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Pre-Conference Workshops
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
8:30-9:30 a.m.
10:30-11:45 a.m.
1:45-3 p.m.
4-5 p.m.
Quantum Computing: The Looming Threat Destined to Disrupt Financial Data Security
Quantum Computing: The Looming Threat Destined to Disrupt Financial Data Security
Research centers around the world are working to create a large-scale general-purpose quantum computer. In fact, some nation-states are investing tens of billions of dollars to “win the race.” For many years, the question was whether such a computer could ever be created. Now it’s, when will it happen? Experts warn it is only a short time before quantum computing will render a significant portion of today’s cryptographic data protection methods ineffective, exposing mass quantities of financial and personal information. In this session, panelists cover the basics of what quantum computing is, the looming threat it poses to information security, and what financial professionals can do now to avoid a potential disaster in the not-so-distant future.
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Artificial Intelligence in Corporate Treasury: Added Value?
Artificial Intelligence in Corporate Treasury: Added Value?
Corporate Treasury is turning to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to better manage liquidity, control risk and support business initiatives. In this session, gain a structured perspective on how to drive your Big Data and AI strategy and demystify integration of these opportunities in your operations. Beyond the potential that can be released from your data, learn about leveraging the data and insights from your financial institutions and other providers.
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Using Big Data Analytics in Executive Reporting
Using Big Data Analytics in Executive Reporting
Big Data analytics tools are becoming more popular in organizations. This discussion examines the role these tools play in reporting to executives and the Board and whether it is a good idea to give executives access to these tools as a substitute for regular reports. Additional conversation includes a look into which visuals should be used when creating these reports, the options for exporting visuals and data, and how to clean up the exports in common office software.
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The Evolution of a Great Numbers Presentation
The Evolution of a Great Numbers Presentation
Presenting numerical information is a communication skill, and your numbers must tell a story. Just getting the numbers right is only 10% of your job, just as spelling your words correctly is only a tiny part of a writing challenge. With the backdrop of a common valuation and acquisition scenario, attendees learn techniques and walk through the steps needed to turn a meaningless pile of numbers into a coherent narrative that bolsters the presenter’s reputation as a deep business thinker and not just a number cruncher.
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How Do You Become a Great Finance Business Partner?
How Do You Become a Great Finance Business Partner?
Imagine a future where your monthly close is automated, your management reporting is generated by the click of a button, and your forecast is predicted accurately by AI. What’s left for FP&A to do now? The answer is business partnering! Attend this session to hear how you can partner with business stakeholders to impact the strategic direction setting of the company. Attendees learn that business partnering, when done effectively, requires a different mindset, new skills and most importantly, a solid framework that are easily attainable.
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401(k) and Retirement Programs: Adding Value and Limiting Liability
401(k) and Retirement Programs: Adding Value and Limiting Liability
Retirement offerings are essential to helping employers attract and retain top talent, but litigation around these programs – especially 401(k) plans – has skyrocketed in recent years. Smart strategies for selecting investment options and vehicles and managing expenses are critical to addressing potential liability and adding value. Just as critical is the ability to identify trends in the retirement plan marketplace that could enhance value for participants or be the next litigation wave against plan sponsors. This session provides concrete action steps to enhance the ability of financial professionals responsible for retirement plan investments to add value for plan participants and avoid problems for plan sponsors.
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Out of The Lab and Into The Business
Out of The Lab and Into The Business
Getting real value from technology requires a lot more than just IT and an “innovation lab”. Meaningful innovation calls for fundamental changes in culture, skillsets, mindsets, and operational practices. Top firms are redefining their approach to talent and delivering real value with new technologies like AI, blockchain, and robotics. Join Dan Houlihan, of Northern Trust, and Danielle Valkner of PwC as they share industry insights into what it takes to practically apply innovation in ways that improve bottom line results..
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Creating a Global T&E Card Program While Leveraging Enhanced Technology and Capabilities
Creating a Global T&E Card Program While Leveraging Enhanced Technology and Capabilities
Harley-Davidson transformed its decentralized T&E card program - with 13 different card providers over 5 countries - into one Global T&E Card Program, covering 28 countries for 3,200 employees. In this session H-D summarizes their RFP process and program implementation process. Attendees gain insight into the challenges encountered, and successful outcomes - increased employee satisfaction, enhanced fraud prevention and increased rebate.
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Payment Fraud and Cyber-security: What You Need to Know
Payment Fraud and Cyber-security: What You Need to Know
As the financial landscape becomes more digitized, the risk of payment fraud - both small- and large-scale - is increasing, and the methods used by cybercriminals to complete illegal transactions or fraudulently steal money are becoming more sophisticated. Well-known social engineering strategies like phishing are now joined by more advanced techniques such as invoice fraud and CEO impersonation. This session provides valuable insights into prevalent payment frauds, and examines the risks to financial operations and the protective measures companies can implement.
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Sharpen Your Focus on Smarter Receivables
Sharpen Your Focus on Smarter Receivables
There’s always room for improvement of your B2B receivables operation—no matter how basic or complex it is. Whether it’s all checks, all electronic or somewhere in between, building a strategic plan is the first step. While increasing electronic payments received improves efficiency for payers, it may not benefit AR without thoughtful planning. Why? Payers often separate payments from remittance detail or provide incomplete data, increasing manual processes. Unless you take a strategic approach and leverage effective tools to support receivables application and posting, you’re going to be left behind. Discover the challenges your peers are facing in driving toward a paper to electronic receivables strategy; the best practices and tools available to help AR practitioners address these challenges; and how Tronox set its AR objectives, created a strategic plan and delivered metrics-driven results.
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A Seat At The CFO's Table - How HCSC Utilizes Business Intelligence Tools To Make Strategic Treasury Decisions
A Seat At The CFO's Table - How HCSC Utilizes Business Intelligence Tools To Make Strategic Treasury Decisions
Blue Cross Blue Shield's treasury leaders are expected to be subject-matter experts in cash management, capital efficiency, cash forecasting and portfolio allocation. A panel of treasury directors from Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) discuss how they earned a seat at the CFO's table by striving for best practices, and share examples of how they expanded the application of business intelligence tools and technology. Learn how they applied automated reporting to make daily strategic decisions that centralized treasury operations, freed up trapped cash, improved working capital efficiency and dramatically increased investment portfolio returns.
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Credit Agreement Refinancing Consideration
Credit Agreement Refinancing Consideration
Refinancing your credit facility is a significant decision for any company. Among the factors driving the discussion, pending maturity dates and changing interest rates top the list. What else? What are the considerations beyond these two standards that matter to CFOs, Treasurers and cash management professionals? And how does the process unfold? Find out as Hunton & Williams Partner Kim MacLeod moderates a panel comprised of Cameron Warner, treasurer of NewMarket Corporation and Jay Droogan, Managing Director (Originations) at JP Morgan Chase Bank, designed to provide an insider’s view on how companies approach the refinancing process and the insights a trusted banking partner should provide.
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US Tax Reform - Impact on Corporate Treasury
US Tax Reform - Impact on Corporate Treasury
The 2017 Tax Reform Reconciliation Act (TRRA) is potentially one of the most significant regulatory changes for businesses today. For the corporate treasurer, the reform could affect everything from capital allocation, capital structure and funding strategies and cash and liquidity management practices, to structure and organization. In coordination with tax, many leading treasury functions are actively evaluating their company’s financial positions and structures to identify new opportunities to drive shareholder value. Find out about the key reforms relevant to treasury and walk through the various implications for liquidity management, corporate finance, risk management and the operating model. Panelists present perspectives and examples of what companies have been doing to address reform requirements and utilize a case study to facilitate discussion.
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A Treasury Guide to M&A
A Treasury Guide to M&A
The global merger and acquisition (M&A) market has seen significant growth in recent years as companies embrace strategic transactions to achieve transformational growth. Over 50,000 transactions were completed in 2017, with a total value of $3.5 trillion. Unfortunately, it is estimated that more than half of M&A transactions fail to achieve targeted benefits due to integration challenges. From a treasury perspective, early involvement is critical to ensuring a successful integration for a buyer (or de-integration for a seller). By developing a proactive treasury M&A plan, you can contribute to a smooth process and to the overall value of a transaction. In this session, a panel of treasury professionals from Gibson Energy and its lead cash management banks, RBC Royal Bank and JPM Morgan, share their unique experiences and lessons learned from recent transactions to provide you with a road map for successfully navigating through your next strategic transaction.
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The Search for Yield, High Quality and Downside Protection for Corporate Cash Portfolios
The Search for Yield, High Quality and Downside Protection for Corporate Cash Portfolios
In a rising rate environment, downside protection becomes paramount and a portfolio that produces smooth and steady cashflows can help stabilize portfolio performance. Discover strategies for constructing broadly diversified, corporate cash portfolios with liquid, highly rated securities that generate attractive yields in this session. Presented by a corporate practitioner, a fixed income portfolio manager and treasury consultant, we cover a broad universe of investments for short-duration portfolios including corporate debt and asset-backed securities. Strategies for minimizing interest rate risk and improving diversification without sacrificing credit quality are discussed, as well as strategies for managing cash funds in-house, hiring external managers and implementing an IPS protect liquidity, preserving capital and navigating the new interest rate landscape.
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Tuesday
Wednesday
8:30-9:30 a.m.
10:30-11:45 a.m.
1:45-3 p.m.
4-5 p.m.
Shared Services: Role in Treasury's Evolving Value Chain
Shared Services: Role in Treasury's Evolving Value Chain
Treasury transformations can take on many different shapes and sizes. Find out how a shared service center can be leveraged to better ring fence risk, strengthen cash controls, enhance daily routines, reduce process inefficiencies and provide a unique value-driven experience to support the commercial operations of the business in this informative session. Specific areas of focus include governance models, global banking structures, disbursement and receivable processes, cash forecasting and reporting as well as the enabling tools and technology. Explore a representative case study based on leading companies’ experiences and lessons learned from rolling out a shared service center.
