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Reducing Payment Fees Isn’t Just a Fad
In 2017, U.S. merchants paid $7 billion in credit card processing fees with many overpaying for one of three reasons: they feel helpless in controlling their processing costs due to a lack of internal expertise, they don’t have enough time or resources, or just don’t think it will make enough of a difference to justify their time. In this session panelists recount their experiences in managing credit and debit card payments and how they significantly reduced their merchant processing fees to improve the bottomline.
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10-11 a.m.
Wednesday, October 23
Exhibit Hall Closing Reception
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Tuesday Keynote featuring Fareed Zakaria
3:15-4:30 p.m.
1:45-3 p.m.
10:30-11:45 a.m.
Tuesday, October 22
3:45-5 p.m.
2-3 p.m.
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MindShift Keynote featuring Rana el Kaliouby, PhD
Monday, October 21
AFP 2019 Kick-Off Party at Jillian's Lucky Strike & Loretta's Last Call
7:30-9:30 p.m.
Exhibit Hall Opening Reception
6-7:30 p.m.
Sunday Keynote featuring Robin Roberts
4:30-6 p.m.
Sunday, October 20
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A Better Cash Receivables Solution: How Retailers Can Harness Vital Analytics
Managing cash receivables has always presented challenges for retailers as they cobble together relationships with multiple banks and couriers to cover their footprint. Besides lacking the efficiency of a national solution, this decentralized approach fails to provide visibility into critical in-store data around receivables that could provide invaluable analytics insights. Hear the latest trends in cash receivables and best practices for working with a banking partner to improve back-office processes to gain efficiencies in cash operations and reconciliation.
Global Payment Integration: Success Stories in Optimization
As more and more corporates do business around the world, treasury professionals must be keenly aware of the many payment options, innovations and regulatory changes that are impacting their operations. This panel of experts examines how recent regulatory changes, payment options and innovations are impacting business and how practitioners are responding. Walk away with actionable recommendations no treasury professional gleaned from proven best practices.
Does CFAR Help Me C-Clearly?
Within the corporate treasury group Risk management is often misunderstood or seen as too daunting to tackle because they’re unaware of the available risk measurement tools. Learn about how risk tools such as CFAR can be implemented, managed and monitored relatively inexpensively to allow the treasury department to see risk differently, and identify and manage risk in a volatile and changing market.
Measuring Success in Project Management: Pain Points You Need to Know and Avoid
The key to a successful project management lies in careful planning to prevent cost overruns, manage project changes, control resources and paying attention to schedule. This session provides a guide for creating a comprehensive requirements list for a project scope, addresses the pitfalls of an incomplete list of requirements, and reviews best practices for avoiding typical costly errors in project management. Review examples of actual projects in treasury and finance that demonstrate the basic concepts of project management, defines the appropriate expected outcomes once a project is complete, and to measuring success from business case to “go-live.”
Elevating the Role of Treasury Within Your Organization
The treasurer’s role is critical from a day-to-day strategic and tactical level, but how does the rest of the organization perceive the value that treasury brings to the table? How can you elevate the role that treasury plays within your organization? Using real-world examples, Amazon highlights the role their treasury team plays to support the organization’s global business operations, the actions taken to ensure treasury has a consultative role during the company’s planning stages and how they work to include core banking partners as an extension of the treasury team.
Future of Treasury: The Uncut Version
The fast-developing world of artificial intelligence (AI), robotic process automation (RPA), machine learning (ML) and blockchain has certainly captured the attention of finance and treasury leaders. Imagine the future of treasury involves robots taking our place in the office, or has it become a reality? Will cash management, cash forecasting, and risk management processes change from the way they are being done today? Learn from senior treasury leaders with cutting-edge views as they lead their treasury teams to prepare for the future.
A Picture is Worth $3 Billion: Applications for Data Visualization
The treasury team at Miami-Dade County Public Schools built data visualizations to assist in managing its $3 billion debt portfolio, inform the school district’s stakeholders, and make decisions about when to issue or refinance debt. Attendees gain actionable tips to develop and tailor data visualizations to help them tell the best – and right – story for their organizations.
Beyond Trading: Exploring Portal Capabilities
The overarching goal in the strategic design, integration and implementation of technology in cash management is operational efficiency ... do it faster, but safer. Utilizing case studies, this session gives insight into how treasury teams drive productive workflow through the alignment of liquidity portals, banks, electronic trading platforms, treasury management systems, consolidated reporting and analytics. In addition, the panelists discuss the attributes of various short-term investment products in addressing their investment objectives of capital preservation, liquidity and yield.
Cashflow Forecasting: Overcoming Technology and Organizational Challenges
Treasurers know cashflow forecasting is beneficial to management - better liquidity outcomes, lower interest expense, predictable credit use, among others. In practice, however, it’s often difficult to convey the benefit to the organization. When it comes to investment in new technology or process change, challenges multiply as it touches multiple levels of the organization. In this session, panelists take you through their experiences in championing, developing and using practical cash forecast, share their best practices for identifying the right technology, cost-effective options, and outline the through the process as well as the challenges each presents.
How Treasury Can Defend Itself Against Geopolitical Volatility
Brexit. Trade. The Fed. These three topics have dominated the global markets over the past year. For treasury departments, staying on top of today’s market movements and their impact on foreign holdings can be a cumbersome task. With the right technology, treasurers can keep FX markets top of mind without worrying about exposure day to day. In this interactive discussion, senior finance leaders and subject-matter experts provide key insights on how foreign assets and liabilities can affect a company’s financial reporting and managing translational risks.
Earning (& Keeping) a Seat at the ‘Big Kids’ Table: How Finance Has to Adapt to Stay Relevant & In-Demand
The skill set finance seeks has evolved significantly over the past few years. Today finance is expected to have broad technical expertise, industry expertise, business partnering skills, continuous improvement skills and cross-functional knowledge. Learn how finance can earn—and keep—a key seat at the decision-making table by folding in new technical skills and evolving a center of excellence made up of both finance and IT skills and viewpoints—an approach that bridges gaps and helps organizations reach a new level of success.
Preparing for the Transition from LIBOR
Organizations that rely on LIBOR as a benchmark rate for debt and derivatives must prepare for its potential dissolution after 2021. Treasurers need to plan for multiple scenarios, including alternatives such as SOFR, a rehabilitated LIBOR, or a combination of the two. This session provides an update on developments from the Fed and the ARRC committee, along with the steps forward-thinking treasurers are taking to prepare for a smooth transition. Attendees receive an action plan for assessing and mitigating their organization’s exposure to LIBOR unavailability.
