BankingCash & Working CapitalTechnology
December 13, 2023

A Journey With J.P. Morgan To Improve Cross-Border Payments

How one member uses the blockchain-based JPM Coin System to streamline cash sweeping. One NeuGroup member whose company operates in Asia, North America and Europe faced a persistent issue with cash trapped in bank accounts after closing hours. To address the problem, he was invited to collaborate with Onyx by J.P. Morgan—and in the process helped shape a new infrastructure for instant payments built on the blockchain. The member, along with a small group of peers, worked with team members from…
Risk ManagementTechnology
December 7, 2023

Flying Into AI Use Cases, an Internal Auditor Turns to Copilot

Microsoft’s Copilot helps pave the way for more use of AI by auditors and others at corporates embracing change. One NeuGroup member who is an early adopter of Copilot, Microsoft’s assistant for using generative AI within its Office suite of products, demonstrated the usefulness, efficiency and power of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT by presenting at a recent NeuGroup meeting with a slide deck generated in part by—you guessed it—AI. The presentation, delivered at the fall peer group meeting of NeuGroup for…
CryptoTechnology
November 8, 2023

Closing the Gap: Corporates Step Toward Digital Assets

NeuGroup Peer Research digs into how all treasuries can catch up to digital assets leaders. NeuGroup’s newest survey, Digital Assets: Current and Future Use Cases, reveals that while many treasury teams have yet to launch blockchain projects and adopt the use of cryptocurrencies and digital assets, there’s a growing core of early adopters who can provide peers with ideas and methodologies for stepping up their engagement. Members of NeuGroup for Digital Assets are blazing a path for corporates, creating real-world use cases for…
TechnologyThe NeuGroup Insights Interview
November 2, 2023

A Chatham Financial Star Says Clients Are the Stars of the Show

Chatham managing partner Amol Dhargalkar describes his personal journey and his vision of the future of finance. This episode of NeuGroup’s Strategic Finance Lab podcast stars Amol Dhargalkar, the managing partner, board chairman and global head of the corporates sector at Chatham Financial—the risk advisory firm where he has spent more than two decades, his entire working career. You can hear his interview with NeuGroup founder and CEO Joseph Neu now on Apple and Spotify. Chatham helps corporations develop strategies to hedge their exposures to foreign exchange, interest rates…
TechnologyThe NeuGroup Insights Interview
October 25, 2023

Making Strategic Finance Decisions Built on Data and Integration

Chatham Financial’s Amol Dhargalkar sees forward-looking treasury teams driving a future of data analysis woven into strategic decisions. In a NeuGroup Insights video you can watch by hitting the play button below, Chatham Financial managing partner and board chairman Amol Dhargalkar shares with NeuGroup founder and CEO Joseph Neu a vision of the future for treasury and financial risk management built on data and integration. He gives two real-life examples that make his points concrete, clear and compelling. Mr. Dhargalkar foresees advanced technology allowing finance teams…
Cash & Working CapitalTechnology
October 25, 2023

Liquidity and Capital Structure Top Treasury’s 2024 Priorities

NeuGroup’s Treasury and Finance Agenda Survey also shows more emphasis and urgency on digital transformation. The biggest risk facing companies next year is an economic downturn, according to preliminary results of NeuGroup’s 2024 Treasury and Finance Agenda Survey. At the same time, 57% of respondents predict interest rates will remain high or even go higher. The result is that treasury teams placed liquidity and capital structure optimization at the top of their objectives for the coming year (see ranking below).…
TechnologyTreasury Management
October 11, 2023

Up the Learning Curve: How Coca-Cola Is Implementing ChatGPT

Coca-Cola’s internal model of ChatGPT has numerous use cases for treasury team members who learn to use the AI tool. Coca-Cola is one of several NeuGroup member companies that have partnered with OpenAI to create an internal version (also known as an instance or model) of ChatGPT that runs entirely on servers owned by the corporate. Within Coca-Cola treasury, senior director of emerging capabilities Rui (Ree) Yang is spearheading the effort to put the artificial intelligence tool to work by guiding employees to find…
FXTechnology
October 11, 2023

Why FX Algos May Belong in a Risk Manager’s Trading Toolbox

Some NeuGroup members are using algos to reduce trading costs and take advantage of aggregated liquidity in the FX spot market. FX algos offer corporate risk managers a well-established technology tool that can, ideally, lower trading costs while increasing speed and efficiency without moving the market when the need to trade falls outside the window of optimal liquidity in the forex market. Algos allow managers to define specific trading rules based on timing, price or quantity to determine trade execution…
Cash & Working CapitalFXTechnology
September 27, 2023

Machine Learning Wizardry: Analytics-Based Cash-Type Forecasting

Data science “wizards” and clean, treasury-tagged cash transaction data are transforming cash forecasting at one corporate. Transaction tagging, data science “wizards,” statistical models and machine learning (ML) are the current cornerstones of an ambitious, yearslong project by treasury at one NeuGroup member company to transform cash forecasting—which now includes grouping cash transactions by type. The FX leader and a member of his team shared details of the project, some of its successes and what they have learned along the way…
CryptoTechnology
September 21, 2023

Corporates’ Tentative Steps Into the NFT Universe

Over half of NeuGroup members that have implemented NFTs manage some portion of the project in-house. Corporate uses of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have had a roller-coaster journey over the last two years, with a boom of adoptions in 2021 that plateaued rapidly. But the tokens are far from dead—nearly a third of respondents to NeuGroup’s newest survey, Digital Assets: Current and Future Use Cases, said they’ve already issued NFTs. NFTs are unique digital assets similar to cryptocurrencies that can be bought and sold, built on…