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The Dark Horse Driving Albertsons Companies Improving Profit Margins
Innovation Series
10:30-11 a.m.
Innovation Series | 10:30-11 a.m.
The Dark Horse Driving Albertsons Companies Improving Profit Margins
The retail industry is facing a sea of changes, with national grocery store chains feeling the pressure just as much as any other non-perishables retailer. One of the strongest and oldest of those retailers, Albertsons Companies, has adapted and innovated under consumer pressure, serving as a model for all industries. The secret to their financial-improvement transformation? Tapping opportunities within their supply chain through data intelligence and trade finance. Gregg Maxwell, group vice president, shares Albertsons Companies’ most compelling and instructive strategies to provide real financial improvement in a time of increasing consumer and investor pressure.
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It's All In Your Head: Overcoming Obstacles in Your Career
Innovation Series
10:30-11 a.m.
It's All In Your Head: Overcoming Obstacles in Your Career
Innovation Series | 10:30-11 a.m.
Treasury professionals work in a highly complex and dynamic environment filled with countless obstacles to success. Could you be one of them? In this thought-provoking session, a distinguished leadership development expert challenges attendees to recognize and examine their own decision-making processes to uncover potential roadblocks, confirmation bias - the tendency to reinforce what we already believe, negativity bias – assuming the worst. Learn how to apply positive psychology to overcome obstacles and takeaway practical solutions for developing new thinking patterns and adopting a more optimistic approach for greater success.
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Key Considerations with Alternative Investments for Pension Plans
Key Considerations with Alternative Investments for Pension Plans
When considering whether to add alternative investments to the overall investment strategy of a company’s pension assets, practitioners must weigh the advantages against the potential risks. Within a case study framework this session explores the legal and tax implications of using alternative investments as part of an investment strategy for pension assets, including common terms in agreements, best practices for institutional investors, side letter provisions to negotiate with investment funds, and strategies to minimize risk exposure to unrelated business income tax (UBTI).
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Developing High Potential Talent in Finance
Developing High Potential Talent in Finance
Do you want to understand how to better develop and retain high-potential finance professionals within your organization? APQC, a nonprofit best practices research organization, recently conducted a study seeking to understand the state of talent management within finance functions. The study addresses several key questions including: How effective are finance high-potential talent development programs? Are high-potential finance employees being positioned to operate effectively in a data-driven business environment? How effective is the training organizations are giving high-potential finance employees? In this informative and interesting session, APQC presents the highlights and implications for finance professionals from its study, and the vice president of talent and growth initiatives from ArcBest discusses the successful practices and lessons learned for finance talent management at his organization.
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Minimize Risk and Keep Cash Flowing in New Markets: Manage Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
Minimize Risk and Keep Cash Flowing in New Markets: Manage Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
Whether doing business overseas or keeping it closer to home, managing risk comes down to good optics. This session explores the value of competitive intelligence related to companies exporting to emerging markets and how to manage vulnerabilities in your supply chain in the event existing trade agreements are changed. Payment experts discuss how to safeguard your assets, capitalize on emerging markets and gain a competitive advantage all while ensuring a sustainable operation in a global supply chain.
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Technology Trends Enabling Corporate-Bank Communications for the 21st Century
Technology Trends Enabling Corporate-Bank Communications for the 21st Century
Many initiatives impacting the global payments industry are underway, driven in part by new entrants, emerging technologies, and regulatory and compliance pressures. As a result, business models are evolving along with the day-to-day life of the corporate treasurer. In this session panelists discuss how leveraging new technologies such as SWIFT gpi, DLT and APIs can help improve fluidity in cash management and ultimately enhance the corporate customer experience.
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Global Payment Integration: Best Practices in Deployment
Global Payment Integration: Best Practices in Deployment
The need to onboard and integrate an array of global payments is of paramount importance for global companies. This panel reviews how recent regulatory changes, payment options and innovation are impacting businesses and how they are responding. Learn how corporates and FI's assess, implement and deploy particular payment types; how they are integrated into the companies' ERP; and determine the checklist of how risk, compliance, legal, IT, treasury and operational parties achieve their objectives. Explore global regions and countries that have commonalities and assess how ISO-20022, M-Pesa, Blockchain, Alipay, PayPal and mobile wallets impact evaluation and deployment, and how these teams are managing the risk inherent in the payment. Discover by what means companies determine how real-time payments influence future decisions and illustrate how others may apply a set of parameters as a model for future investment.
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The U.S. Path to Faster Payments
The U.S. Path to Faster Payments
The United States stands on the verge of a transformation regarding how businesses and consumers make payments. Rapid technological innovation, demand for faster and smarter payments, and the impressive will of the industry have collided to create an unprecedented opportunity. Tomorrow's Payment innovation will rely heavily on the experience that Banks can deliver to their users - highly secure, simple, predictable and fast as complex and varying experiences are the enemy to large scale adoption. In this session hear from the Federal Reserve, The Clearing House and NACHA about their work on improving payments in the United States - The Federal Reserve shares insights on the 16 faster payments solutions proposed to the Faster Payments Task Force, and address opportunities as well as challenges facing the payments industry; NACHA discusses how Same-Day ACH is being used and address corporate feedback; The Clearing House discusses how banks and industry are working together to make real time payments & integrated messaging capabilities a model for usability, simplicity and innovation for both consumers and businesses of all sizes. Also, learn about the toolkits and standards being developed to support RTP and to drive innovation.
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Beyond Bitcoin: Technology Behind the Hype
Beyond Bitcoin: Technology Behind the Hype
While Bitcoin has been making headlines, it’s the technology behind it that has the potential to revolutionize how future financial markets work. The traditional ledger has evolved from paper to spreadsheet, but what’s next? Distributed ledger technology (DLT) represents an opportunity to radically transform current business processes, resulting in more efficient and secure financial ecosystems that will reduce settlement times for digital and mainstream financial assets. Join this session for a discussion of the widespread application of distributed ledger technology and its potential to change the way information is processed and secured. Also, review how DLT will enhance the ways traditional banking services are delivered and its potential impact across all industries.
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Advanced Interest Rate Hedging: Back to (The New) Basics
Advanced Interest Rate Hedging: Back to (The New) Basics
Many companies have some level of familiarity with interest rate hedging from years past, but are finding that a few key elements have changed in the market. As we’re now seeing a sustained rising rate environment, stakeholder views on risk are changing. We also have a new accounting standard, different regulatory requirements as Dodd-Frank reform has evolved over the past few years, and even changes to valuation methodology. Interest rate hedging can also take on new complexities when you introduce M&A activity, multi-currency debt structures, pre-issuance hedging, and prioritization of counterparty credit relationships. This session takes a step back to evaluate broader capital markets activities and where hedging currently fits in this picture for companies with various risk profiles. We’ll also draw on practitioner insights around navigating market complexities, achieving wholesale pricing, accounting standards, and stakeholder communication.
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Mind the (Yield) Gap: Corporate Cash Strategies for Rising Rate Environments
Mind the (Yield) Gap: Corporate Cash Strategies for Rising Rate Environments
For years, cash managers “enjoyed” steady short-term bond markets, but the landscape has shifted. With rising rates and increased yields, suddenly the unrealized losses are increasing, and the impact of elevated cash balances on EPS has caught the CFO’s attention. To balance the portfolio, and capture higher yields, alternative strategies should be implemented. This session examines available portfolio construction tactics as well as those utilized at Garmin to successfully position their portfolio to benefit from recent rate increases and volatility.
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Finance and Risk Management in a New Digital Age
Shawn DuBravac
Finance and Risk Management in a New Digital Age
The next era of financial inter-mediation is upon us and the coming digital decade will transform every aspect of finance. Digitization is opening new market opportunities from AI-driven decision making to crypto-currencies, while bots and other emerging technologies are influencing how individuals interact, changing the adviser-client relationship. Futurist and author, Dr. Shawn DuBravac shares how mounting cyber-attacks, the rise of artificial intelligence and digitized data are altering risk management, how decisions are made, and how valuations are derived.
Shawn DuBravac
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Driving Technology Innovation in FP&A through Staff Development
Driving Technology Innovation in FP&A through Staff Development
The pace at which blockchain, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are impacting finance can be overwhelming. Rather than react to solutions pitched by vendors or hoping that internal IT staff will present creative and efficient technological solutions, one FP&A team took steps to become its own technology innovator. Hear how the organization proactively identified tech savvy staff on the existing team and in the hiring process, and then supported them with time and education. As a result, the team was able to develop and implement low-maintenance and low-cost solutions that link operational, financial, and forecast data so that FP&A can stop pulling reports and coloring charts and better analyze and predict the future.
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The Power from Within: A New Way of Reviewing Bank Fees
The Power from Within: A New Way of Reviewing Bank Fees
This session takes a different approach to reviewing bank fees. Busy treasury and finance practitioners need to shift their thinking when reviewing their monthly account analysis statement. The power from within your account analysis statements will streamline banking procedures, uncover inefficiencies throughout your organization, and decrease expenses just by reexamining your banking fees in a different manner. Account analysis statements should be viewed as an operational management tool, not just a bank invoice. They should serve as a decision support document that assists in monitoring internal procedures, analyzing various types of bank services and their usage, and determining who in the banking industry is offering better and more innovative bank services. Learn how you can create appropriate bank relationships, conduct service comparisons and improve internal processes—all while decreasing your overall bank expenses to reduce what is reported on your account analysis statements.
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Leveraging Introversion as a Superpower
Innovation Series
11:15-11:45 a.m.
Leveraging Introversion as a Superpower
Innovation Series | 11:15-11:45 a.m.