A Sound Retirement Plan Rests on a Secure Foundation
For today’s plan sponsors, a sound plan foundation rests on three key pillars: decreasing fiduciary risk, reducing or eliminating administrative burdens, and trusting that they have the right governance model in place. Fiduciaries face complex regulations and a litigious marketplace making it critical that plans have a comprehensive operational infrastructure to support their investment management with a fee structure that aligns with business objectives and plan demographics. Leveraging a case study as background, this session explores the steps that a mid-sized company took to secure its foundation by completing an analysis of their fee structure and governance model.
Trade Wars: Facing Business Impact of Tariffs
Faced with new risks to their supply chain caused by trade tariffs and trade agreement/treaty disruptions companies are assessing the impact. Many are adjusting their business strategies accordingly – delaying or canceling investment decisions, modifying supply chains and considering relocation of some or all manufacturing. In this session, corporate practitioners present an overview of the current international economy and discuss the need for organizations to plan for operating in an environment of chaos and future uncertainty.
How Innovation in the Mobile Payments Ecosystem Impacts Consumer Behavior
Payment innovation holds the power to change shopping behavior and impact the retail industry, including the fuel and convenience industry. For example, 99% of the gasoline purchased per year in the U.S. is by swiping a credit card at the pump or paying with cash. This session examines innovations in the mobile payments ecosystem and how it drives consumer behavior through easy and secure ways to make purchases from the convenience of their phone.
New Training Tools to Upskill Your Team
The use of Digital technologies is all the rage across Finance. But how do you get an established workforce to buy into such an evolution? At Verizon, this involved forming small group training sessions that ended with employees enabled to take an active role in applying Digital technology to their job. In this session, follow Verizon’s journey to implementing the training, conveying what that training entailed to employees, and how they used the output from that training to bring the promise of Digital technologies into real work applications.
How to Successfully Implement an In-House Bank
In light of OECD’s base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) project and other similar frameworks, companies are moving from sales agency or commissionaire models to buy/sell, distributor/reseller models. This results in significant changes in the cash profiles of entities, FX exposures and intercompany flows, driving the need for an in-house bank (IHB) to optimize cash and liquidity, risk and intercompany management. Attend this session for a detailed overview of IHB, focusing on tools and techniques to successfully design and implement an IHB and discuss typical challenges in IHB implementation.
One Size Does NOT Fit All! How Different Corporates Approach FX Hedging to Achieve Results
A lack of clear FX risk management objectives can create confusion in companies, begging the question: What is our hedge program really doing? Because key objectives vary for all companies, there are many ways corporations can tackle their FX risk management hedging. Hear from an expert panel as they review their approaches to FX hedging, outline setting relevant objectives and set appropriate supporting strategies to increase financial performance and drive strategic growth.
Measuring the Success of Your FP&A Team
High performing FP&A teams have the unique ability to add significant value to an organization’s performance, but how can this be measured? An experienced practitioner panel discusses insights from APQC/AFP benchmarking research on how FP&A teams measure success, including calculating an ROI on the team, using qualitative surveys and measuring forecast accuracy. This interactive session gives attendees the opportunity to share their experiences while discussing best practices for quantifying the value that FP&A brings to their organization.
Staying Ahead of the Chain: Blockchain’s Growing Impact on Your Business and the Law
This session provides attendees with a sense of enthusiasm and confidence as we explore how blockchain can make a difference for your business. Discussion includes compelling use cases for blockchain in corporate finance, including payments processing, intercompany payments and accounting, supply chain, identity management and authentication. Additionally, speakers review the legal implications of blockchain applications and how to stay ahead of potential pitfalls, leaving attendees equipped to avoid some of the potential risks associated with this disruptive technology.
Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology
Cryptocurrencies have become a global phenomenon. While not understood by most professionals, banks and governments, many companies are aware of its importance and future significance. Blockchain technology, backbone to the crypto world, is driving the future of business innovations, practice and security. Blockchain introduces new types of digital platforms, giving rise to economic progress in a Blockchain space. Its early stage technology expanse creates a paradigm shift in the manner organizations conduct traditional financial transactions and services, both geographical and socioeconomic.
Cash Investment Management: Forget the Fads & Focus on the Fundamentals
With diverse forces driving dynamic change across the short-term markets, shifting global regulations, and new and innovative product structures in cash investing, 2019 has become more complex. Whether you oversee a mature treasury operation, are a start-up gathering funding, or a firm experiencing episodic change, opportunities abound in going back to the foundations of cash investment management. This session shares unique perspectives for supporting a return to the fundamentals of cash investment in order to achieve business goals and explore new opportunities.
Monitoring Your Work-Life Pulse
Treasury and finance positions are by nature "high stress". Stress affects our minds and bodies in ways that we know, and quite possibly in ways that have not yet been discovered. Stress happens. But the question is – How do we cope with it? Learn how you can re-package your reactions to the daily stresses - and in so doing, minimize its negative impacts. Attendees obtain effective tools to help you manage daily pressures, hone in on the keys to doing your best work, practice exit/return strategies and enable positive engagement in the workplace to achieve work/life equilibrium.
Treasury's Role in Evaluating Target Date Funds
With their investment and financial expertise, treasury and finance practitioners bring a unique perspective in evaluating and understanding the sophisticated investments embedded in modern target date funds. This informative session discusses the factors involved in evaluating a target date fund provider and how investment expertise is critical to evaluating important criteria including performance, volatility, and overall investment quality. Attendees walk away with best practices in conducting a comprehensive target date fund provider RFP search, as well as the primary investment criteria that all treasury and finance professionals should understand.
Dismantling Corporate Silos Through Embedded Process Controls
The rapid growth of globalization brings equally rapid regulatory changes that compel international organizations to keep their ears to the ground and adapt. The onus of adaptation lies on treasury to comply with global audits. As regulatory audits are sent down the pipeline, proper process controls need to be in place, allowing treasurers to ensure all subsidiaries abide by regulatory statute while simultaneously providing the central treasury with valuable systemic visibility. This session examines the intricacies of financial audits and highlights how the utilization of process controls solidifies company-wide compliance.
Moving Money & Data Together: Making Payments Smarter, Not Just Faster
Traditional payment methods without straight-through processing struggle to automatically apply payment information. But new technology solutions promise a path to effectively and accurately move both payments and payment data together in near real time. This discussion focuses on improving the customer experience from the treasury operations perspective. Industry experts representing two of the nation’s largest energy companies share how new developments in payments technological innovation are driving improvements in the customer billing and payment experience.
The Gig Economy: Driving New Demands for Corporate Finance & Payroll
Increasingly, freelance workers expect their paychecks to be as instantaneous as their work. Working on demand means payroll on demand, and this introduces new challenges and opportunities for the finance department. Join this panel discussion centered on the need for financial institutions and corporate treasurers to reimagine the way payday processes work, emphasizing the overall need to put control back in the hands of the worker. Learn from experts and hear best practices, so you’ll be ready for the changes that will soon be impacting finance departments.
