Taming Treasury Technology

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Overview
Agenda

As a practitioner or supplier, deepen your understanding of treasury technology and its potential to drive success.

Led by Nicholas Franck, a seasoned professional with over 30 years of experience in treasury, banking, and consulting, this advanced-level course will equip you with the skills to design and implement a technology strategy for the treasury function. Explore the latest innovations in SaaS, APIs, RPA, AI/ML and more, and learn how to leverage them to minimize processing time and focus on value-adding activities.

Avoid the pitfalls of poorly understood or implemented technology and gain the insights to identify and solve company needs for maximum impact.

This virtual format will allow for participants to apply some of the learnings in between each session.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the course, the attendees will:
- Have a framework for identifying technology needs and constraints
- Be able to structure a holistic approach from technology selection to implementation and beyond
- Know who needs to be involved and what roles these should have
- Have an overview of existing and new technologies relevant to the Treasury department, including: Treasury management systems (TMSs), market information providers, dealing platforms, bank connectivity for straight-through-processing, wallets, advanced cash forecasting, analytics packages and management dashboards, use of fintechs for new payment methods, dynamic supply chain financing and investing, KYC and regulatory reporting, ESG and more, crypto- and other digital currencies, decentralised Finance (DeFi)
- Some of the underlying enabling infrastructure and technologies: ERP, TMS & other systems integration; APIs; Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) & On-Premise; Blockchain; Robotic process automation (RPA);Artificial intelligence & machine learning (AI/ML); Data cleansing/wrangling; ‘Citizen developer’ Low code/No code applications; (Anything)-as-a-Service (XaaS); Web 3.0
Key benefits
Attendees will:
- Become aware that there are solutions, or can be solutions to any of their and their companies’ pain points
- Be able to establish a strategy for their functions and companies on what to do, when and how
- Be more likely to implement effectively
- Through the display of technology knowledge and fact-based proposals, gain credibility with their non-treasury management and peers
Who should attend?
- Mid- to senior-level executives who want/need to know about, at a high level, the different treasury technologies available, the benefits they bring, how they relate and what challenges need to be overcome in order to implement and maintain them successfully.
- Executives who want to understand the consequences to their units of new technologies already being rolled out enterprise-wide.
- Executives at all levels who want to understand the current status and future directions in treasury technology
- Executives at all levels working on a treasury technology policy
- Professionals from IT and other non-treasury functions whose remit includes supporting treasury and who need an overview of the treasury technology space and the changes happening in it
Why train with EuroFinance
- Real world treasury training
  Leave with skills and techniques that you can immediately apply when you get back to the office.
- Unrivalled knowledge of current best practice
  We talk to treasurers on a daily basis and know what matters most to the profession.
- Expert tutors
  We have secured the services of the leading tutors in the profession with both banking knowledge and corporate expertise to give you the best all-round training available.
- Truly global
  We run treasury events all around the world and attract a very international audience.
- Practical teaching method
  Our courses aren’t just theory, we use real-life case studies and group exercises to illustrate each learning point

Agenda

Day 1
- 9.00am
  Introduction and collection of the participants’ learning wishes
- 09.15am
  A general introduction to treasury technology
  - Treasury activities and where different technologies fit in
- 09:45
  Vapourware and beneficial technology – The clients’ role
  - Recognising the risks of data and cognitive overload and issues with current purchasing methodologies
  - The importance of identifying pain points precisely
  - Having a clear strategy
  - Practical implementation methods and stakeholder buy-in
- 10.15am
  The pace of change in today’s technology landscape and how to handle it
  - Applying 80:20 and ‘No blame’ project shifts in all aspects of project planning
- 10.45
  Morning break
- 11.15
  Review of established treasury technologies and infrastructure requirements
  - On-premise TMSs
  - Market information providers
  - Dealing platforms
  - Cards and payments
  - Systems integration
  - Legacy reporting capabilities
  - Excel
- 12.00
  Historical issues with the above
  - No ‘perfect fit vs requirements
  - The issues of manual work
  - Difficulty of managing change
  - Silo-based technology
  - Extensive use of IT needed both upfront and over time
  - Accelerating consolidation of suppliers
- 12.30
  New technologies and how they address the issues
  - SaaS
  - Diversification of information providers
  - APIs in systems integration
  - Wallets
  - Enterprise-wide provision of and access to data (data lakes and data warehouses)
  - Analytics platforms and dashboards (‘Super’ Excel, Power BI, Tableau and more)
  - Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
- 13.15
  Lunch
- 14.00
  A framework for planning new technology introduction
  - - Avoiding the Tower of Babel – Importance of effective communication Bottom-Up and Diagonally [e.g., with other functions] as well as Top-Down to identify issues correctly and who needs to be involved, how, and during what steps
    - Understanding XaaS and the acceleration of software development – Importance of keeping in touch with IT infrastructure and software-writing environmental changes
    - Finalising issues and their prioritisation
    - Creating a business case
    - Shortlisting providers – Established providers and / versus new challengers – Strengths and weaknesses of each
    - Understanding resource availability for new project implementation and tailoring a change approach aligned with these and the expected useful life of the technology
      
