SWIFT

Zanders congratulates Endemol Shine Group on winning two awards

Payment hubs and bank connectivity

Will the rise of new technology revolutionize payments and bank connectivity?

Benefitting from a new regulation?

The story of SWIFT’s growing global coverage

Trends and challenges in treasury technology

Treasury and Cash Management Technology Survey

EMEA’s shared service centers

Corporate challenges

How to deal with payment fraud and cyber crime?

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...

Future Standardisation of Financial Messages – Quo Vadis?

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 ...

Alliance Lite or SWIFT Service Bureau?

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...

Using SEPA to review payment factory benefits

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...

Making a SWIFT Decision: Alliance Lite or Service Bureau?

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...

Are We Overstating the Advantages of SEPA?

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...

Restrictive Economies: Insurmountable Challenge or Small Obstacle?

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...

Is SEPA the perfect opportunity for implementing a payment factory?

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 ...

The unavoidable opportunities of ISO 20022

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...

EBAM

Your remote control in bank account management

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...

New Treasury Realities

Expect strategic and operational roles to diverge

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...

SWIFT and Zanders Web Seminar on Working Capital Management

A wide audience from banks and corporates listened in on the first Swift Webinar.

Press release – Working Capital Analysis

How to unlock more liquidity from working capital

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 management and working capital

Two sides of the same coin

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....

Zanders and SWIFT enter long-term partnership

One channel for all banks

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...

The hybrid role of Treasury at Boskalis

Sanofi: overcoming complexity to implement a global payment factory

Switch to standardization

GlobalCollect transfers to SWIFT Alliance Lite2 for Corporates

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...

Rapid steps towards new standardization

DSM introduces new SAP system to optimize international payment settlement

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...

Three regional treasuries, three sets of requirements: one RFP

How WPP managed its diverse regional needs to select a new TMS and a Swift connection

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...

SAP Treasury at IFF

Tasteful implementation

“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 and improvement

Bank connectivity for Unilever: convenience, benefit t and improvement The products of multinational Unilever are obtainable worldwide. The company sells brands including Calvé, Ben & ...