Improving the Health of B2C Payments: How Children’s Hospital of Alabama Shifted to Prepaid Cards
Paper check processing continues to plague accounts payable departments across nearly every industry. The costs of returns, check reissues, fraud, and the exorbitant escheatment process for unclaimed checks all add to the drain on resources and increased FTE hours. In this session, a hospital shares best practices on implementing electronic business-to-consumer (B2C) payments for patient refunds. Attendees gain insights into how the card solution reduced the burden of documentation and requirements related to escheatment processes, and how fraud was mitigated, costs were reduced, and productivity was improved.
Transforming AP/AR Using Blockchain, Standardized APIs and Validated Data
Nacha has created new infrastructure and tools to improve key AP/AR processes and lower fraud risk. Working with leading-edge technology partners, these integrated services herald a new era for "the corporate experience" in procure-to-pay and order-to-cash. This session demonstrates functions and features for how Afinis’ standardized APIs and validated data can transform cumbersome methods for AP and AR while also improving internal controls and lowering risk.
Transforming AP/AR Using Blockchain, Standardized APIs and Validated Datan
Fostering Collaboration to Drive Team Performance
While the individual contributors in high performing teams may have similar attributes, the challenge for leaders is creating an environment and culture that promotes and recognizes collaboration. As talent does not always translate into results, it becomes incumbent on leaders to value psychological safety, relationships and to build community amongst their teams. Using examples from the business world and his own experiences coaching Olympians and World Champions, Dr. Ivan Joseph shares his proven tactics and strategies for successfully bringing diverse teams together and fostering a collaborative environment that drives team performance.
Speedy Metrics
"Speedy Metrics" is a tactical demo/tutorial about how to visualize and create dashboards and metrics that convey information quickly and clearly. Become a positive disruptive force within your FP&A team - learn how to create WOW presentations through a case study on forecasting accuracy/MAPE using PowerBI. Regardless of your visualization tool choice in life, this session offers you a chance to make a bold operational impact and avoid common pitfalls.
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There Will Be No Miracles Here
Casey Gerald’s story has the arc of a classic rags-to-riches tale, but he soon discovered there was a steep cost to his success. “If to live as we are is destroying us,” he asks, “what would it mean to truly live?” In this talk, Gerald turns the American Dream narrative on its head, inspiring attendees to keep a positive, but realistic mindset when faced with adversity, while challenging our preconceived notions of success.
How are CFOs Evaluating Treasury & Treasurer Performance?
Long seen as primarily a cash processer, the treasury function is becoming less static, crossing over to being a strategic player on the CFO’s team. With this expanded role comes the challenge of identifying the Treasury Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) - liquidity metrics, risk reduction metrics, reduced borrowing cost/increased interest cost or other contributions to net income. This session of industry treasurers looks at how the treasury function is evolving, the value it brings to the CFO and ways to employ quantitative and qualitative metrics.
How FP&A and Treasury Can Help Beat the Street
To support a sustained shareholder value growth, finance practitioners must continuously decipher investor expectations, translate them into financial objectives and enable the company to meet and exceed them. Unfortunately, today’s financial literature and platforms do not provide the finance practitioner with the necessary tools to successfully perform this important role. This session clarifies these challenges, offers strategies for successfully addressing them and outlines the roles different finance functions play in deciphering investors’ expectations.
China: Opening Doors Creating Opportunities for U.S. Corporates
China is the fastest growing market in the world, and U.S. and China are the largest trading partners globally. Slowly the doors to China’s market are opening, and through those doors tremendous new opportunities are coming. This session provides the keys to navigating successfully the challenges of this new territory and unlocks the black box by providing the roadmap and tools necessary for U.S. corporations to develop and implement new strategies and processes to drive better financial results in China.
Food for Thought: The Secret to Successful Post-Acquisition Treasury Integration
When acquisition is the growth strategy of the day, treasury teams are not only tasked with integrating the new business into the treasury management fold, they also must manage change that comes to their own department with the arrival of new processes, new team members and potentially, new job responsibilities. In this session, hear how a restaurant company managed change in the midst of an aggressive acquisition drive, integrating new businesses into their processes, using change management strategies to streamline integration activities, and more.
Don’t Get Left Behind: Understanding the Incremental Borrowing Rate
Corporations are required to use the incremental borrowing rate to discount outstanding lease payments. The fair value of leases must now be recorded on the balance sheet, and noncompliance is not an option under the new ASC 842 and IFRS 16 requirements. Attend this session to discover how treasurers are dealing with this new requirement, and how to implement a consistent approach to determine the fair value of operating leases using the five building blocks. Attendees also gain strategic insight into credit rating and pricing assessments.
Sink or Swim: LIBOR’s Transition to a New Reference Rate Leaves Investors Less Than Buoyant
As investors grapple with the transition away from LIBOR, $370 trillion worth of contracts hang in the balance. The former standard global reference rate is transitioning to one option of many, leaving global investors with the need to consider using more than one rate, and to learn how those reference rates move during periods of financial distress. This session provides a foundational history of LIBOR, reviews the implications of transitioning from LIBOR to SOFR and how corporations and investors can prepare for transition.
Leveraging Technology to Achieve Optimal Results
Enhancing technology to optimize treasury processes, controls and reporting is now an essential treasury requirement rather than an optional commodity. TMS selection and implementation is a risky undertaking, but corporates demand—and in some cases, are required to have—current, global financial information with sophisticated analytics and intuitive reporting. The common stumbling blocks for a technology initiative are discussed in this session, and attendees are provided with strategies to successfully mitigate the traps that can cause delays, overruns or both.
The Politics of Communication
In the political arena, successful politicians have mastered the art of crafting and communicating a desired perception of themselves. Following their model, you too can be intentional about the perceptions you want to create. Every interaction is a brush stroke that paints a picture of in the minds of others, and the way you communicate is the broadest brush of all. In this informative session, discover the “Six Keys to Effective Communication” to help you cultivate the perception and the reputation you really want.
Building an Awesome FP&A Team: A Story of Innovation and Engagement
Are you tired of being called a ‘bean counter’ or ‘revenue prevention’? Are you and your team perceived as ivory tower staff that adds no value? It doesn’t have to be like that. Come hear the story of how a small FP&A team engaged within a fast-moving, high-tech business at a different level. Learn about how innovation, out-of-the-box thinking, continuous learning, and having some fun at work transformed a department of financial analysts and managers into an AWESOME FP&A team, that delivered on adding value, flexibility, and responsiveness.
Drowning in Liquidity but Still Thirsty: How Much is Too Much?
One of the carryovers from the Great Recession is the generous accumulation of balance-sheet cash. The AFP Liquidity Survey has shown a slow decrease in cash as a percentage of short-term investment assets, but cash remains elevated relative to the early 2000s. This panel addresses these questions and compares their concepts of liquidity, how they think about it, its importance in their investment programs, while balancing the need for liquidity with the other pillars of corporate investing.