Introverts naturally have innate abilities that are key to building relationships, which are critical to effectively communicate in any endeavor. This is especially true with a career in finance. Even if you're not an introvert, understanding this superpower can unleash your own unique abilities and help you work better with introverts. Learn how to turn introversion into jobs, assignments and opportunities. Gain an understanding of how introverts can take on more than may be perceived and how to utilize this trait to quickly and effectively close skills gaps and drive results.
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The Evolution of Forecasting: Merging the Best of Human and Machine Intelligence
Innovation Series
11:15-11:45 a.m.
The Evolution of Forecasting: Merging the Best of Human and Machine Intelligence
Innovation Series | 11:15-11:45 a.m.
Finance leaders want to ensure that they have the most accurate forecasting process, while controlling investment of time and resources in the process. Yet forecasts can potentially be biased, are time consuming to create, and difficult to reproduce and integrate with new data streams. Enhancing forecasts with machine learning can combine the best of human and machine intelligence leading to more accurate, dynamic and up-to-date forecasts. Join this session to learn how Microsoft's finance organization is leveraging machine learning to enhance their forecasts and examples of how this was applied effectively. Learn best practices in applying machine learning to your forecasts.
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Tuesday
Wednesday
8:30-9:30 a.m.
10:30-11:45 a.m.
1:45-3 p.m.
4-5 p.m.
Become a Treasury Superhero by Gaining Control over Bank Fees and Merchant Card Fees
Become a Treasury Superhero by Gaining Control over Bank Fees and Merchant Card Fees
Every treasury department knows they should have control over the expenses incurred through bank fees and merchant card transactions. We all know we need to do better but have lacked the ability. Until now. Explore the concepts of accessibility, visibility, accountability and predictability that allow us to finally gain control over these stubborn expenses—and make you a superhero in your organization.
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The Evolution of Captives: A Holistic Risk Financing Tool for Organizations of all Sizes
The Evolution of Captives: A Holistic Risk Financing Tool for Organizations of all Sizes
As business and risk management processes have advanced, captives have proven to be a nimble solution with the ability to evolve with an organization. Today’s captives come in all sizes and structures, which enables them to cover the wide array of clients that utilize them. In this session, captive owners representing the spectrum of captive use discuss how they incorporate captives into the core of their risk management strategy. No matter where your company’s risk profile lies, there is a captive that can fit — from small captives structured around catastrophic risks to more traditional captives focused on frequency driven risks, up through truly strategic captives that integrate innovative and emerging risks such as third-party business. Hear from a panel of captive owners, moderated by a captive industry leader, on how to take a phased approach to your captive’s growth plan that allows it to evolve with your organization’s risk management philosophy.
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Leveraging Blockchain for Identity and Authentication
Innovation Series
1:45-2:15 p.m.
Innovation Series | 1:45-2:15 p.m.
Leveraging Blockchain for Identity and Authentication
Blockchain is a huge factor behind the rise of IoT and key to its foundation. It allows people and companies to record, validate and track transactions throughout a network of decentralized computer systems and is also being used to secure payments and smart contracts making authenticating to the Blockchain more critical to the security of IoT systems. This session demonstrates how these devices and systems are secured as they scale to millions and billions of connected points. Learn how to authenticate devices on Blockchain as it progresses from 2.0 to Blockchain 3.0 decentralized apps.
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The Impact of Faster Payments on the Global Economy
Innovation Series
1:45-2:15 p.m.
The Impact of Faster Payments on the Global Economy
Innovation Series | 1:45-2:15 p.m.
In recent years the push for faster payments has greatly accelerated and is further exacerbated by outdated systems and frameworks that are hard, if not impossible to change. To help mitigate these challenges, several initiatives have formed in the US, including The Clearing House’s Real-Time Payments System, NACHA’s Same-Day ACH, and most prominently the Federal Reserve’s Faster Payments Task Force. American Express and Ripple, two members of the Fed’s task force discuss the key to faster payments - substantially improved cross-border payments and interoperability between countries and take a close look at the barriers to economic growth and global expansion of products and services.
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Proven Partnering Practices for Best-in-class Retirement Programs
Proven Partnering Practices for Best-in-class Retirement Programs
The challenge of managing costs, reducing risk and ensuring compliance, within a complex regulatory and legislative environment while still achieving high participant satisfaction is a great one. This case study explores the dynamics of treasury, finance and human resources partnering techniques utilized by PATH, an international nonprofit organization and leader in global health innovation. Attendees of this session walk away with best practices that generate a 98% participation rate and high asset retention, including financial wellness programs, while building a framework for measuring the success of the 401(k) plan and strategies to effectively communicate with participants.
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Tapping into Your Natural Instincts: The Difference Between Stress & Team Success
Tapping into Your Natural Instincts: The Difference Between Stress & Team Success
Being able to recognize where and when stress is likely to occur is critical to building a strong team. Synergy takes the right mix of instinctive talents in appropriately defined roles, supported by well-informed leadership to create a successful work environment. Widely used personality assessments like Myers-Briggs and DISC don’t take into account the natural instincts that drive an individual to take action. Understanding those natural (or cognitive) instincts is the difference between stress and success. In this interactive session, 12 attendees are asked to participate in the Kolbe A assessments to demonstrate how to tap into your natural strengths. From the assessment results, attendees gain insight into what drives them to take specific actions, how their natural tendencies are likely to work for or against them, and what methods they can implement to reduce the potential for conflict and stress.
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Build Impactful Financial Dashboards Using Microsoft Power BI
Build Impactful Financial Dashboards Using Microsoft Power BI
As an FP&A analyst, rather than wrestling with data and queries, wouldn't you rather focus on serving your customer—the business—by providing smart analysis, insights and financial guidance? Meet Microsoft Power BI: the latest and greatest BI tool by Microsoft that's making waves. Power BI makes it super easy to clean up messy data; combine data from multiple sources (e.g., general ledger, personnel); define magical measures that you can use everywhere—say goodbye to filling your sheets with endless formulas; and create beautiful and impactful visualization that you can interact with and ask questions (no more walking out of the meetings with 20 action items). Discover all of this and more as we walk through building an actual financial dashboard using Power BI.
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When Real Time Payments Meet APIs: It's a New Era of Instant Gratification!
When Real Time Payments Meet APIs: It's a New Era of Instant Gratification!
Are you seeking to understand the emerging trends around real-time payments (RTP)? Do you want to know how corporates can use APIs to take advantage of the features and speed of this new payments and messaging network? Gain a comprehensive overview of banking APIs, from the basics to API integration (with one or more banks), then delve into API use cases leveraging faster payments and information reporting. Utilizing payment origination, receivables and liquidity solutions, the value proposition of using APIs in combination with RTP is demonstrated. Walk away with a robust understanding of banking APIs, real-time payments and the part they can play in making cash management agile and efficient. Interactive polling of the audience is incorporated throughout the session.
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AFP 2018 Payments Hub Challenge
AFP 2018 Payments Hub Challenge
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Fewer Cash Receipts Still Mean Big Retail Challenge
Fewer Cash Receipts Still Mean Big Retail Challenge
For many retailers, cash collections are dwindling—often representing as little as 20 percent of receipts. However, handling these payments causes 80 percent of treasury’s headaches, making finding the right cash logistics approach top-of-mind. In this session, CVS, Caleres and Celent discuss the latest trends in cash logistics, trends that are driving treasury efficiency, reducing risk and improving working capital management. Tactics discussed are game-changing, whether you’re a smaller retailer handling a low volume of cash and looking for a creative, low-tech solution, or a national organization looking for innovative tools tailored to specific cash handling needs. Gain a broad perspective on the latest approaches as Caleres shares experiences in evaluating and implementing a mail-in cash deposit solution that cut processing costs and increased efficiency, and CVS delves into a hybrid solution that takes a segmented, dynamic approach adapted to individual store requirements.
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Imagine a World with No Payment Exceptions. It's Here Today
Imagine a World with No Payment Exceptions. It's Here Today
Exceptions processing is the bane of any treasury professional’s existence. With more and more payment options available, exceptions are on the rise, creating a reconciliation nightmare for corporate treasury professionals. While greater payment choice is clearly a boon for business, with varying levels of information accompanying those payments, treasury is left to manually manage exceptions as part of a cumbersome and costly reconciliation process. In this panel discussion, treasury experts examine: new managed receivables, statement printing and presentment solutions that promise to completely eliminate exceptions through receivables matching technology and how these digital solutions match payments back to the original invoice, facilitating straight-through processing. Discover how this can further eliminate paper from the system, drive treasury efficiency, free up staff for more strategically important tasks, and create an environment that delivers clear insights into an organization’s cash position.
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The Final Countdown: Will U.S. Corporates Suffer or Prosper After Brexit?
The Final Countdown: Will U.S. Corporates Suffer or Prosper After Brexit?
The clock on Brexit negotiations is ticking. While some analysts are predicting an economic meltdown, others suggest it is merely a blip on the radar. But what are US Corporate Treasurers thinking? On the affirmative side, Client one (eg a Senior Treasurer from Nissan/Tesla/Toyota) will argue that all the panic is unjustified and that the US economy will turn its attention towards Europe and the growth opportunities in Asia while maintaining already strong economic and political ties with the UK. The USA also has a unique opportunity to shape a new international trade agreement with the UK.On the negative side, Client two (eg a senior treasurer from Walgreens Boots/Verizon) will argue that Britain’s exit will lead to slowed growth and trade, as well as reduce America’s ability to assert a US agenda on trade, monetary policy and more.
