In response to Covid-19, since March 2020, NeuGroup has conducted some 190 virtual meetings on Zoom: Regular NeuGroup Meetings. 1-2-day virtual NeuGroup annual and bi-annual meetings, replacing in-person off-sites (with multiple sessions and shared breaks) that are no longer possible for health and safety reasons Crisis Check-Ins. 60-90-minute COVID-19 crisis response check-ins, with 15-30-minute expert updates from selected partners, practitioner breakouts to share experience, questions and expert insight, while learning about customer/prospect challenges and needs; ending in a share back…

Like several of  our member companies, NeuGroup added Juneteenth to our official company holiday list last week.  At NeuGroup last week, June 19 moved from a regular Friday to a company holiday celebrating Juneteenth, the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.  On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the Civil War had ended and that the enslaved were now free. This…

Congratulations to Goldman Sachs on the official launch of their transaction banking service. Goldman Sachs is entering the cutthroat and increasingly crowded world of corporate cash management determined to play the role of innovative disruptor—no easy task. A cornerstone of Goldman’s strategy is a product whose name is familiar to many corporate treasury professionals but that is not fully understood by all of them: virtual accounts. We are pleased to support Goldman Sachs in their effort to help build a…

NeuGroup's Life Sciences Treasurers' Peer Group members are supporting businesses that are directly or indirectly helping with vaccines, treatments, testing and other measures to keep us safe and well in this pandemic and its aftermath. We and our sponsors at Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking - SGCIB are thus doubly proud to support them at this time. Thank you for all you do and for participating in our series of Zoom meetings. Thanks as well to Guido van Hauwermeiren, Larry Williamson and their colleagues…

Latin America is being hard hit now by both the Covid-19 virus and the economic domino effects. Thus, we wish all the best to NeuGroup Latin America Treasury Peer Group members as they work to support their businesses and all their stakeholders in the region while keeping their families safe and well.  Thanks for Zooming in for the 2020 H1 Meeting! Anne Friberg and Martin Trueb led the way to a meaningful exchange at their meeting this week, obrigado. https://youtu.be/iq2DsQTWtaA

The importance of regional treasury centers has been further validated by the Covid-19 crisis, says HSBC. And so have NeuGroup's European Treasury Peer Group members via their sharing and learning on how best to emerge from it. A special thank you to them for their engagement on this and other topics, as well as HSBC for their sponsorship. Tim Reid, Jean-Philippe Huguet, Holger Zeuner and Betrand de Comminges, we appreciate your insight. A wonderful job, as usual, Anne Friberg. https://youtu.be/MAaD4_ONr5M

Dru Shiner, Kevin Ehinger, Jordan Novak and the entire C2FO team, thank you for your support of NeuGroup's Assistant Treasurers' Leadership Group H1 meeting last week. I know you join me in thanking all our members who shared and learned on so many topics of note. Kudos to Scott Flieger and Edward J. Scott for bringing you all together.  https://youtu.be/wZN9GSjmp9Q

NeuGroup's Tech20 High-Growth Treasurers' Peer Group met last week to share and learn with each other and TIS (Treasury Intelligence Solutions), our H1 sponsor, on capital plans, bank connectivity and data for cash forecasts. Thank you to all, including Joerg Wiemer and Markus Holzmüller from TIS, and Alice Xu who was to have hosted IRL. Kudos to Anne Friberg and Martin Trueb for leading the proceedings.  https://youtu.be/GB_Tyl3GWbQ

Our Global Cash and Banking Group is arguably the most important group in the NeuGroup Network right now, given its focus on cash. A huge thank you to its members therefore for sharing and learning on this all-important topic at last week's meeting and to ION Treasury for their insight plus supporting #neugroupGCBG this meeting cycle.  Michael Kolman, Leslie Regino and all of your colleagues at ION, thank you.  Julie Zawacki-Lucci, CTP, you pulled together another big meeting on Zoom, well done! https://youtu.be/iMLR3ybH6Go