Fiduciary Mystery: The Case for Re-Enrollment
Fiduciary responsibility is the broad requirement to act in the best interest of the plan participants, but sometimes it can feel like a mystery. Many in this position ask themselves, "Am I doing everything I need to help my fellow employees?" This discussion reviews common issues in retirement plans and investigates how each can be mitigated by utilizing one of the most critical tactics available, re-enrollment. Corporate practitioners discuss their experiences with re-enrollment while a plan attorney provides testimony about current related precedents and the strength of the fiduciary case.
Getting More From Your Technology to Master Cash Forecasting
Forecasting remains one of the key areas treasuries continue to evolve and refine. In 2019 Treasurers rated forecasting as a top 3 item for optimization due to their focus on maximizing liquidity and working capital while enhancing investment returns and minimizing cash balances. Leveraging technology to add efficiency and precision is a challenge most organizations are looking to master. This session explores real-world examples of common forecasting challenges, and offers best practices, technology strategies and solutions you can employ to enhance your forecasting.
The Future of Payments (Is Now)
Today’s payments landscape is rapidly changing as new payment types are widely adopted. In this session, practitioners share examples of prioritizing payment settlement by use case, cost and speed to reduce cost and improve efficiency. Discover how the reduction of friction plays a role in payment support, how machine-learning has improved straight-through processing, as well as helping to mitigate potential fraudulent payments from occurring. And hear about successful deployment and lessons learned, as well as how quickly to throttle the payment volume from implementation to full roll-out.
“The FBI is on Line 2”: The Good, The Bad, and The Reasonably Attractive Parts of Payments
“I used to consider myself a payments risk expert, right up until I received that subpoena.” Join this insightful session for a first-hand account of how a payments executive landed on the witness stand in a federal trial, the strategic and tactical mistakes made, and the resulting impact. Panelists look at the common practices that make payments organizations more vulnerable to third-party risk, how to identify these practices, and the steps that can be implemented to protect your organization.
Next Generation Technology: Virtual Accounts in Centralized Treasury
Corporate treasurers are always looking for the next generation technology that delivers improved efficiency, better control, and streamlined reconciliation. Today the answer just might be virtual accounts. Traditionally used as a receivables tool, banks in the U.S. are taking this solution to the next level—offering more flexibility in how and where virtual accounts can be used. Learn how Virtual Accounts can simplify processes and add value at every step from payor identification, to account rationalization, to enhanced visibility, to greater security.
Beyond Speed: Emerging Payments Application in the Real World
Businesses are looking for more innovative payment solutions that can help them better adapt to the pace of today’s financial transactions. Hear how two early adopters of RTP® and Zelle® are embracing new payment types. This session provides unique insights from two commercial real estate companies that are leveraging new payment types to address longstanding challenges associated with check payments. Highlighting the enhanced remittance attributes and fraud prevention features of these emerging payment types, explore applications in commercial real estate and other industries.
It’s all in the Data: Improving Analytics to Build Real-time Risk Management and Next Gen Risk Finance
By next year, 1.7 megabytes of data will be produced every second by each of the Earth’s 8 billion people. Organizations that leverage data to manage risk in real-time have the potential to both reduce and transfer risk more effectively, but for many, making effective use of this data remains a stumbling block. Attend this discussion and learn how to prepare your organization to take advantage of new opportunities to implement real-time risk management strategies.
Advanced Interest Rate Hedging Strategies
Interest rate hedging becomes significantly more complex when you introduce multi-currency debt structures, net investment hedging and managing multiple banking relationships. This strategic session for companies with sophisticated risk profiles focuses on hedging in the context of overall capital markets activity with experienced corporate treasurers sharing their insights on navigating market complexities, achieving wholesale pricing, capitalizing on the new accounting standards, and adeptly communicating strategies and outcomes to stakeholders.
Exploiting the IT and Finance Partnership to Trail-blaze Digital Finance
Budgeting, Forecasting and Planning Best Practices
As FP&A practitioners, there is often a focus on the process without a strong discussion of how overall organizational strategy, people and technology play into the equation. This panel of experienced FP&A and financial systems practitioners shed light through lively conversation on what works well—and what could be going better, not only from a budgeting, forecasting and planning process perspective, but also from an organizational strategy, people and technology perspective. The group also shares its thoughts on what it takes to succeed, how to organize for success, and what pitfalls to avoid along the way.
Treasurers Innovation Panel
Transforming your treasury technology can be a complex, sometimes messy endeavor that can put your leadership skills to the test. A panel of senior treasury practitioners who have recently undergone, or are in the process of undergoing, innovative technology projects, discuss their unique challenges. Attendees walk away with strategies that address these challenges in a range of topics that include global liquidity management; risk management; payments processing; and the practical implications of the most recent technological disruptors such as blockchain, robotic process automation, cyber-risk management and artificial intelligence.
Fulfill Your Potential and Beyond: A Path for Career Success
Get out of your comfort zone and start taking action that leads to the path of professional and personal success. Active participation in the many opportunities around you increases confidence and motivation, and provides you with the chance to practice and develop skills you never knew you had. Through examples and related stories, attendees learn actionable strategies for advancing their careers and driving personal growth.
Point to CounterPoint: A Discussion and Debate of Treasury Management Issues of the Day
A highly interactive session, this classic debate covers topics such as: the pros and cons of legally banking the growing cannabis industry, should the provisions of the Glass-Steagall Act be resurrected and re-instated, is it appropriate for the Fed to enter the market for real-time interbank payments and compete with private sector, should the U.S. Postal Service get into branch banking—and more! You won’t want to miss this informative and lively debate between two seasoned professionals in the treasury management field with over 60 years combined experience.
Audits, VDAs, Reports, Sounds Like Unclaimed Property
Many organizations are trying to keep up with every regulation possible, but some can be easily overlooked. Unclaimed property reporting often falls into that category, but noncompliance may subject the company to penalty and interest assessments. As such, all "holders" of unclaimed property need to understand the requirements and establish effective processes. Attend this session to understand how the recent changes in legislation may affect your organization, and learn how mergers and acquisitions, internal accounting policies, system conversions, third-party relationships, and misunderstandings often enhance escheatment liability.
Monetary Policy and Its Impact on the Yield Curve
Join this discussion of the Fed’s mandate for conducting monetary policy and how it has impacted the current decision-making process. Hear about the factors behind the Fed’s decision to raise rates; the market developments that could avert further rate increases; economic and financial variables you should keep track of in order better anticipate the emergence of a recession, as well as the lag effect monetary policy has on the economy.
Environmental, Social, & Governance (ESG) Factors and Credit Ratings: Making the Connection
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are increasingly important for investment decisions. That’s why Fitch has introduced ESG relevance scores to show relevance and materiality of ESG to ratings. Fitch’s ESG Relevance Scores are integrated into its entity research, transparently displaying the impact of ESG elements on credit opinions across all sectors. This session examines ESG and its increasing importance to the investment community, and how the analysis of ESG factors fits into the bigger picture of credit ratings.