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Creating Resilient Treasury Risk Management in Volatile Times
Creating Resilient Treasury Risk Management in Volatile Times
At the intersection of risk management and real life sits resilience: the ability to assess unforeseen events and adjust strategy quickly, while achieving successful outcomes for the corporation. Join this moderated panel of treasury professionals as they discuss the challenges faced in implementing a treasury plan to prepare for unexpected risk in volatile times, e.g., FX exposure risks posed by the Brexit vote; climate change preparations, how they worked, or didn’t, during a natural disaster; managing risks as treasurer when commodity prices plunged unexpectedly.
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Keep Calm and Carry On: How Corporations are Preparing for European Money Market Fund Reform
Keep Calm and Carry On: How Corporations are Preparing for European Money Market Fund Reform
In the United States, investors had to deal with Money Market Fund reform in 2016 and now it’s Europe’s turn. With the January 2019 implementation deadline rapidly approaching, this expert panel explains the EU regulatory changes, the anticipated impact on offshore money market fund industry, and the strategies corporate investors are considering as a result. By understanding the scope of these reforms and how they differ from those implemented in the US, global investors can anticipate and be prepared for the changing liquidity investment landscape.
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Can Delivering Bad News Save Your Organization?
Bryce Hoffman &
Col. Steve Rotkoff
Can Delivering Bad News Save Your Organization?
Bryce Hoffman & Col. Steve Rotkoff
Rarely do people feel comfortable delivering bad news or challenging the assumptions of their superiors or even their peers. Doing so, however, is vital to ensure the long term health of your organization while also supporting the growth of your individual credibility. To combat this issue, military and intelligence agencies developed the concept of Red Teaming. This strategic planning process helps organizations and their leaders stress-test strategies, identify unseen threats and missed opportunities, combat groupthink and overcome complacency. Attendees are introduced to the psychology behind this game-changing methodology and walk away with tools and techniques for how their organizations can use Red Teaming to make better business decisions.
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Choosing a TMS That's Right for Your Treasury
Choosing a TMS That's Right for Your Treasury
Many companies today are still using bank portals and Excel spreadsheets to set their daily cash position and to do forecasting, limiting the value that treasury resources can provide. A TMS can automate many of these tasks, giving the treasury team more time to do value-added work that improves the bottom line. Learn how to develop your RFP and choose the right system for your company in this session. Topics for discussion include: building a business case for internal dissemination that will show ROI on the TMS implementation, exploring the different types of systems available, developing an RFP that clearly defines the need for a TMS, and getting the most out of your TMS demo sessions.
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Lead with Heart – Transform Your Business Through Personal Connection
Tom Gartland
Lead with Heart – Transform Your Business Through Personal Connection
If you want your company to thrive, you need to break one of the oldest unwritten rules of leadership – keeping a safe, professional distance between yourself and those you lead. This unwritten rule, pervasive, and quietly destructive, has the ability to destroy trust, collaboration and the very fabric of an organization. In this inspiring presentation, attendees learn an unconventional approach to business leadership, including advice on how to: open yourself up as a leader, clearly communicate your personal values, recognize potential in your employees, build employees’ trust in you and your organization, and, as a direct result, increase your organization’s bottom line.
Tom Gartland
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Blockchain for Reconciliation and Audit
Innovation Series
2:30-3 p.m.
Blockchain for Reconciliation and Audit
Innovation Series | 2:30-3 p.m.
The world is web-scaling. Peer-to-peer is exploding. Digital is nearly everything. And yet, payment processes remain heavily dependent on mainframes and manual intervention. Moving beyond the hype, proven blockchain technology can be leveraged to deliver frictionless reconciliation, create immutable audit trails for every transaction, and establish end-to-end, anti-tamper safeguards. While blockchain may seem new and confusing, this is a technology that has been battle-hardened in the real world for a decade already, so it is high time to put things in plain language for finance professionals. In this session, explore how to leverage investments in existing ledger platforms for intra- and inter-organizational payment flows, preserve operational privacy and secrecy, and scale to millions and billions of transactions—all while anchoring mathematical truth in widely witnessed evidence.
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2:30-3 p.m.
Implementing a Pilot Robotics Process Automation Project in Treasury
Innovation Series | 2:30-3 p.m.
Implementing a Pilot Robotics Process Automation Project in Treasury
Robotics Process Automation (RPA) is one of several evolving tools increasingly being named as the tool to automate routine, repetitive and time-consuming tasks. RPA promises to be a quick and nimble “digital assistant” that can accurately and reliably perform repetitive steps in a very short time, thereby freeing practitioners to spend more time on higher value priorities. Learn how to develop and implement an RPA project, including planning, scoping, evaluating software, hardware and implementation requirements, and determining the impact on functional work processes across finance and the organization, in this session.
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Financial Reporting and Employee Theft-You Think You Are Immune?
Financial Reporting and Employee Theft-You Think You Are Immune?
Whether it’s cybersecurity fraud, personal information compromised, or employees believing the easy way to financial freedom is through theft, we are all susceptible to having our assets taken—either in our company or individually. We’ve all heard the experts say it: “It’s not a matter of if, but when.” This session focuses on how financial fraud occurs, what a forensic accountant looks for when investigating fraud and best practices to prevent fraud from occurring.
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Seeing Beyond the Horizon
Seeing Beyond the Horizon
Treasurers of global companies often have limited visibility into their bank relationships outside of the U.S. primarily because Cash Management fee data has been viewed as simply a vendor management problem. In addition to cost control information, bank fee data also provides management with valuable insight into their own treasury operations worldwide, allowing assessment of what they are doing well, who is generating unnecessary expense, and whether their current treasury structure is cost effective. Hear how Uber worked with their banking and software partners and used the new 2018 AFP Global Service Codes to gain insight and visibility into their cash management banks spanning 57 countries.
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Evolving the FP&A Function Through Cloud Based Planning Software
Evolving the FP&A Function Through Cloud Based Planning Software
Follow the journey of the evaluation, selection and implementation of a cloud-based budgeting and planning tool at Editas: A 4-year-old gene editing company focused on cutting-edge science that is looking to develop transformative medicines for patients. Focus on the evolving needs of finance professionals as we take on broader roles within project management, including the changing dynamics within cloud-based planning and budgeting tools, the process redesign needed to help to support the implementation, and obstacles faced along the way.
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Disruption: Distraction or Opportunity? A look at Today's Liquidity Environment
Disruption: Distraction or Opportunity? A look at Today's Liquidity Environment
Join this discussion on the disruptive nature and impact of market and technological forces affecting cash and liquidity management markets today. Discussion focuses on balance sheet impacts and cash deployment strategies following global disruptions from regulatory and legislative changes; including corporate tax reform, Brexit, and EU Money Market Fund Reform. The panel shares experiences on how corporations have reformulated their approach using technology in order to monitor and make decisions about risk management, cash segmentation and product solutions in a changing environment.
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It's Not Just Finance: Product Investment Decisions in Corporate Transition
It's Not Just Finance: Product Investment Decisions
in Corporate Transition
In 2017 CSC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise merged service businesses to form DXC Technology. After the merger an executive investment review committee was established to decide product funding priorities and oversee the new company’s product management organization integration. To effectively identify and fund high value investment opportunities the committee needed to understand product performance, integration progress, and new investments’ potential value creation. However, providing the committee with detailed financial information was a challenge. Attendees learn how financial, operational, management and other information and performance measures can be integrated to enhance new product funding decisions.
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A Dose of OCIO: From Bayer to Covestro Without the Headache
A Dose of OCIO: From Bayer to Covestro Without the Headache
Prior to 2015, the German-based pharmaceutical giant, Bayer, operated multiple internal business divisions including Health Care, Crop Science and Material Science. Due to a renewed focus on health care and crop science, Bayer initiated a spinoff of the $12.3 billion-dollar Material Science division to form Covestro in September of 2015. This case study focuses on the activities surrounding the $500 million-dollar ERISA qualified defined benefit pension assets that became the responsibility of the new treasury team within Covestro. Dave Montgomery, CTP, describes the internal decision-making process behind hiring a 3(38)-discretionary investment manager, and his experience with the model over the course of the relationship. Andrew Wozniak, head of Fiduciary Solutions within BNY Mellon, discusses the transition through the lens of governance, the regulatory environment, asset allocation (de-risking), the impact of funded status and active/passive management options.
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Why the Certified Treasury Professional Credential?
Why the Certified Treasury Professional Credential?
AFP’s Certified Treasury Professional certification signifies your mastery of a rigorous body of treasury, cash and risk management knowledge and is viewed by employers as a best practice for finance departments. Hear practitioners discuss why they chose to earn the CTP, how they prepared for the exam and some benefits of holding the credential. Employers will discuss why they encourage their staffs to pursue the designation.
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Practical Neuroscience: How to Get More People to Agree with You
Practical Neuroscience: How to Get More People to Agree with You
Are you presenting your ideas and proposals in the most persuasive way? Discover three powerful tools to increase your influence and success, based on neuroscience and proven communication skills in this interactive session. First, in “Understanding the Persuasion Cycle,” we uncover the steps people’s brains go through before they can say “yes,” and explore the keys to knowing where they are and how to move them along this process. Next, “Read Their Bodies to Read Their Minds” teaches you how to identify body language to determine how people’s brains “think” and then present your information in a way they can see, hear and feel it. Finally, in “Turn Every Question into the Right One,” explore what you can do before and during any Q&A situation to effectively present your key messages while answering what people ask.
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Modernizing Retail: Eyeing the Cost of Payments
Modernizing Retail: Eyeing the Cost of Payments
Lowering the overall cost of payments processing requires taking a strategic approach to payments management. Attend this session to find out how retailers work with their payments provider to manage their total cost exposure. The panel helps make sense of an array of innovative acceptance tools such as dynamic debit routing, PINless capabilities, creative currency and cross-border solutions, direct-to-issuer partnerships, faster funding, as well as active monitoring of network fees and downgrades. While low margin merchants are usually the first to employ cost cutting measures, all companies can benefit from these practices.
