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Apr 18, 2025 • 28min
2025 Tariff Impacts and Treasury: Navigating Uncertainties
Pushpendra Mehta meets with Craig Jeffery, Managing Partner at Strategic Treasurer, to explore how treasurers can prepare for tariff-induced risks and uncertainties. For further reading, visit the following links: 2025 Tariffs and Treasury: Measuring the impact and navigating uncertainties Five steps to help CFOs and treasurers mitigate the impact of new or higher tariffs

Feb 20, 2025 • 45min
Leading Practices in Treasury: An Audiobook from our Professional Development Series
Download the eBook here. This second installment in the Professional Development Series delves into leading practices for treasury’s daily tasks. In this ebook, both new and experienced treasury professionals will find practical, focused recommendations and considerations to help hone their skills. With fine-tuned leading practices for bank relationship management, bank account architecture, forecasting, compliance, managing unknown risks, and more, this guide offers tried and true approaches that will help you and your organization thrive. Take the quiz for 0.9 CTP credits here.

Dec 20, 2024 • 25min
6 treasury management trends for 2025 - (TREASURY NEWS)
Pushpendra Mehta meets with Craig Jeffery, Managing Partner at Strategic Treasurer, to review the latest treasury news and developments. Topics of discussion include the following: 1:34 6 treasury management trends for 2025 10:01 The four defining traits for leading corporate treasury in 2030 18:30 Biggest story Other Resources: 2025 Treasury Trends Webinar - Strategic Treasurer Fraud Prevention Training - SecureTreasury Treasury 2030: Modernize or Risk Irrelevance - Citi

Dec 6, 2024 • 24min
Finance leaders rapidly advancing their AI knowledge - (TREASURY NEWS)
Pushpendra Mehta meets with Ben Poole, Writer at CTMfile, to review the latest treasury news and developments. Topics of discussion include the following: 1:33 Finance leaders rapidly advancing their AI knowledge 7:48 Euro area annual inflation up to 2.3% 12:45 Corporates change FX hedging due to US election outcome 16:32 Greenwashing risks rising as global regulatory scrutiny intensifies 21:45 Biggest story Other Resources: 2024 CFO Sentiments: How AI is Changing Finance Departments - Datarails Euro area annual inflation up to 2.3% - Eurostat Q3 Corporate Hedging Monitor - MillTechFX The Challenge of Greenwashing: An International Regulatory Overview - KPMG Law2024 EY Global Corporate Reporting Survey - EY

Nov 22, 2024 • 26min
Key technologies shaping corporate treasury and their influence on TMSs - (TREASURY NEWS)
Pushpendra Mehta meets with Paul Galloway, Senior Director, Advisory Services at Strategic Treasurer, to review the latest treasury news and developments. Topics of discussion include the following: 1:35 Key technologies shaping corporate treasury and their influence on TMSs 10:02 Swift’s 10 takeaways from Sibos 2024 15:46 Global economy forecast for solid growth in 2025 despite trade uncertainty 18:41 Digital wallets and open banking set to dominate payments in 2025 24:08 Top story Other Resources: Treasury Technology Analyst Report - Strategic Treasurer 10 takeaways from Swift at Sibos 2024 - Swift Macro Outlook 2025: Tailwinds (Probably) Trump Tariffs - Goldman Sachs Research (GSR)

Nov 9, 2024 • 28min
Cross-Border, Real-Time, and Digital Payments: Shaping the Future of Payments - (TREASURY NEWS)
Pushpendra Mehta meets with Dean M. Leavitt, Founder & CEO of Boost Payment Solutions, Inc., to review the latest payments and treasury news and developments. Topics of discussion include the following: 1:35 Cross-Border, Real-Time, and Digital Payments: Shaping the Future of Payments 10:56 A2A Payments to hit 186 billion transactions globally by 2029 15:16 4 Ways to Strategically Manage Cash Flow 20:53 Combatting payments fraud: Key insights every treasurer and CFO must know 25:29 Top Story Other Resources: 2024 Prime Time for Real-Time - ACI Worldwide with GlobalData Consumer A2A Payments - Juniper Research

Oct 25, 2024 • 28min
93% of treasurers say forecasting inaccuracies led to avoidable losses over the past two years - (TREASURY NEWS)
Pushpendra Mehta meets with Ben Poole, Writer at CTMfile, to review the latest treasury news and developments. Topics of discussion include the following: 1:41 93% of treasurers say forecasting inaccuracies led to avoidable losses over the past two years 8:21 Citi and Mastercard look to transform global cross-border payments 14:11 Swift to launch AI-powered fraud defence for cross-border payments 18:17 KYC streamlining and payments fraud protection: Keys to stronger corporate-bank ties 23:30 Top Story: Sibos and AFP conferences

Oct 11, 2024 • 33min
Record-high US national debt: A ticking time bomb likely to spark a debt crisis - (TREASURY NEWS)
Pushpendra Mehta meets with Paul Galloway, Senior Director, Advisory Services at Strategic Treasurer, to review the latest treasury news and developments. Topics of discussion include the following: Three critical aspects facing treasurers, CFOs, and CEOs – Now and Beyond The three critical aspects discussed in the above article are appended below. These have been covered as separate topics in the podcast. 2:13 Record-high US national debt: A ticking time bomb likely to spark a debt crisis 10:46 Key focus areas for treasury and finance in the coming years: Technology, payments, payments security, and risk management 19:17 Fed cut rates, yet corporate America faces higher interest expenses 26:10 Global banks to use Swift to trial live digital asset transactions from 2025 Other Resources: Federal Debt Data - FiscalData Interest Rates – The Economist

Sep 27, 2024 • 15min
6 tips for crafting compelling treasury and payments content - (TREASURY NEWS)
Pushpendra Mehta, Writer at CTMfile, reviews the latest treasury stories and developments. Topics of discussion include the following: Six tips for crafting compelling treasury and payments content More consecutive Fed rate cuts expected Clearwater Analytics launches corporate treasury benchmarking tool Banks believe they're eight months behind financial criminals Other Resources: Financial Crime Detection: What holds banks back? - RedCompass Labs

Sep 13, 2024 • 28min
Treasurers expect technology to consume most of their time in the coming years - (TREASURY NEWS)
Pushpendra Mehta meets with Craig Jeffery, Managing Partner at Strategic Treasurer, to review the latest treasury news and developments. Topics of discussion include the following: Treasurers expect technology to consume most of their time in the coming years Ecommerce merchants subjected to more payment fraud attacks than in previous years Global companies navigating from ‘China plus one’ to a ‘China plus many’ world GTreasury acquires CashAnalytics Resources: The Business of Treasury 2024 - ACT 2024 Global eCommerce Payments & Fraud Report – MRC, Visa, & Verifi The Geopolitics of Supply Chains - Lazard 2023 Treasury Technology Analyst Report – Strategic Treasurer
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