Balancing Your Team: The Diversity Multiple
The profile of a successful team has grown to reflect a new global socio-economic order. With wider and more inclusive policies towards diversity and gender balance diversity has a bigger role in optimizing the performance of a global treasury team, and enabling companies to be creative in managing their talent and resources. Speakers share insights on the integral role diversity plays in fully leveraging talent to support a collective agenda and maximize shareholder value.
Cyberrisk and Fraud Mitigation for Treasury and Finance
The move to faster payments, new technology and delivery models have increased payment fraud risks. What actions should treasury departments take to protect data and cash, and which should be addressed first? The panel in this session shares the latest strategies you can take to help avoid financial impacts and reputation and operational risks, discusses the most prevalent areas of exposure, and explores best practices to combat cyber exploitation, as well as actions to take in the case of a cyber fraud incident.
SWIFT on Payments: The Future is Now
Customers expect the same fast and frictionless payment experience that they receive in their everyday lives, creating a catalyst for the global transformation of banking and financial services. What innovations should be prioritized in order to ensure cross-border transactions become faster and simpler, while remaining secure? How are banks responding to customer demands for speed, certainty and traceability, coupled with transparency of fees and rich remittance information? Hear first-hand how financial institutions and corporates are already transforming their cross-border payments experience with SWIFT gpi.
A Corporate, a Bank and a Mega-Computer Walk into a Bar: How AI Can (and Will) Drive Productivity in Payments
The payments industry is on the cusp of a technological transformation but is the industry ready. To survive this dynamic environment, treasury and finance practitioners need to use every tool available to make their payments practices simple, smart and secure. That means going beyond payment automation to understand how AI can simplify and secure the processes of making payments and managing cash. This panel discussion covers all aspects of this issue, including how AI can transform day-to-day financial management, the risks it does (or does not) pose, and how far it can all go.
Progress on the Path of Payments Improvement: Update from the Federal Reserve
During this session, attendees learn about the efforts of industry work groups focused on real-time payments, the Federal Reserve’s FedNow initiative in pursuit of real-time payments, and the collaborative work to identify and mitigate payment security risks. Hear from the Federal Reserve on how you should prepare for the future of the U.S. payment system.
Realizing the Benefits of Faster Payments for the Corporate Treasurer
By some estimates, nearly 50% of payments today are still made with checks. According to a TD Bank survey, 42% of U.S. corporate and treasury executives rank real-time payments as having the greatest potential to transform their departments. But what will faster payments mean for corporate treasurers, and how should they plan for them? Join this discussion centered on exploring these questions, and the risks and other factors corporate treasurers need to account for as payments begin marching to a new, faster beat.
Breakfast of Champions: Managing Executive Benefit Costs, Risks with Innovative Hedging
General Mills’ deferred compensation plan was causing volatility in its income statement. As the notional investments offered to plan participants fluctuated in value, compensation expense was directly impacted. General Mills evaluated the most popular strategies for eliminating this volatility and ultimately implemented a relatively new innovation: a total return swap hedge of its plan liability. Get the details on why this strategy is valuable for managing the risks and costs of deferred compensation plans.
Designing a Cash Equivalent Investment Strategy
A universal directive to all Treasury executives is to optimize investment income with a low risk, high liquidity, investment portfolio that requires a minimum amount of time to manage, account for and audit. This session provides insight into Children’s Mercy Hospital’s successful development of an Investment Policy and structure that achieves this directive. Learn how to develop and implement ways to increase investment income in a rising rate environment utilizing a blend of select financial products and with limited time commitment.
Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction
The research is clear, the state of our attention determines the state of our lives. Yet our attention has never been as overwhelmed or in-demand as it is today. We’ve never been so busy while accomplishing so little, and we’ve grown increasingly uncomfortable with a lack of stimulation and distraction. Productivity and performance expert, Chris Bailey, reveals how effectively managing our attention hinges on working with greater intention, taming stimulating distractions, and strategically un-focusing to take better mind wandering breaks. Attendees gain strategies for working with fewer distractions while getting more done by making your work harder, not easier.
Live Hack and Data Breach Masterclass
As financial sector enterprises grow, they become more exposed to cyber risk through the global reach of their operations and a growing number of third-party relationships. Research shows that companies that are prepared for a cyberattack are less likely to suffer a data breach in the first place, experience less damage, are better able to respond, and are quicker to recover! In this interactive live demonstration, data security experts discuss how you can prepare your organization to respond to a data breach and test the soundness of your organization’s game-plan in the event of a breach.
Leveraging APIs to Transform Your Business Model
The use and momentum of APIs is often discussed, yet most companies are cautious and slow to adopt. A leading financial services organization took on the challenge of leveraging APIs in their Hong Kong operations to overcome competition from rising fintech disruptors. The case study outlines how the company embarked on this digital journey and implemented a solution using API connectivity and the proxy verification of Hong Kong’s Faster Payment System (FPS) to shorten the processing time for hospitalization and accident claims to as early as 24 hours from claim submission.
Money Saving Developments Hedging With New Financial Instruments at CME Group
The cost of benchmark interest rate hedging with bi-lateral over-the-counter swaps has traditionally been regarded as unavoidable. But FASB amendments and innovations in financial markets now means corporate treasurers may hedge at transparent and efficient near mid-market wholesale prices, saving millions of dollars on the cost of interest rate hedging. Learn more about these innovations and how they may be implemented easily, reducing the financial cost of hedging and improving your operational efficiencies.
Integrated Business Planning & Analytics at HPHC: Leveraging the Power of the Cloud
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare (HPHC) invested in a cloud-based modeling, planning and reporting solution to replace an antiquated software platform that no longer supported the needs of the business. A rise in business complexity, competitive dynamics, and profitability pressures required better visibility into the drivers of financial performance, better transparency and flexibility in cost allocations. Learn how HPHC significantly improved the efficiency and effectiveness planning and reporting, enhanced profitability analytics, and delivered high impact data visualization and management reports while successfully driving change management and adoption.
Fighting Fraud with Better Tools and Smarter People
Computer Weekly reports that 4 out of 5 organizations have faced an email-based cyberattack in the past few years. The key to fighting this growing threat is improved human vigilance and the use of advanced cybersecurity technologies. In this panel discussion, get insights into the best practices in leveraging human capital as a firewall to mitigate risk with a focus on education, the importance of taking a cross-functional approach to ensure the organization is fully prepared to identify potential threats and plan for taking appropriate actions.