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Ready, Set, Convert! A Diligent Path to E-Payments
Ready, Set, Convert! A Diligent Path to E-Payments
Northwestern University was at the forefront of changes in payment processes in higher education—a $2B shift to electronic payments. Why and how did they do it? Review, in-depth, the business case for this decision, the political challenges they faced, the RFP decision and implementation experience, the university’s quantitative achievements after X years (including progress made toward reducing paper, checks, and fraud), and future enhancements in the works. More than a case study, this session covers the hard-hitting and candid challenges and successes applicable to any industry.
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Generation Healthcare: Payment Innovation in the Digital Age
Generation Healthcare: Payment Innovation in the Digital Age
While it is the parents, grandparents, and even great grandparents of Millennials who are the great utilizers of healthcare, it is the digital natives themselves who are forcing payments innovation within the industry. Tools like artificial intelligence are being developed to gather demographic information to drive payment methods to meet generational preferences and to manage the changing expectations of a generation that judges healthcare quality in part by the seamless delivery of their payment processes. This session explores the drivers of the payment collection systems of tomorrow being built and implemented in healthcare today.
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Real Time Payments, The Early Adopters View
Real Time Payments, The Early Adopters View
The first live users of real-time payment discuss their experiences using the first truly real-time payment (RTP) and settlement system to launch in the U.S. Panelists focus on the value they found by being early adopters of RTP, key learnings and the use cases they are enabling and looking forward to using. Insights into the importance of RTP to their organizations, how this new and innovative payments platform will grow and expand and provide a practical perspective on the operational and business benefits of RTP are also discussed.
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Riding the Tide of Change
Riding the Tide of Change
The landscape for corporate balance sheet investors and issuers is dramatically different today than it has been in recent memory. With tax reform a reality, global treasury personnel are looking for best practices around product usage, global balance sheet structure, efficiency and impact mitigation. With an eye towards issuance and market activity, this discussion looks at optimal capital structures, available investment solutions, and opportunities within investment grade credit. An expert panel highlights the ways several multi-national companies are riding the tide of change, making these market disruptions work to their advantage.
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Challenges with Acquisitions/Carveouts: Best Practices and Advice
Challenges with Acquisitions/Carveouts: Best Practices and Advice
No two acquisitions or carveouts are the same. Each brings with it its own complexities—complexities every treasury department is challenged to prepare for. There is a lot to prepare for in a limited amount of time, so preparation at pre-close of the transaction and having a clearly defined path post-close is critical to the success of these deals. This panel discussion includes professionals who have all worked on acquisitions during their career, talking about the challenges they faced and the lessons they learned. This discussion addresses: Liquidity Management –managing cash on Day One; Risk Management – looking at the acquired company’s exposures and how to mitigate; Operational Cash Management –controls on all global bank accounts are confirmed, as well as transitioning access to banking systems, and authority over all accounts.
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Can a Bot do Your Rolling Cash Forecast?
Can a Bot do Your Rolling Cash Forecast?
Bots have the potential to play a vital role in improving cash flow forecasting. But how efficient are bots? Will they bring more negatives than positives to treasury functions? Will the data be more accurate? Attend this session for an in-depth discussion of these questions, and explore how new technologies can improve the forecasting process.
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Negotiating Debt Agreements
Negotiating Debt Agreements
Negotiating debt agreements, the primary skill of the treasury professional is multi-faceted and requires a clear understanding of the objectives of companies of various investment grades, and determining if or what outside resources, can be helpful in negotiating. This expert panel clarifies the process, demonstrating how to use a deal document to track progress and compare against existing agreements; investigate different types of default risks and how to write covenants that reduce those risks through appropriate working, defined terms, knowledge, notice, grace periods and other deal terms. This session also looks at post-closing negotiations and how to best remedy the consequences of a default.
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Best Practice FX Hedging: Understanding Earnings-at-Risk
Best Practice FX Hedging: Understanding Earnings-at-Risk
Developing a hedging program starts with understanding FX exposures and determining risk management goals. If minimizing earnings volatility is a priority and multiple currencies impact earnings, Earnings at risk (EaR) is considered best practice. However, many companies do not use this approach due to its perceived complexity. Discover the fundamental elements necessary to create a successful hedging program, and see its application in a case study demonstrating accessibility and feasibility of EaR. Attendees are walked through a review of the principles of value at risk (VaR) and corporate applications and asked to make observations about risk and hedging strategy for a sample portfolio. VaR is then applied to the portfolio. After explaining the analysis, attendees are engaged in a discussion of whether their perceptions of hedging strategies have changed. A corporate speaker shares their experience using VaR, discussing how their company’s management approached cost/benefit and challenges around educating key stakeholders.
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Achieving Treasury Centralization Goals with Virtual Account Management
Achieving Treasury Centralization Goals with Virtual Account Management
One of the biggest challenges treasury professionals face is managing a large number of physical bank accounts across a decentralized structure. This usually results in limited cash visibility and control, and difficulties when it to comes to information reporting and accounting. High bank fees, the challenge of reconciling accounts and the greater burden of managing more signatories all add to account management complexities. In this panel discussion, practitioners share their approach toward treasury centralization and how the use of innovative virtual account management tools can simplify account structures to reduce costs, leverage technology to move to an in-house bank or on-behalf-of payments and receipts, and automate reconciliations. Learn how, by segregating cash virtually rather than physically, you can achieve continuous real-time cash consolidation, reduce reliance on intraday credit and more efficiently manage transaction flows and liquidity.
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Taking Your Treasury Setup to the Next Level
Taking Your Treasury Setup to the Next Level
Technology, regulation, politics and the global business environment are factors that need to be considered when reviewing banking structures. As a result, treasurers need to continuously make decisions that allow them to adapt to the changing environment while also taking treasury to the next level. In this informative session, panelists discuss how they’re navigating these challenges, how they’ve adapted their organization to anticipate and manage change by building and executing a treasury roadmap, and implementing new technologies. Are you thinking about digitizing your treasury? Gain tips and ideas for rationalizing your account structure to create an optimal setup to take your treasury organization to the next level.
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Cash Management and Receivables in 2020: Transforming Treasury Forecasts with AI and Machine Learning
Cash Management and Receivables in 2020:
Transforming Treasury Forecasts with AI and Machine Learning
Driverless cars, automated manufacturing lines, and AI-enabled news-writers at the Washington Post enable a single purpose – to free up human talent for high-impact decision-making. However, credit and cash management teams continue to rely on labor-intensive processes while the outcomes remain sub-optimal - represented by inaccurate visibility of cash flows and high costs of servicing credit sales. Today, it is impossible for decision makers and analysts to consume the ever-growing business datasets to improve future actions – forcing a reliance on static, inaccurate methods of forecasting or intuition. In this session, speakers share experiences and insights gained from working with data-scientists and machine learning to enable accurate cash forecasts and visibility into credit risk.
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The Top 10 Forecasting Mistakes - And How To Avoid Them
The Top 10 Forecasting Mistakes - And How To Avoid Them
Whether your organization uses forecasting to supplement the annual budgeting process or intends to use it as a complete substitute, the way you forecast matters—most companies get it wrong. This session examines the top 10 forecasting mistakes and shows you how to quickly correct those errors to create an effective forecasting process. Learn about how these techniques have been implemented at ArcBest and how they embedded FP&A in the front lines to directly support real-time decision-making and profitable growth, and examine how they created an effective cost conscious culture.
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How to Successfully Incorporate Robotics into Your Treasury
How to Successfully Incorporate Robotics into Your Treasury
Robotics process automation (RPA) sounds great in theory, but as much as 50 percent of initial RPA projects fail. So, where do you begin and how do you ensure your project is successful? The treasury department of American Express successfully incorporated robotics into their processes. American Express’ journey has always been an employee productivity exercise, giving the team an endless array of possibilities across the business. Attend this session to hear about their journey over the past year, what they learned and key considerations when planning your project including: the importance of planning ahead and establishing a Center of Excellence (COE) across the business, and creating baseline criteria and running a pilot quickly.
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Managing Fiduciary Risk with Retirement Plan Innovation
Managing Fiduciary Risk with Retirement Plan Innovation
DC plan sponsors are increasingly looking for ways to mitigate the fiduciary and litigation risks associated with managing a DC plan. In addition plan participants and sponsors alike are concerned with reducing financial stress and ensuring retirement goals are achievable. To address these objectives and others over the last decade many plan sponsors have changed their relationship with their investment advisor to what the industry refers to as a “delegated” or “OCIO” or “3(38)” model which really means delegating investment authority to a third party to act as 3(38) investment fiduciary. This session highlights some of the recent DC plan trends, explain how a delegated investment model works and what the primary benefits are for both plan sponsors and participants.
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RegTech in Review
RegTech in Review
RegTech, or Regulatory Technology, is technology that has been developed to tackle the regulatory problems financial institutions and services may face. Big data, data visualization and blockchain are a few of these innovative technologies. Their features make them agile and dynamic and could aid your business’ compliance with regulations. Join this session for an exploration of how this technology is being used, where in your business RegTech would be most effective. Walk through a client, or compliance, lifecycle looking at key areas including sanctions screening, fraud and money laundering. Get an in-depth view of what Chainalysis does, why it was created and how Barclays is using it to understand the clients’ behavior.
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The Commercial Paper Market from the Buyer and Issuer Point of View
The Commercial Paper Market from the Buyer and Issuer Point of View
For many corporate treasury investors, the attractiveness and utility of commercial paper (CP) has increased over the years due to its cost-effectiveness, accessible supply, regulatory flexibility, liquidity and overall short maturity range. These factors, along with potential tax incentives, have not only piqued interest in CP, they’ve added to the already complicated cash investment landscape facing corporate treasury investors. Join panelists from Carnegie Mellon University, Toyota Financial Services and Applied Materials as they share their experiences evaluating the CP market and implementing a CP program at their organization. Panelists also review the types of firms issuing and purchasing CP, and discuss the roles of dealers and investment managers.
