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DBS has announced the pilot launch of DBS Treasury Tokens, a next-generation treasury and liquiditymanagement solution, in collaboration with Ant International. DBS Treasury Tokens enables Ant International to reduce the settlement of intra-group transactions from potentially days to seconds.
WorldFirst’s clients will be able to access payment schemes under SEPA in real-time and automate treasury payments to optimise their operations. In addition, BNP Paribas will explore innovations in tokenised deposits for global treasurymanagement with Ant International, through the latter’s Whale platform.
Singapore's DBS is collaborating with Ant International on a blockchain-based tokenization project for 24/7 intra-group treasury and liquiditymanagement.
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The new Embedded Finance segment deepens Ant International’s ecosystem by offering a rich array of FX, treasurymanagement, inclusive lending and other AI-powered fintech solutions to clients and partners across the other three main businesses.
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Planixs, a leader in real-time treasury and liquiditymanagement solutions, is excited to announce the renewal of its partnership with prominent international bank, FirstBank UK as it reinforces Planixs as a trusted provider of treasurymanagement solutions.
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One thing is customer service, but the other is liquiditymanagement or cash flow forecasting, and that's new to a lot of organizations.”. “It’s not just technical connectivity that financial service executives need to think about as their business or their FI moves to 24/7,” she said.
“This is a fairly significant cost for businesses, particularly in terms of the treasurymanagement point of view. There are also the knock-on costs a business incurs as a result of the complexity of those payments, which means they tend to require additional oversight and checks by executives within a company.
As Andreas Lutz, CEO of Fides Treasury Services explained to PYMNTS in a recent interview, the challenges associated with managing multiple bank accounts — and opportunities lost when it is done manually — are vast. Some treasury analysts still spend fully half their time working with massive spreadsheets,” he said.
Citi RTF is launching as part of the bank’s real-time treasury suite of solutions for corporate clients and is now available in Australia, Hong Kong, and the U.K. “With the proliferation of instant payments and evolving business models, treasuries must be able to support rapidly growing, 24/7 cash flows. .
WorldFirst’s clients will gain access to payment schemes under SEPA in real-time and automate treasury payments to optimise their operations. Additionally, we are keen to foster innovation with such a key player to develop tomorrow’s treasurymanagement standards.”
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Reducing the cost of payments becomes imperative A confluence of factors from high interest rates to volatile credit markets are driving up the cost of payments and making liquiditymanagement ever more challenging. Compliance controls, which are especially high for international payments, further increase costs.
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New research from Asset Benchmark Research suggests ties with regulators and even reputation are not the number one priority for corporate treasurers looking for a cash management provider. Treasury leaders should not assume that others are connecting the dots and reading between the lines.”.
Banks’ adoption of these services is not necessarily easy: They must identify use-cases for a service, adjust its treasurymanagement operations, and adjust the way it both executes outbound payments and credits incoming ones to its corporate customers.
Nearly three-quarters of the companies surveyed by iGTB said that they experience a lack of integration of their treasurymanagement or ERP systems with the banking solutions offered by their banks — a statistic Cantor deemed “outrageous.”. Why is everybody saying that liquidity [management] is not for the little guys?
This demonstrates how blockchain can support evolving treasury and liquidity needs. With the corporate treasury function becoming increasingly strategic and a key driver of a business’ bottom-line, this demonstration of how blockchain can help global businesses better meet their evolving treasury and liquidity needs is very timely.”
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