Brexit and the Future of UK Relationships With the U.S. and the World
The Brexit deal has floundered through three years of deliberation, debates, negotiations and a deadlocked parliament fueling uncertainty about the UK’s future relation with Europe and the rest of the world, including the U.S. This session examines the possible outcomes under probable scenarios and the future impact on U.S. multi-nationals in the UK and Europe. Leading advisers to corporate treasures on Brexit provide insights into how U.S. corporates should prepare for Brexit, how the financial markets are likely to behave, and examines opportunities for the U.S. to shape a new international trade agreement with the UK.
Using Scenario Planning
The pace of business in the 21st century changes rapidly and is even more unpredictable, yet most organizations rely on budgeting processes rely on an outdated blueprint requiring a great deal of assumptions. FP&A teams are replacing this blueprint with robust scenario planning processes to help their organizations become faster at recognizing changes and assessing when and how plans should be modified to protect against risk. Attendees get a view of DFA’s takes scenario planning integration process and best practices for implementation. Through small group exercises further understand strategies for applying scenario planning.
Artificial Intelligence Within the Financial World: How Will it Help You?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing today’s landscape for financial professionals. Whether it’s retail inventory control or back-office data integration, previously accepted manual practices are rapidly being streamlined. By eliminating the need for manual input, AI can reduce manual input errors, mitigate operational risk and enable greater visibility into transactions. Many vendors and customers are already embracing AI, is your organization ready for the next step? How will AI play a role within your financial operating structure and systems? Explore the impact, risks and benefits of leveraging AI within the modern payments world.
Perception and Reality: Your Personal Brand
Your personal brand stems from two components: perception and reality. Perception relies on how others observe you within your professional setting. Reality is the basis of how you operate, your strengths and what you stand for. Learn strategies for creating an authentic brand that embraces diversity, inclusion values that ultimately strengthens workplace environments and relationships.
How to Measure Success, Performance, and Risk in a Cash Portfolio
For seasoned corporate treasurers and new investors managing cash portfolios, the principles of safety, liquidity and return remain a constant. This expert panel shares how they measure success, assess performance and risk in their own organizations' cash portfolios, discuss different metrics and applications. Their real-world examples provide attendees with a vision for establishing a foundation of innovative thinking and strategy to leverage resources and technology to meet their organizations’ short- and long-term needs.
Designing and Delivering a Workplace Financial Wellness Program
Employers are getting in the financial wellness game, and not a moment too soon. Surveys show 46% of U.S. employees report living paycheck to paycheck, and 72% of U.S. workers report experiencing financial stress. While we know that many corporations plan to include financial well-being in their benefit plans, research shows that most do not know how to start. Attend this session to learn tips for designing a successful financial wellness program that benefits both the company and its employees.
Dealing with Cash: The Currency Logistics Conundrum
While cash is steadily declining as a payment option, it still represents a real logistics challenge for treasury organizations. In this panel discussion, two large companies discuss their approach and strategies in evaluating available currency logistics options, and how they selected the one that works best for them. Hear an overview of the latest trends across the industry and examine when traditional cash vault solutions make the most sense, as well as when a non-armored carrier currency processing solution tailored to deposit and POS/reconciliation processes can deliver optimal savings.
Dealing with Cash: The Currency Logistics ConundrumC-Clearly?
Exploring the New Reality: How Real-Time Payments is Transforming the Industry, and Why We Need to Care
Since the RTP® network launched two years ago, reception to the new system has been mixed. Early adopters are paving the way with new tactics to customize and enhance individual service offerings and optimize treasury operations, while others have taken a more cautionary, wait-and-see approach. Explore the pros and cons of these two strategies, receive an update on RTP network usage as it stands today, and investigate the details around how one corporate practitioner has taken steps to leverage the network in this informative session.
ISO 20022 – Taking it to the Next Level – U.S. and Global
Over the last year, ISO 20022 has continued to gain traction worldwide. Corporate treasury front- and back-end systems are integrating with payments systems via ISO 20022, putting pressure on corporations to assess the value it can bring to their organizations. To ensure success, learn how to integrate ISO 20022 into your payments systems with the right business partners, understanding the nuances between payments systems and information flows, as well as takeaway strategies for conquering the challenges.
Avoid Mistakes: Make Fewer Assumptions About Blockchain
No matter your role within treasury and finance, blockchain technology can impact you and your business. Most have heard the hype about the distributed, decentralized ledger, but what if what you’ve read is potentially misleading? Join us for a discussion on the questions raised by both the technology of blockchain and how we talk about it to gain insights into what’s happening now and what to think about for the future.
The Future of Work: What You Need to Know
The future of work is talked about everywhere, but tactics for preparing for that future are minimal. Author and CEO of New America, Anne-Marie Slaughter describes how the nature of work is changing, and how, regardless of age or tenure, everyone must plan for lives of intertwined learning and earning while developing portfolios of different skills. Drawing on her work with the Shift Commission on the Future of Work, Slaughter outlines the areas of the economy where jobs are most likely to grow and the inevitable impact on our social infrastructure.
Emerging Benchmark Interest Rates: Accounting and Valuation Observations on Libor Replacement
LIBOR is expected to be phased out of major financial markets by the end of 2021. Alternatives to LIBOR rates are emerging across the globe and mechanisms for establishing contractual fallbacks and adjustments to LIBOR-indexed financial instruments are being developed to minimize disruption upon its permanent discontinuation. These changes will have impacts on treasury systems and derivative instrument structures and valuation. Session speakers provide an overview of the status of changes to global benchmark interest rates and the potential implications for borrowers and financial risk managers.
Finance’s Evolving Role: The Importance of Transformation and Digitization to Finance
Finance organizations are changing quickly, shifting to include more non-traditional functions and leading the charge in overall business strategy and investment priorities, including digitization, the enablement of process automation, cloud computing, data visualization and advanced analytics. Teams are forced to become more technically skilled and knowledgeable, while still using the tools and methods of decades past. Taking you through the challenges and gains of their own finance transformation, Amex shares how they built a reliable roadmap and created data and technology strategies that supported a successful transformation.
Now Playing: AI, ML and Finance in Real Life
FP&A professionals who want to accelerate their business processes should look at AI as a must-have tool in their planning toolkit. AI simplifies and automates customer-level planning and creates new insights and a more accurate predication/plan. One company applied AI to their customer data and have been able to increase the level of their planning accuracy by 10-20%. This interactive session avails the potential added value of AI for FP&A in four areas: data cleansing, forecasting and prediction, categorization and scoring, and driver-based planning.
What’s Your Game Plan for Data and Cybersecurity? Prepare for the Unexpected
Data, cyber and identity controls are top priorities for corporates and have become a board-level topic. What do corporate treasurers need to consider when working with their team, their banks, technology partners (ERP, TMS, AP) and providers? Join this discussion to learn about the current threats impacting the industry, and the trends shaping data security and cybersecurity from a corporate, bank and SWIFT perspective. This panel shares practical approaches to strengthen your data security and cybersecurity from three fronts: the people, processes and identifying right tools.