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Public vs. Private Blockchains: The Race to Own the Future of Payments
Public vs. Private Blockchains: The Race to Own the Future of Payments
Since 2008, when blockchain burst on the scene with the introduction of bitcoin, the financial sector has explored how the technology could benefit payments, clearing and settlement. Distributed ledger technology (DLT) promises greater efficiency, transparency and resiliency to treasury operations triggering debates on whether public or private blockchain will deliver the most value. Draw your own conclusion when you join this panel discussion of representatives from both sides of the issue. Learn more about the pros and cons of public versus private blockchain, and how banks are innovating and helping bridge the gap between the two.
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The Future of Payments: A Corporate Perspective
The Future of Payments: A Corporate Perspective
It is an exciting time in the financial industry: New payments networks, solutions and tools introduced in the past few years have launched a revolution in the way payments are made and received, initiating tremendous change for businesses, consumers and financial institutions in the U.S. and across the globe. These changes have already begun to impact and transform the way businesses operate, and are poised to influence offerings, processes and profit margins into the future. Treasury and financial professionals provide their insights into and observations on their current experiences with new payments innovations, such as The Clearing House’s Real-Time Payments, Zelle® and Same Day ACH; what the changes mean for their organizations; and expectations for impacts in the next five to ten years. Key findings from a recent industry survey on the future of payments is also shared and used as a catalyst for the discussion.
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Taking Advantage of New Technologies in Payments Strategy
Taking Advantage of New Technologies in Payments Strategy
In recent years the changing payments landscape has given rise to phrases like real-time payments, distributed ledgers, and blockchain, bringing expectations of reduced fraud, lower transaction costs, increased speed, and a proliferation of transactional data. But what does this all mean for those in treasury, how can you differentiate between the growing number of strategies, and how can you take advantage of these new trends? This unique panel discussion tackles the rapidly changing landscape of payments and provides guidance on the key questions organizations should be asking themselves as they look to take advantage of new payment capabilities.
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LIBOR: The World’s Biggest Number in Transition
LIBOR: The World’s Biggest Number in Transition
With LIBOR going away, corporate finance professionals need to start thinking about their options for alternative rates. Representatives from several industry organizations discuss the challenges and scope of this transition. Key to understanding this are the securities impacted both directly and indirectly, how best to prepare for the change, and how to work this into new and existing agreements. Discussion includes the replacement for LIBOR in the US, and what other countries are doing to replace LIBOR. Panelists discuss the timeline leading up to 2021 and what you need to do now.
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Get Where You Want to Go and Keep Going: Managing Your Career Journey
Get Where You Want to Go and Keep Going: Managing Your Career Journey
Career advancement and development are critical components on the path toward achieving personal and professional satisfaction. Both must be relentlessly pursued in parallel tracks to realize success while navigating the inevitable ups and downs of a career journey. Learn from the practices that three successful professionals utilized to set and achieved their career goals, while adapting to new roles and responsibilities along the way. Acquire techniques that support successful career progression, while capitalizing on opportunities and utilizing available tools to overcome challenges and achieve goals.
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Cybersecurity: The Critical Role of Your Human Firewall
Cybersecurity: The Critical Role of Your Human Firewall
Globally, cyberattacks through business email are one of the largest threats to corporates, accounting for more than $5 billion dollars in losses. Combatting this rampant fraud requires a combination of cybersecurity technology and vigilant human capital. In this panel discussion, Anadarko Petroleum and Rotary International share best practices in educating their human firewall to mitigate risk; an FBI agent presents a law enforcement perspective on the need for ongoing education to aggressively combat threats; practitioners demonstrate fraud scenarios, and highlight procedures and processes for combatting fraud.
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The State of Fortress America
Ron Insana
The State of Fortress America
For several years, Ron Insana has been touting the rise of “Fortress America” amidst myriad voices heralding the emergence of the Asian Century. The Fortress, however, appears to have some cracks, as shifts in U.S. foreign, fiscal, and regulatory policies are making it less impregnable than ever before. What happens if the pillars of Fortress America—energy independence, manufacturing, technological innovation, demographic and political stability—begin to weaken? Ron explores how shifting domestic and global political environments could strain the economy, disrupt certain industries, and affect financial markets in the relatively near future.
Ron Insana
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Transformational Change: from Principles to Practice
Transformational Change: from Principles to Practice
Given the complexity, organizational scope and impact, and strategic importance of business and finance transformation initiatives, organizations clearly recognize that a comprehensive change management framework is essential for success. Introducing change, sustaining change, tackling resistance and challenges proactively, providing dedicated resources, crafting and implementing a robust communication strategy, and executing core training and education activities are all critical elements of a well-designed change management framework. Learn how organizations such as General Dynamics, CF Industries, Boston Consulting Group, Samsonite, and numerous others have leveraged a foundational best practice based change management framework to deliver transformational change initiatives and produce outstanding results.
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Everyday Blockchain: What Corporate Treasury Learned from Bitcoin
Everyday Blockchain: What Corporate Treasury Learned from Bitcoin
Blockchain technology is here to stay and treasury practitioners will sooner or later have to be conversant in it. Explore the key concepts that make bitcoin such a great invention in this two-part session. In the first half, all the key concepts that make up the blockchain are explained in very simple language and intuitive terms. In the second half, this discussion examines how the modern corporation can take advantage of these great technologies and dives further into their novel features, challenges and duration of implementation.
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Repositioning for Rising Rates
Repositioning for Rising Rates
It’s no secret: Interest rates are rising due to actions taken by the Federal Reserve. While this could mean higher yields, it may also generate unrealized losses on fixed income investments. Shorter duration investments typically help preserve principal, but what investment strategies, security types and credit quality ratings work best in a rising rate environment? Alternatively, how do you maintain flexibility to position a portfolio should the Fed change course, and rates do not rise? The CIO of a major fixed income asset manager, a corporate treasury practitioner, and a corporate cash investment consultant share their perspectives based on many years of investment experience under different market environments.
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Forecasting During Rapid Growth
Forecasting During Rapid Growth
Has your organization doubled, tripled, or quadrupled in size in the last few years? Have you entered a foreign country for the first time, started a new line of business, or otherwise transformed the way you do business? If so, standard forecasting processes won’t be successful. In this session, hear a first-hand account of lessons learned and best practices developed during periods of rapid growth.
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Leveraging Blockchain to Achieve a More Strategic Role
Leveraging Blockchain to Achieve a More Strategic Role
In virtually every organization, treasury and accounting work hand-in-hand. The implementation of blockchain platforms across industry lines will have disruptive effects on numerous components of both their functions. Cut through the buzz and hype surrounding blockchain in this session to drill down and explore the specific ways blockchain can, and should be, utilized to improve efficiency, reduce internal friction and allow treasury professionals to obtain a more strategic role in the decision-making process.
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Free up Cash: Manage Working Capital
Free up Cash: Manage Working Capital
What is your working capital saying about your business performance? In a world driven by short-term bottom line expectations, cash and working capital sometimes take a backseat when in reality, companies should have an obsessive focus on working capital optimization. Active working capital management not only drives cash flows but also creates a nimble, high-performing organization. Follow ITT’s story of how they embarked on a company-wide working capital journey, and learn how to manage the cash conversion cycle to free up cash for growth investments, reduce borrowing costs, strengthen the balance sheet, and enhance operational performance.
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Managing Pension Risk and Creating Shareholder Value in Today's Economic Environment
Managing Pension Risk and Creating Shareholder Value in Today's Economic Environment
New tax legislation, strong equity performance and the potential for higher interest rates are all factors driving plan sponsors to address pension risk while creating shareholder value. Attend this session to hear how senior management can evaluate pension risk management against other corporate priorities and discuss strategies adopted by several companies that have transferred pension obligations to insurers, ultimately securing the benefits of hundreds of thousands of retirees.
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Driving Strategic Alignment from the Front Lines to the Board Room
Driving Strategic Alignment from the Front Lines to the Board Room
Creating and implementing a Strategic Plan typically falls under the CFO of an organization and too often the Plan does not leave “the shelf” after creation. Equip yourself with best practices on how to take your company’s strategic plan and translate it into strategy maps and Scorecards, align the divisions, and establish multiple layers of accountability. Learn the steps required to set and track key performance indicators, achieve high levels of customer satisfaction, while empowering your organizational resources to meet and exceed strategy goals.
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Treasury & Tax: How to Achieve BEPS & Transfer Pricing Compliance?
Treasury & Tax: How to Achieve BEPS & Transfer Pricing Compliance?
The OECD / G20 - BEPS regulation deals with policies that exploit disparities in tax rules that artificially shift profits to low or no-tax locations. Non-compliance causes serious penalties, and thus, multinational companies must adapt and streamline their intercompany financing activities. BEPS requires companies to price their intercompany finance transactions ‘at arm’s length’. To prove that these transactions are consistently priced, Corporate Treasurers and Tax Directors need to clarify their rationale for structuring their intercompany finance transactions by: 1. Analyzing subsidiary’s balance sheet and P&L statement 2. Determining stand-alone subsidiary credit rating 3. Applying qualitative and/or group support adjustments 4. Looking up credit spread to set arm’s length price Learn how to implement a consistent approach to determine a fair and competitive interest rate for transactions such as intercompany loans, credit facilities, guarantees, cash pooling and leases.
