Two of America’s largest banks have recently sent notices to customers communicating the changes to their services. Multiple global banks are also in the middle of streamlining service lines as they bring additional countries into a centralized global billing system.
Over recent years, the banking community has made steady progress toward establishing standardized billing formats.
When treasurers are able to understand how they are using the bank’s services and the cost of their global cash management operations they become better customers. Accessibility to the service usage and fee information relieves many of the pressures that currently exist in the treasury banking partnership, writes Dan Gill, Senior Director, Redbridge Analytics.
Corporate case studies and presentations reflect growing adoption of the BSB. European and UK e-invoicing regulation addressing retail bank statements and could in future have an influence on wholesale providers and users. The vendor survey is completed! An initial view of the results are reported on in this issue of the newsletter. Surveys are in progress to assess corporations using BSB as well as banks providing bank billing statements in BSB format. Corporate practitioners attribute value to use of the BSB format.
Treasurers should be stressing the importance of discussing account analysis statements when looking at a new non-U.S. bank relationship, write Tamir Shafer and Stephan Ireland.
The Redbridge team is excited to be returning to the AFP Annual Conference in 2016 to present our insights on the most important developments, trends and opportunities within treasury management. Our delegation of industry experts will be available for meetings on current topics, including those related to treasury service & fee optimization, merchant cards, credit ratings, fundraising and debt structuring. As you plan your attendance for AFP 2016, be sure to make time to visit us at our booth, schedule a meeting, or attend one of our five thought leadership sessions.
Corporate treasurers must now become more vigilant than ever in monitoring the inventory of bank accounts, the services and volumes their banks are claiming were used, and the rates applied to these volumes, each and every month, write Daniel Gill and Tamir Shafer.
The most influential variable for optimal decision making is not based upon accurately utilizing and pricing all available information; rather, it is the inability to place any acceptable degree of confidence on the variable for uncertainty over future potential outcomes. Managing such uncertainty is precisely the challenge the corporate finance community faces after Brexit, writes Bob Callahan, Director at Redbridge DTA.
When thinking about the typical set of cash management services that banks provide to corporations, there is no reason that a bank should be treated differently from any other corporate vendor in order to be paid for its services, writes Tamir Shafer, Senior Director at Redbridge Debt & Treasury Advisory.