Collision Course: Navigating Merging Treasury Teams
M&A deals are a normal course of business — and M&A activity shows no signs of slowing down — but what role does treasury play? According to Deloitte’s “The State of the Deal” report, of the 1,000 executives surveyed, almost 90% anticipate the current level of M&A activity to continue, or even grow. Today treasurers have an increasingly important role in the process – for many, closing the deal is just the beginning of the story. Explore a roadmap for building an M&A treasury plan of action, strategies for standardizing processes and acquiring the right tools to be better equipped for handling future M&A activity.
Coaching ROI: A Path for Creating High-Performing Teams
Incorporating coaching into a professional development plan improves the organization from the inside out, improving the performance and satisfaction of both individuals and teams. In this session, attendees discover how coaching in a home services company resulted in increased sales and higher margins while maintaining an honest, fulfilled workforce. And, hear the firsthand account of an FP&A practitioner at a large teaching hospital who used the skills acquired through coaching to create buy-in regarding expense reductions while creating personal fulfillment.
Capitalizing on Rising Rates: Driving Strategic Value from an Early Pay Program
Follow the journey of a leading food service company that successfully implemented an early pay strategy to transform financial risk and liquidity in their supply chain. Attendees gain insight into key optimization strategies like supply chain finance and dynamic discounting, and the logistics of establishing a successful supplier financing strategy. In an era of rising interest rates, where optimization of working capital becomes increasingly important, all companies can benefit from these valuable lessons.
Manage Pension Risk Prior to Merger/Termination
Organizations with defined benefit (DB) plans are subject to significant risks, which can cause havoc if they are in the middle of a merger/acquisition and are asked by the acquiring company to terminate the pension plan. Fortunately, there are new, innovative solutions being used to transfer the risks to an insurance company so the organization can focus on running the organization. In the case study presented, the company used a buy-in strategy to remove their DB pension risk prior to being acquired.
ASU 2017-12: Practical Applications of the New Hedge Accounting Rules
Issued last fall, Derivatives and Hedging has modified hedge accounting rules by allowing more hedging strategies to qualify, simplifying compliance, and more closely aligning fair value measurements of a hedge with an underlying exposure. This session outlines how entities are using these new hedging strategies in practical ways to eliminate financial risk, minimize cost and efficiently report under the hedge accounting provisions. Discussion also includes new hedging structures used in cash flow, fair value and net investment hedging, and how the strategies can be effectively implemented.
Building Leaders, One Conversation at a Time
It’s time to consider a new approach to civil communication. The most powerful tool we have builds strong relationships, aligns with corporate culture commitments, minimizes risk, and advances team objectives: it’s the conversation. Explore the key elements of great conversations and introduces visualization techniques to support optimization. With a simple mindset change, individuals can view their conversations as the greatest institutes of higher learning—a place where we can all broaden our perspective and evolve as communicators.
Acquisition Financing: Managing Banks, Rating Agencies and Investors to Minimize Cost of Capital
Many companies pursue strategic acquisitions to grow the business, frequently using public and/or private debt to fund the transaction. To manage the process and craft the credit story in an acquisition treasury and finance professionals need to understand the entire process—from obtaining committed financing to executing the permanent financing. Such knowledge can make a meaningful difference in the company's cost of capital. The treasurer of a public company presents an insightful review of a major acquisition and outlines the critical objectives in managing the process to execute financing, while minimizing cost of capital.
Optimizing the Client Experience Through Payment Automation
The value that the latest trends in B2C payments are creating for businesses is exceptional. Join us for a discussion of one company’s innovative approach to enhancing their traditional consumer payment methods. Attendees learn how the company collaborated with their solution providers and internal partners to create an empowering and easy client experience while optimizing their payment processes through automation.
ACH's Road to the Future: What is Changing in the ACH that will Drive Your Payments Strategy?
Payments Hub Challenge
Do Faster Payments Equal Faster Fraud? – Driving Adoption While Mitigating Risk
As the momentum behind faster payments is growing, fraudsters are deploying new, sophisticated tactics that rely on synthetic identities and stolen consumer information to evade fraud prevention systems. This session focuses on fraud trends within the payment ecosystem and the tools available to expedite payments without inadvertently accelerating fraud. Gain insight into the current threat environment with examples of fraud schemes, and the best practices and tools available to protect your organization.
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Emerging Technologies & Financial Planning: What Actually Works!
Organizations have started to leverage emerging technologies like big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence to compliment and augment FP&A processes. Industry gossip indicates that everyone is leveraging these technologies as core components of their FP&A life, but is that really the case? Join this interactive session for a discussion of how FP&A teams have improved their forecast accuracy, more easily managed and expedited the close process, and better engaged with business partners using components and facets of emerging tools, technologies and concepts.
Taking The Numb Out of Numbers
Accounting is a foreign language to those outside of the finance and treasury departments. And, if you’re like most finance and treasury professionals, your delivery of complex financial information is putting your clients, customers and associates to sleep on a regular basis. Attend this session to learn how to use the power of financial storytelling, data visualization and PowerPoint to create interesting presentations that allow you to connect with your audience.
Managing Liquidity in a Rising Rate Environment
After years in a relatively flat interest rate environment, corporate treasury professionals are challenged to make critically important liquidity decisions amidst rising rates, limited cash flow and changes in tax laws. Panelists examine the key issues corporates face around the investment debt-decision process, maximizing returns on excess funds, the importance of time value of investments concept, evaluating floating rate entities, and managing and forecasting debt over a 12-18-month horizon.
Cash Forecasting: Roadmap to the Future
For businesses, cash forecasting provides a window into the future, allowing the ability to better anticipate challenges and recognize opportunities, such as managing cash & liquidity, managing debt and interest expense and allocating capital. This session covers Treasury cash flow forecasting at a fundamental level; from where you start in building a cash flow forecasting process, to the different roles that Treasury and FP&A play in the process, and how automation and technology can assist with building a sustainable cash flow forecasting framework.
Proactive Strategies to Combat Payment Fraud
The use of new technology brings many advantages, but it can also challenge treasury teams to combat payment fraud as new payment channels emerge. As payment networks, systems and platforms evolve, criminals often move faster than the control environment. This in-depth discussion of business email compromise (BEC), incorporates real examples to highlight emerging threats, strategies to combat payment fraud, both prevention and recovery, and outlines how to create comprehensive payment fraud risk mitigation strategies to significantly reduce the financial risk to your organization.
The Prescription for Card Program Success
Implementing a global card program is never without its difficulties - try doing it in just eight months across 38 countries. Join two global companies to learn how they reduced costs, improved control over spending, mitigated risk, increased convenience for employees, improved customer experience and drove productivity by leveraging T&E, P-Card, Virtual Card Accounts and Central Travel Accounts.