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GDPR Implications for U.S. Companies
GDPR Implications for U.S. Companies
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an EU regulation intended to protect personal data such as banking and payment information along with home and email addresses. The regulation became effective May of this year and is much more than US PCI compliance. GDPR focuses on privacy as much as security. Most European based companies are already in compliance but many U.S. based companies still do not fully understand how or even if the regulation affects them. Given the globalization of business, even US based companies may need to comply with GDPR. Penalties for non-compliance are severe. Given all of the recent publicity about data privacy and security this is a topic that should be top of mind for all companies.
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ACH the Strategic Payment Option for Businesses
ACH the Strategic Payment Option for Businesses
A key success strategy of companies that grow and retain loyal customers is to provide greater value, speed and ease of payment, while maintaining vital security, surety and confidence. In this session, NACHA leadership reviews how the ACH Network is being used in new ways, and NACHA’s focus on driving innovation , removing friction and making the ACH and ACH payments easier to use. Gain a competitive edge by hearing first-hand about new and emerging capabilities to help businesses derive greater benefit from ACH payments, including what’s on the horizon for Same Day ACH. Take home practical ways your company can solve cash application challenges through request for payment, tools to reduce pain points and friction associated with ACH disbursements and ISO 20022 integration, and learn about technologies that help treasurers and payments practitioners improve efficiencies and fully leverage electronic payments and information.
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Electronic Receivables: Using Intelligent Automation to Optimize Payment Processing
Electronic Receivables: Using Intelligent Automation to Optimize Payment Processing
Cash management is becoming increasingly complex as accounts receivable teams deal with multiple data sources: invoices, bank statements, remittance advice, credit notes and a range of payment methods, including checks, ACH/EFT, wire transfers and credit cards. This challenge is accentuated by remittance details received in unstructured formats across paper, EDI, emails, web portals and scanned images. Such inconsistencies in payment types and remittance formats adds to an inherently manual, costly and error-prone cash application process. This session examines approaches to the challenge of cash application using Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Takeaway best practices for achieving straight-through processing, eliminating lockbox key-in fees, print and mail costs; to automate cash management processes.
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From Innovating to Driving Impact: How to Capitalize on the Fintech Boom and Transform Your Business
From Innovating to Driving Impact: How to Capitalize on the Fintech Boom and Transform Your Business
The emergence of digital disruption, artificial intelligence and FinTech is upon us. To drive impact in their business and stay ahead of competition within this environment, today’s finance professionals need to fully incorporate financial technologies, must be agile in their business, ambitious in their goals, and effective in managing their teams through change. In this case study, journey through the experience of Brixmor Property Group, a leading owner and operator of commercial real estate properties in the United States, that successfully capitalized on the FinTech boom by integrating automation into their corporate strategy, and transitioned their financial operations into a digital platform to effectively transact with their tenants.
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21st Century Treasury Mindset
21st Century Treasury Mindset
Distributed ledgers, mobile access to funds, real-time settlement, crypto-currencies are but a few looming realities that are headed our way at lightning speed forcing treasury leaders and practitioners to rethink deeply entrenched and antiquated mindsets of the 20th century. Learn how to think for tomorrow's world as new technology and new players fill up spaces that were previously the exclusive domain of highly regulated banks. Take away strategies for situating your C-Suite, treasury team, internal policies and mindset for a future that MUST be embraced.
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Investing in Your Treasury Career
Investing in Your Treasury Career
As a treasury professional, you spend your life safeguarding and investing your company’s money, but can the same be said for you and your treasury career? Discover how you can be your own career coach with the tools and skills learned in this session. Gain key insights from: the treasurer of a major private equity firm who discusses how she “invests” in her career through continued professional and personal development; the global treasury recruiter who has advised corporate treasury professionals on how to advance their treasury careers for decades; and a corporate treasury professional and veteran of the capital markets industry who learned to define his personal brand and professional legacy.
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Leveling the Playing Field in China
Leveling the Playing Field in China?
Following the joint announcement by the Peoples Bank of China, Fed and U.S. Treasury to launch a local U.S. clearing and trading hub for the Chinese RMB, China announced new milestones that will further open up their financial sectors. These developments will promote increased Chinese RMB utilization and improve liquidity and increase competitiveness for U.S. corporates doing business with China by enabling the same operational efficiencies and cost savings (2-5 percent) as global competitors. This session provides treasury practitioners with the necessary background and most current information needed to update their global strategies, thereby shining a light on the sometimes opaque rules for business with China. A panel of subject-matter experts—the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, U.S.-based Chinese and an international bank—identify opportunities and examine the processes and steps necessary to realize the new risk management advantages and cost savings created by a local time zone, U.S.-based RMB clearing and trading hub.
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Why Cash Recyclers? – A Walmart Case Study
Why Cash Recyclers? – A Walmart Case Study
Walmart rolled out cash recycler technology across 4,700 U.S. stores to become the largest user of cash recyclers in the world. Their operating model was completely redesigned, including hardware selection, alignment with banking and armored carrier partners and integrating software and reporting—and it continues to be enhanced. Walmart realized savings on its in-store labor by eliminating the manual counting of coin and currency in stores. Additional working capital benefits were realized by implementing a bank-owned model where the cash inside the recycler is owned by the banking partner. Cash deposit levels were reduced significantly as the model was rolled out, which generated bank fee savings. Walmart also transitioned to a centralized, algorithmic ordering of change for all stores, creating further efficiency and reducing total order levels. In this session get all the details and insights of this major transition, including how the model was rolled out, what challenges had to be overcome and how the model continues to be enhanced.
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Treasury Fraud: Locking Down Your Best Defense
Treasury Fraud: Locking Down Your Best Defense
The cybercrime landscape is constantly shifting, with criminals finding new and more sophisticated ways to gain access to your company’s information and funds. The most significant threat to today’s treasurers include the use of ransomware and an alarming increase in treasury fraud – from business email compromise to malicious insiders. To mitigate these risks the best defense is often a good offense. Attend this session for a focused discussion on the most recent threats to your treasury and the best practices you can adopt to keep fraud at bay. This expert panel of banking and corporate treasury professionals give you a comprehensive look at strategies for implementing a risk-based approach, effective technologies and the role insurance can play in preventing treasury fraud.
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How Corporate Tax Changes & FASB Accounting Standards Have Impacted Equipment Acquisition
How Corporate Tax Changes & FASB Accounting Standards Have Impacted Equipment Acquisition
The healthy economy, combined with the recent changes approved to corporate taxes, means that investments in various type of equipment are expected to grow. In the transportation industry, companies with private fleets and dedicated carriers are ordering trucks at an increased pace. Sales of Class-8 heavy-duty trucks increased 59 percent to 296,440 vehicles in 2017, according to ACT Research. Partially driving these investments will be recent changes to the tax infrastructure, where the corporate tax rate has been cut to 21% with immediate write-off for equipment. That being said, finance professionals within these organizations involved in equipment acquisition, specifically for equipment that is advantageous to lease like tractor-trailers, must be cognizant of the new tax cuts and jobs act. The way the financial experts decide to procure this equipment can have a significant impact to their company’s overall business, bottom line and financial performance.
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Should You Care about How Banks and Ratings Agencies Rate You?
Should You Care about How Banks and Ratings Agencies Rate You?
Many Fortune 1000 companies receive an external rating from one or more nationally recognized statistical rating organizations, commonly known as credit rating agencies. In this session, corporate practitioners learn about the different roles of the national credit rating agencies versus the internal ratings assigned by their banks, as well as the differences in the methodologies each group uses to assign those ratings. Panelists analyze the impact of the ratings on public capital markets, the bank’s internal profitability assessment, and the company’s banking relationships. Practitioners are then able to use this understanding to more effectively manage bank relationships as well as to understand the key components to consider when allocating business to banks.
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Unconcious Bias: The Silent Talent Pipeline Killer
Unconcious Bias: The Silent Talent Pipeline Killer
Workplace diversity is more than a checkbox for compliant human resource practices; it’s also an untapped talent management strategy critical to company performance. This inclusive view of talent leads to greater innovation, creates a competitive advantage for companies, and brings a wealth of perspectives to the table that may otherwise be overlooked. Achieving an ideal level of talent development and inclusiveness depends on hiring managers intentionally shifting their mindset to overcome unconscious bias, the social stereotypes we subconsciously form. This session explores what unconscious bias looks like, the approaches to challenging these assumptions within your organization and examines the risks associated with not ensuring an inclusive workforce. Takeaway specific actions for implementing a diversity-driven talent strategy across the enterprise.
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Unclaimed Property & How the Treasury Department Can Reduce Your Exposure
Unclaimed Property & How the Treasury
Department Can Reduce Your Exposure
Most treasury departments are already aware of unclaimed property and how it arises—usually outside of their department. However, most of the time, the treasury department holds the key to unlocking a treasure trove of information in an unclaimed property audit, VDA or internal review. Bank relationships, tracking of open and closed accounts and access to bank documentation are all key components of an effective unclaimed property mitigation strategy. This session addresses the problem of unclaimed property issues that have arisen in the treasury department and how you can best be ready to assist your organization and reduce the company’s unclaimed property exposure.
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Has Basel III Killed the Notional Pool?
Has Basel III Killed the Notional Pool?
Basel III imposes stricter requirements on offsetting balances, which impacts notional pooling.Notional pooling eliminates intercompany loans that physical cash concentration creates, maximizes interest income, and increases cash efficiency by providing corporates with a better understanding of their financial position. Examine the impact of Basel III on notional polling and explore key considerations and questions that need to be asked when evaluating whether a notional pool is a right fit, as well as when pursuing a liquidity strategy. Groupon discusses the management of internal partners and banking providers, and how they went live with an optimal notional pooling structure.
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Integrating Treasury & FP&A
Integrating Treasury & FP&A
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals was in the midst of significant organizational changes including acquisitions, new internal financing processes, and major investments to launch products. In this rapidly changing environment, they needed more advanced balance sheet modeling, planning, and cash forecasting capabilities in addition to tight collaboration and integration between treasury and FP&A. Learn how Sunovion met this challenge head on while significantly improving cash forecasting accuracy, deploying a best practice based treasury and FP&A operating model, and leveraging a foundation for continuous improvement.
