perfect Fit: NeuGroup Members Connect with Chatham to show Assistant Treasurer Leadership
Members Share and Learn on Common High-Priority Issues in Perfect-Fit Meeting Agenda. At the start of last week’s meeting of NeuGroup’s Assistant Treasurers’ Leadership Group, members began by sharing their current highest priority projects with one another to see where everyone stands. And thanks to the member-led planning team, the many common threads that emerged among this conversation each had their own session in the meeting agenda, allowing time for members to share and learn in the NeuGroup Process. The…
November 5, 2020
Tech20 Opens 20th Annual Meeting Roasting Retirees
NeuGroup kicked off the Tech20 Treasurers’ Peer Group 20th Annual Meeting last night with a comedy roast of two beloved members who are retiring from the group. Two beloved members of Tech20 are retiring from the group and were featured with jokes in a virtual comedy show to help kick off the 20th Annual Meeting of the Tech20 Treasurers’ Peer Group, sponsored by MUFG. The opening night also featured some special-guest alumni cameos that will continue throughout the meeting, which…
October 29, 2020
The Fastest Growing NeuGroup Continues on Its Upward Trajectory
NeuGroup for Capital Markets recently embarked on its second meeting with discussions on ESG, the debt market, liquidity and more. The fastest-growing NeuGroup ever, the NeuGroup for Capital Markets, had its second-ever meeting via Zoom just over a week ago, with treasury professionals on debt capital markets teams sharing and learning with one another, sponsored by Deutsche Bank. After the first day of meetings, members had time to unwind and bond with one another in a virtual trivia contest, competing as teams…
October 21, 2020
TREX In Action: An Extraordinary Group of NeuGroup Member Companies Rolls Out a New Name
The newly rebranded group of market leading and iconic companies met with sponsor Societe Generale to share and learn on elections, digitization and more. Members of NeuGroup’s newly rebranded Treasurers’ Roundtable for Extraordinary Companies, or TREX, gathered last week to share and learn in a virtual meeting sponsored by Societe Generale. Thanks to everyone who participated! TREX was re-branded to provide a forum for treasurers from companies which have the following qualitative and quantitative characteristics: Commanding position in its industry…
October 9, 2020
NeuGroup Debuts a Group for High Achievers and a Middle East Business & Treasury Roundtable
A pilot meeting for NeuGroup for High Potentials takes flight and a roundtable for professionals in the Middle East kicks off. NeuGroup this week held two first-of-their kind meetings: A Middle East Business & Treasury Roundtable sponsored by Standard Chartered, and a meeting of NeuGroup for High Potentials, which brought together high-potential employees identified by NeuGroup member companies. The Middle East and beyond. A dynamic virtual meeting offered Standard Chartered’s clients in the Middle East and members of NeuGroup in…
October 2, 2020
Women in NeuGroup Meet Virtually To Discuss Sponsors, Advancement and Working From Home
Sponsor Deutsche Bank and more than 50 women in finance shared insights and advice on managing careers at the latest WiNG event. A record number of women—55— participated in Women in NeuGroup (WiNG)’s fifth event, hearing insights from speakers at companies including GE and P&G and sponsor Deutsche Bank. Much has changed since WiNG took flight in 2019 with three in-person meetings, but NeuGroup’s mission remains the same in this new, virtual world: To offer women in treasury and…