Building an FX Program to Achieve Risk Reduction Goals & Optimize Program Costs
This session outlines how treasury and finance professionals can optimize their risk management programs by using interactive optimization tools across their FX risk portfolio. Optimization must take place upon the foundation of a sound risk management program. Steps in this program should include identifying and measuring risk, establishing risk limits and objectives, strategy design and execution, and performance measurement. This foundation facilitates cost and risk efficiency analyses – all helping organizations to reach the goal of creating a more cost-effective hedging strategy and determine the potential impact to earnings.
Virtual Account Management: The Next Big Thing in Treasury, Now Live Globally
Spurred on by today’s ongoing digital transformation, the treasury function within most organizations is undergoing an evolution. With tremendous pressure to improve treasury efficiency and centralize financial control, more and more corporates are assessing the value of virtual account management (VAM). In this session, practitioners discuss how innovative VAM tools can benefit treasury in simplifying account structures, supporting moves to an in-house bank or on-behalf-of payments and receipts, and automating reconciliations.
Avoiding the Deadly Sins of Incentive Compensation
Incentive compensation plans—sales commissions, executive bonus plans, MBO plans for managers and key employees throughout the enterprise—are a powerful tool for motivating and rewarding employees. However, poorly implemented plans can be expensive, ineffective, and even counterproductive. Join this highly practical discussion to learn about the many things that can go wrong with incentive compensation—and some guidance on how to avoid those disasters.
Chasing The Interest Rate Differential: Lessons Learned
Increasing interest rate differentials between the U.S. and the Eurozone have provided an incentive for multinational corporations to finance European operations with Euro-denominated debt. There are various ways of creating local debt, with different accounting implications associated with each. In addition, new accounting standards related to derivatives provide an opportunity to take advantage of the interest rate differential with minimal accounting complications. This session provides an overview of their strategies related to these transactions and describe real scenarios to demonstrate these principles.
Deriving Value from Values: An ESG Investment Thesis
Companies are increasingly focused on incorporating and disclosing ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) mandates across their businesses, including investments—even cash. Join a recognized expert to discuss the growing body of research that suggests an increasing proportion of market value can be linked to intangible assets like ESG factors. Incorporating moral and ethical motivations into a value-based exercise that considers risk mitigation and long-term growth potential can be the recipe for making a difference in the world—and your bottom line.
Integrated Payables (IP) and Strategic Supplier Enablement
In today’s evolving payables environment, there is a growing need to remove the effort and cost of paper and, wherever possible, steer payments to electronic accounts payable (EAP) settlement types (virtual card/ACH/ACH+). A best practice in a strong IP program includes a consolidated supplier enablement strategy that allows for multiple settlement types, but steers transactions towards EAP, particularly where there is a revenue share. Learn about the different EAPs available and best practices for creating a strong IP program for your company in this informative session.
Open Banking, PSD2 and the Changing Face of Payments
In 2016 the UK CMA mandated that the nine largest current account providers must open access to transactional data and payments to third parties, using secure API technology, in order to enhance competition and drive innovation. Open Banking puts customers in control of their own financial data, giving customers the choice of sharing it with authorized third parties in real-time. This provides greater transparency and control. As Open Banking expands globally, hear how organizations are implementing data sharing and payment initiation APIs that ensure compliance while still fostering innovation.
The Impact of Real-Time Payments on Treasury Operations
Real-time payments (RTP) have been evolving in pursuit of a better payments system that is safe, ubiquitous, efficient and broadly accessible by 2020. RTP will provide benefits such as transparency and predictability within countries and across borders, while also impacting liquidity management, foreign exchange management and overall treasury processes and treasury controls. Explore how Treasury organizations are grappling with transitioning from a batch world to a real-time world to manage changing customer expectations and remaining true to their business model.
Treasury's Big Data: How to Transform Analysis Statements Into Analytics
Treasurers are sitting on a wealth of data that reveals the habits of their global operation and can be used as an internal report card of treasury functions. Learn how to read and understand cash management billing information from across the globe and use this information in combination with the AFP Service Codes to impress your manager with analytics on your organization, bank fee spend, cross-bank comparisons and more.
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Organizations in the payments industry are developing faster and real-time payments solutions to pay and receive funds faster, but potential implementation challenges may exist. In 15 minutes, select providers present their solution to help guide a fictitious insurance company in their transition of some of their legacy payments to faster and real-time payments systems that promise to cut costs and time to send payments, provide a positive customer experience, and improve cash forecasting. Attendees gain insights into the process and benefits of implementing a new payments system while selecting their favorite solution to the challenge.
The ACH Networks is continually driving efforts to innovate and enhance the payments experience for both corporates and their customers. NACHA leadership and practitioners explore how current enhancements to the ACH Network provide more robust Same Day ACH services, offer improved solutions to easily route and post transactions, and utilizes payments information to support automation and increase efficiency.
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Real-Time Risk Management and Next Generation Insurance
A confluence of technology and data collection advances are enabling businesses and the insurance industry to move toward a revolutionary new approach: real-time risk management. Managing risk in real time offers the potential to both reduce risk and transfer it more effectively. It means businesses can have an up-to-the-minute view of their changing risk exposures, take actions to mitigate them, and even have their insurance priced in the moment instead of relying solely on historical data. Attend this future-looking session to discover how these advances may affect your organization.
Get the latest updates from the Federal Reserve on how to best prepare for a real-time environment and the next generation of the payments system. Attendees learn about the efforts of industry work groups focused on real-time payments, the Federal Reserve’s initiatives to assess any needed improvements to its services in pursuit of real-time payments, and the collaborative work to identify and mitigate payment security risks.
Demystifying AI and Predictive Analytics for Treasury Risk Management
Technology solutions directed to increase data access, connectivity, and to perform routine treasury management activities have proliferated over recent years. Edgy new solutions promise to deliver next stage benefits using predictive analytics and artificial intelligence. But what is AI, what does it mean to corporate treasury groups, and can you rely on it? Learn how AI applies to future corporate treasury applications in this future-thinking session.
For treasurers, cash forecasting provides a window to the future, allowing them to better anticipate challenges and recognize opportunities. Building an effective cash forecasting habit can be difficult; however, organizations can’t overlook this critical function of treasury management. By building the forecasting process into their daily tasks, treasurers have a better understanding of their current capabilities and a view into the future. This session examines what organizations should be evaluating when looking for a cash flow forecasting solution, based on their needs and desired outcomes.
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A universal directive to all Treasury executives is to optimize investment income with a low risk, high liquidity, investment portfolio that requires a minimum amount of time to manage, account for and audit. This session provides insight into Children’s Mercy Hospital’s successful development of an Investment Policy and structure that achieves this directive. Practitioners learn how to develop, implement and maintain ways to increase investment income in a rising rate environment utilizing a blend of select financial products and with limited time commitment from Treasury Staff.
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