      Early-adopter versus laggard preferences
      
      Enterprise-wide vs silo only change
      
      Small-step / partial solution versus big step / complete solution change
      
      Data cleansing/ wrangling requirements – upfront and ongoing; order of implementation – front office or back office first; implementation methods – agile vs waterfall; 80:20 and ‘No blame’ project shift planning; Planning for the discovery of new, better technologies and budget constraints –Flexible 60:40 mix-and-match vs 80:20 planning)
      
      Stakeholder buy-in, in writing
      
      Provider selection
      
      Stakeholder buy-in, in writing (Again!)
      
      Implementation
      
      Continuous review (Bottom Up, Diagonally, Top-Down)
- 15.30
  Afternoon Break
- 16.00
  Group exercise – Adapting the technology introduction framework to specific business types
- 17.30
  Close of Day 1
Day 2
- 9.00am
  Recap & questions relating to Day 1
- 09.15
  Fintechs and the explosion of niche applications
  - New payment methods
  - Dynamic supply chain financing and investing
  - KYC
  - RegTech
  - Cybersecurity
  - ESG and more
  - Stages of an entrepreneurial startup and increasing ease of application creation and funding – Relevance of this to Treasurers
  - Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning and its immediate applications
  - Distributed Ledger Technology/Blockchain and immediate applications
  - Bitcoin, Digital currencies and Central Bank Digital Currencies
  - Decentralised Finance (DeFi))
- 10.45
  Morning break
- 11.00
  Near-term trends
  - More of all of the previous applications, improved
  - The changing role of IT & support
  - Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  - Integrated multi-functional AI/ML
  - Citizen developers and low code/no code; New skills needed in Treasury; Lack of availability of ‘true’ data scientists – ‘Call to Arms’ – Train Your Own!
- 13.00
  Lunch break
- 14.00
  Group exercise – Designing the new treasury
  - People
  - Processes
  - Infrastructure
- 15.30
  Afternoon break
- 15.45
  Discussion – Changing to the new treasury – Change management considerations
  - Attendees will design a standardised future treasury that they can take home with them, compare against their existing operations and have the trainers’ and attendees’ thoughts on how to achieve the change
- 17.00
  Summary, participants’ questions and comments
- 17.30
  End of the day and distribution of certificates

Tutor

Nicholas Franck

EuroFinance Tutor EuroFinance

Nicholas (‘Nick’) Franck has worked 30+ years in corporate treasury, trading, transaction banking, and treasury consultancy: 19 years in multi-industry corporates (IBM, International SOS, Agility Logistics and Oriflame Cosmetics;) 7 years in banks (Merrill Lynch and Chase Manhattan;) 6 years in treasury consultancy (CFO Solutions.) In these companies, his work has been mainly on startups and change. He has worked in and advised on technology, processes, outsourcing, treasury functions & treasury centres, worldwide. His expertise covers cash, liquidity, working capital, risk management, TMS and other systems, policy and process change within a business’s broader finance and commercial context. His in-depth knowledge makes him a versatile, convincing and compelling trainer.

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