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Royal FloraHolland has been on a journey to optimize their cash management processes. With a complex landscape consisting of two SAP systems and several banks, the choice was made to implement SWIFTâ€...
Despite the tremendous push towards fully automating trade confirmations between banks and corporates in recent years, many transactions are still confirmed manually. Manual confirmations are slow and...
S/4 HANA Advanced Payment Management (APM) is SAP’s new solution for centralized payment hubs. Released in 2019, this solution operates as a centralized payment channel, consolidating payment flows ...
In this article we explore some methods to connect corporate ERP or treasury systems with partner banks. In addition, it explores some trends on how SWIFT is accessed and covers SAP’s Multi-Bank Con...
On 24 September, Zanders hosted the Payment Hubs & Bank Connectivity Seminar in collaboration with the Dutch Association of Corporate Treasurers (DACT) and Enigma Consulting. The event offered corpora...
Since our company was founded 25 years ago, Zanders’ team has been involved in many SAP Treasury implementations. SAP Treasury was first developed in the early Nineties and has since been regularly ...
Over the last months Endemol Shine Group won two prestigious globally recognized Treasury awards for their innovative transformation solution. Global Finance awarded Endemol Shine Group as the ‘Best...
A payment hub increases efficiency and straight-through processing by centralizing and optimizing payments. It's all about automation and increasing insight, visibility and the opportunity to decrease...
As technology advances rapidly, there is a lot of discussion about how robotics, artificial intelligence and distributed ledger technology will impact our lives. But what are the key trends in the are...
The revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) is a new European regulation that aims to benefit all end users in the payments space, both consumers and businesses alike. How is it relevant for you?
Bank connectivity can be problematic for organizations, particularly when they have to deal with complex, bank-specific solutions that are labor-intensive, prone to operational issues and don’t alwa...
The key findings of the first annual Treasury and Cash Management Technology Survey, by Zanders and Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions, highlight some of the trends in the deployment of enterprise reso...
Companies across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) have been at the forefront of the adoption of shared service centers (SSCs) in order to lower costs over the past two decades as part of a br...
In the past few years, many companies have centralized their payment processes by setting up a payment factory. The main focus of these types of projects is often on change management and technical...
As business is increasingly done on a global level, communicating efficiently with internal and external stakeholders is a basic requirement for corporates. Luckily, the era of sending messages by ...
With SWIFT’s launch of the cloud-based Alliance Lite2 (AL2) last year and the recent introduction of new requirements and certification of SWIFT service bureaus (SSB), the question is: how ca...
With the Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) deadline just six months away, many companies are busy preparing to use SEPA-compliant payment standards. With the restructuring that this entails, is no...
Corporate treasurers often look to SWIFT to standardise cross-border messaging, to facilitate payments and other financial transactions, and to avoid being bound to one bank’s proprietary sys...
Many articles that have appeared in gtnews have stressed the benefits that will result for corporates and treasuries from the single euro payment area (SEPA). However, Arn Knol of Zanders sugges...
There is a clear trend of corporate treasuries undertaking major treasury transformation projects with a focus on increasing efficiency, enhancing visibility and reducing costs. The issue is exa...
Payment factories and SEPA are two of the most-discussed topics within corporate treasury in recent years. On gtnews alone there are over 230 articles on payment factories and over 500 articles ...
Since the announcement of the SEPA end date, ISO 20022 is no longer a distant prospect but is now high on the agenda of many treasuries. On 1 February 2014, the majority of payments and direct debi...
An increasing focus on bank account management is being observed among European corporate customers. Worldwide treasury trends such as centralization, standardization and the increasing independenc...
In the year ahead, the key developments in strategic cash and treasury management will be influenced by four ongoing global trends: standardization, centralization, virtualization and bank independ...
A wide audience from banks and corporates listened in on the first Swift Webinar (30 March 2011). Bas Rebel, executive consultant at Zanders explained what impact the 2008 credit crisis and the new Ba...
Zanders study reveals that since September 2008 liquidity locked in working capital is at record level not seen this decade.
Zanders reports that companies can leverage SWIFT to unlock mo...
Cash visibility and working capital management are a priority at a time when credit is no longer readily available – smart choices in both areas are necessary to weather the financial crisis....
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) enables banks to communicate with each other in one language and via one network, SWIFTNet.
For several years compani...
With subsidiaries all over the world, ASICS wanted to standardize and make its treasury operations more efficient. To optimize its treasury function, ASICS Europe (AEB) decided to implement the SAP Tr...
Switzerland’s Swiss Re is the world’s second largest provider of reinsurance and insurance-related risk products. Traditionally the company insures events that can lead to huge losses, such as nat...
Dutch company AkzoNobel is known worldwide for its coatings and specialty chemicals for both industry and consumers. As part of a new strategy to accelerate growth and value creation, the multinationa...
In the summer of 2015, Johnson Controls International (JCI) announced that it would divest its Automotive Division via a spin off in a new publicly listed company: Adient. Shortly thereafter, JCI anno...
As a maritime multinational, Boskalis is involved in large scale projects all over the world. Due to the complexity of these projects, the Treasury department has a strategic role within the company a...
When the multinational pharma company Sanofi set out to implement a global payment factory based on SAP, the sheer size and scope of the project made it seem a Herculean task. But with meticulous plan...
A transfer to a new system is usually a complicated and time-consuming process. This rings particularly true for a company like GlobalCollect, which processes hundreds of thousands of online transa...
Although DSM’s payment factory offered an exceptionally high level of service, the system was no longer supported by SAP and, to avoid rising maintenance costs, Dutch multinational DSM decide...
WPP has treasury operations on three continents and each center has its own individual needs. The company needed to devise a request for proposals (RFP) for implementing a new treasury management s...
“The people who work for IFF are dedicated to taste – they spend their day at work creating, say, a new flavor of soda or dessert,” says Eric Vastenhoud.
Zanders s...
Bank connectivity for Unilever: convenience, benefit t and improvement The products of multinational Unilever are obtainable worldwide. The company sells brands including Calvé, Ben & ...
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