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A Modern Approach to Short - to Intermediate - Term Investing
A Modern Approach to Short - to Intermediate - Term Investing
You can create better risk-adjusted return outcomes by strategically investing cash assets using a liquidity/core portfolio bifurcation approach. In fact, one surprising result of using this approach is that cash management can be more easily managed at the asset class allocation level, as opposed to the typical security selection focus that adds less value. Join this comprehensive session focused on the core portfolio—defined as a 1-5-year maturity fixed income portfolio of supplementary assets that are unlikely to be required to meet obligations over the operating cycle.
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Low Tech Fraud / High Tech Fraud: Embezzlement, Mobile Banking Fraud, and Holder in Due Course
Low Tech Fraud / High Tech Fraud: Embezzlement, Mobile Banking Fraud, and Holder in Due Course
With management focused on BEC scams and other “high tech” fraud, organizations forget that major fraud losses are created by the “low tech” schemes of embezzlement and check fraud. Attend this session to identify numerous embezzlement patterns which differ by industry and company size, and which are often executed via check fraud. Check fraud has become more complicated due to “high tech” mobile banking fraud and mRDC. Discover how Holder In Due Course and Check 21 Rules intertwine, allowing organizations to recoup mRDC losses. Understand the strategy that fraudsters use to evade Payee Positive Pay, and how to outwit them. Hear examples of real-life fraud situations, what went wrong, and how specific practices can prevent these crimes and protect your organization.
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ISO 20022 in Real Life at a Real Corporate
ISO 20022 in Real Life at a Real Corporate
ISO 20022 is in production in the real world. Where does it stand in relation to U.S. payment systems, what are the ACH and wire systems doing, and what effect is it having on corporate customers? Walk through the real-life implementation of ISO 20022 in Nordson U.S. Find out how they are sending requests for payments to their banks for both ACH and wire payments and how they partnered with PNC on the implementation. What does this new paradigm mean to PNC? Discover what drove Nordson to this solution in the U.S., how it has helped them streamline their payments practices and the impact it’s had on their reporting systems.
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Consumer Billing and Payments: KPIs and Best Practices to Keep up with Digital Evolution
Consumer Billing and Payments: KPIs and Best Practices to Keep up with Digital Evolution
As the financial environment has changed, so too have the tools needed to combat fraud and report on relevant metrics. A roadmap for navigating this changing landscape is laid out with case studies and best practices for cost-optimization, insider tips on how to align KPIs with the innovations being made in the payment space and weapons to combat fraud. This panel of seasoned payment professionals discuss the evolution of consumer payments - from checks to digital wallets and how market changes such as digitization, electronic billing and cybercrime influence payment behavior.
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Strategies to Advance the U.S. Payment Safety, Resiliency and Security
Strategies to Advance the U.S. Payment Safety, Resiliency and Security
Maintaining strong payments security practices is a continuously moving target given the ever-evolving payments ecosystem and dynamic nature of the threat environment. The commitment to improve security is a priority throughout the payments industry as evidenced by ongoing collaboration across these issues. This session covers work efforts to support the payment industry, such as broad-reaching intelligence reports and payments fraud trends. Hear from the Federal Reserve about a number of initiatives and collaborative efforts designed to tackle tough issues such as data protection, payment identity management and cybersecurity.
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What's in Your Global Wallet - CNAV, LVNAV or FNAV Money Funds?
What's in Your Global Wallet - CNAV, LVNAV or FNAV Money Funds?
Similar to money market fund reform in the US, the new EMEA regulations will impact every UCITS liquidity vehicle offered to global cash managers, and it's important for practitioners to understand the implications and potentially make investment decisions ahead of the effect date of January 21, 2019. After navigating money market reform in the US, it's time to turn your attention to Europe. In this session learn about the new EMEA money market fund regulations, how the rules will impact treasury and finance, current cash management investments and what options will be available after the reform goes into effect in January 2019.
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Add Commodity Price Risk Hedging to Your Risk Management Tool Kit
Add Commodity Price Risk Hedging to Your Risk Management Tool Kit
Commodity price risk management has historically been a challenge due to accounting rules that were often too complex or onerous. However, new standards from FASB have simplified the process, making it the ideal time to build protocols for hedging commodity price risk into your risk management program. Help your company meet its economic targets by avoiding commodity price fluctuations. During this session, speakers provide an overview of commodity risk, explain the most commonly used hedging methods and examine a real-world scenario that demonstrates these principles.
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Global Harmonization of Supply Chain for McDonald's System
Global Harmonization of Supply Chain for McDonald's System
Harmonization between financial and physical supply chain of multinational corporations has always been challenging and continues to be a critical and ubiquitous aspect of supply chain integration. Improved supply chain integration requires an understanding of the flow of physical and financial resources across the supply chain network. Join this session for an inside view of McDonald's successful integration of their supply chain system comprising key food suppliers, logistics and distribution partners, and franchisees. Gain an in-depth perspective on the integration process from OSI Group, food supplier and HAVI Group, global logistics and distribution supplier. Also addressed, is the importance of the banks role in enabling suppliers to improve supply chain integration, harmonization and performance by optimizing cash management and working capital solutions.
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Fintech’s Biggest Impacts Courtesy of Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies & AI
Dan Carmody &
Bill Carmody
Fintech’s Biggest Impacts Courtesy of Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies & AI
While a rising technological tide may lift all finance boats, a lack of understanding of today’s technology implications could drown your organization. To be successful, treasury and finance professionals must understand and navigate a host of disruptive Fintech that will impact their industries – especially technologies based on blockchain and artificial intelligence. In this enlightening session, attendees hear unique perspectives that discuss the big-picture technological tides that are disrupting the world of finance, how to adapt current operations to thrive in a technologically disruptive environment, and how cryptocurrencies, blockchains, APIs, real-time payments and reporting are changing the finance industry.
Dan Carmody & Bill Carmody
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Intercompany Payables Efficiencies: Time for a Strategic Relook
Intercompany Payables Efficiencies: Time for a Strategic Relook
Significant efficiency benefits can be gained for large, diverse organizations by taking a strategic relook at intercompany payment flows. General Electric (GE) determined that consolidation of intercompany payments with a global provider could help them meet several objectives—namely, simplified reconciliation, netting (including FX), lower core costs, higher systemic integration and better visibility. As a result, GE adopted cutting edge tools such as Virtual Accounts and more efficient use of cash through a simpler funding structure for intercompany activity. In this informative session, GE shares insights regarding its multi-stage strategic initiative to streamline its banking infrastructure, including the movement of money between entities and how the company addressed the challenges that came up, such as multiple process hops for movement of money, reconciliation on both sides of money movement, high costs and low visibility for the payments lifecycle and complex funding structures across regions and partners.
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Overcoming Pitfalls in Cross Border Payments
Overcoming Pitfalls in Cross Border Payments
Transferring money abroad is inherently challenging and riddled with obstacles. Gain solutions for overcoming common pitfalls in cross-border payments using examples from the panel, including: identification of hidden costs of international payments and how to control them, compliance requirements and concerns, advantages of sending transfers in hard currency versus local currency, the use of cryptocurrencies, and selections of international payment providers.
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Attendance to the AFP Executive Institute is limited to corporate practitioners with the title of treasurer, chief financial officer, vice president of finance, assistant treasurer or controller.
Attendance to the AFP Executive Institute is limited to corporate practitioners with the title of treasurer, chief financial officer, vice president of finance, assistant treasurer or controller.
Attendance to the AFP Executive Institute is limited to corporate practitioners with the title of treasurer, chief financial officer, vice president of finance, assistant treasurer or controller.
Attendance to the AFP Executive Institute is limited to corporate practitioners with the title of treasurer, chief financial officer, vice president of finance, assistant treasurer or controller.
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The Business Payments Directory Association membership, including AFP members, continues to actively engage the industry to gain a deep understanding of the challenges faced by corporations and payment work streams. Buyers continue to look for ways to reduce time and costs associated with onboarding suppliers and suppliers want to reduce exceptions associated with incorrect or missing remittance information. BPDA, now an emancipated group of NACHA, has partnered with Discover Financial Services to create a directory service system enabling corporate providers to streamline processes and increase the use of electronic payment and remittance. The proof of concept blockchain based system ensures safety and accuracy of information, and along with open APIs, allows corporate service providers to leverage existing gateways. Panelists provide an overview of the system and benefits as well as plans for 2019.
B2B Payments Directory Comes to Market
B2B Payments Directory Comes to Market
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For today’s finance teams to be strategic and deliver the competitive advantages businesses expect, they must have a holistic view of the organization and a firm grasp of the business models that drive performance. But gathering, housing, and accessing the data needed to be successful remains a challenge for finance professionals. The ability to integrate disparate data, use predictive analysis to model future performance and use that same, real-time data for stakeholders to consume and make decisions is the ultimate goal. This session explores how modern FP&A teams are achieving this planning trifecta and enabling faster, smarter decision making in their organizations.
Achieving the Planning Trifecta: Integrate, Model, Consume
Achieving the Planning Trifecta: Integrate, Model, Consume
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The verdict is in and at the end of 2021, LIBOR may no longer be reported. While Wall Street may not be ready now, Main Street is preparing for the coming disruption. This session helps attendees understand how best to amend or add language into your legal agreements to support capital markets activity to get your organization ahead of this change. A panel of experts shares their insights and experiences on action at the Fed and the ARRC committee, while discussing recent developments and the impact of this historic change.
The Impending Exit of LIBOR: What Corporates Need to Know
The Impending Exit of LIBOR: What Corporates Need to Know