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April 10, 2024

Optimizing FX Hedging: Leveraging Technology for Cost Reduction

Feeling pressure to cut costs, FX leaders are leveraging tools to determine which currency pairs to hedge and when. Reducing the cost of FX hedging requires a multifaceted approach that integrates technology, data analytics and collaboration across various business functions. With the right strategy and tools, companies can mitigate risks effectively while reducing expenses in an increasingly volatile global marketplace. At last month’s summit meeting of NeuGroup for Foreign Exchange sponsored by Chatham Financial, FX managers emphasized the need for hedge optimization tools…
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Senior ExecutiveTechnology
April 3, 2024

Strategic Thinking: How Paths to CFO and CFO Roles Are Evolving

Promoting people in finance who want strategic roles can be challenging if they find some CFO duties unappealing.By Joseph Neu During the first peer group meetings of NeuGroup’s spring season, I have been listening intently for signals indicating how finance functions are changing course. One trend may be the strengthening of strategic finance roles under the CFO. This development arises in part because not everyone who is drawn to strategic, value-enhancing roles wants responsibility for everything in a CFO’s job…
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TechnologyThe NeuGroup Insights Interview
March 28, 2024

Treasury 4’s Mission: Unlock the Power of Data for Finance Teams

Fintech founders Ed Barrie, Steve Helmbrecht and Nathan Brown explain what compelled them to reunite. The most sophisticated finance and treasury teams are ahead of the curve in turning heaps of data into actionable insights, often with the aid of visualization tools that tell a story better than just facts and figures. A fintech called Treasury4 wants to make data-driven decision-making more accessible than ever for corporates of any size. In the newest episode of NeuGroup’s Strategic Finance Lab podcast—available now on Apple and Spotify, and sponsored…
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Risk ManagementTechnology
March 13, 2024

Planting Seeds: IT Auditors Aim to Harvest AI Insights From Data

The race for leveraging generative AI as a strategic advantage is on, but the ground must be tilled before the field yields results.Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot have swept through the corporate landscape as many companies have licensed or built their own internal instance of the technology. Early adopters in organizations are getting their hands dirty with this new tool, but those in the know realize that their house—the underlying data on which AI models are…
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BankingTechnology
February 21, 2024

Seeking Solutions, Pushing Banks for Change on Signer Management

As NeuGroup members unite to lobby banks, digital signer portals from Citi and J.P. Morgan create buzz. Frustration with the inefficiencies of tracking and updating signers on bank accounts has pushed some members of NeuGroup for Global Cash and Banking to form a subgroup to present a united front in asking banks for digital solutions and standards that will provide real-time visibility to signer data (Step 1) and, ideally, make it possible for that data to flow directly into treasury management systems…
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FP&ATechnologyTreasury Management
February 14, 2024

Sharpening Treasury’s Strategic Profile Means More Collaboration

Members share the rewards and obstacles of collaborations with FP&A, tech, tax and other functions.Top treasurers are growing into more strategic roles and playing a greater part in decision-making at companies where finance is valued as true partner of the business. The function’s broader profile means treasury teams need to collaborate effectively and frequently with a variety of other functions within the enterprise. Doing that well ultimately pays off, but isn’t always easy. In a recent session of NeuGroup for High Potentials, treasury…
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Cash & Working CapitalTechnologyThe NeuGroup Insights Interview
February 14, 2024

Battling Bias To Boost Small Businesses: C2FO CEO Sandy Kemper

The CEO of a working capital platform says early payments can level the field for minority- and women-owned businesses. A slowing US economy and elevated interest rates are putting renewed focus on working capital management and the obstacles faced by many minority- and women-owned small businesses in obtaining bank loans in the current regulatory environment. One way around the problem: early payments that allow vendors to get paid faster and offer buyers a discount. In a NeuGroup video you can watch by…
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Technology
February 7, 2024

Taking Advantage of the Cloud Stall

Smart treasuries are building and testing solutions to drive transformation, not waiting for cloud-based ERP implementations.By Joseph Neu NeuGroup’s 2024 Treasury and Finance Agenda Survey provides a backdrop that helps illuminate how smart treasuries are not letting what I have dubbed the “cloud stall” impede their progress toward digital transformation. The stall occurs when treasury waits for an enterprise to implement a cloud-based ERP—and the treasury functionality ERP vendors are developing—to drive technological advancement. By contrast, smart treasuries are taking advantage…
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FXTechnology
January 24, 2024

Speeding Ahead: How EY Fueled a Six-Month TMS Takeoff

Working with EY, one corporate went from the RFP stage to actively making FX hedge trades in half a year. When one employee responsible for a corporate global order-to-cash process was tasked with upgrading to a new TMS—during a company-wide S/4HANA implementation—she knew she was in for a long and bumpy ride. But with the help of EY, the company was using the TMS for hedging in less than a year, with more functionality still to come. In a recent…
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TechnologyThe NeuGroup Insights InterviewTreasury Management
January 24, 2024

A Citi Expert’s Mission: Help Treasury Leaders Reach New Heights

Citi’s Ron Chakravarti discusses the keys to treasury success on a new episode of the Strategic Finance Lab podcast.Few people in the world of banking know as much about how corporate treasury teams can raise their games and bring more value to companies than Ron Chakravarti, head of global treasury advisory at Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions. His insights are backed by the experience of advising hundreds of companies looking to improve their management of liquidity, working capital and risk. In…
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