Redbridge Uncovers Excessive Forex Fees Banks Charge Corporate Clients
Redbridge extends its analysis of bank fees into additional cash management services that now includes forex transactions.
The Importance of Banking Visibility for Payroll Processors
Payroll processors need a strong banking relationship to contribute to their overall financial health and success. Banking visibility plays a key role in maintaining not only the cash flow on-hand, but understanding the dynamics of various services that contribute to the day-to-day efficiency of the underlying Treasury Department roles.
Make a Strategic Shift from Lockbox to ACH Payments
A growing number of businesses are transitioning from traditional Lockbox payments to Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments to streamline their payment operations. This strategic shift not only optimizes transaction speed and accuracy but also significantly enhances overall financial management. At Redbridge, we’ve helped many companies make the switch and have identified the best ways to streamline the process.
From Oversight to Insight: How Treasurers Are Winning with Bank Fee Analysis Software
Treasurers are at the forefront of financial management, juggling a myriad of tasks that span from ensuring liquidity to assessing financial risks and optimizing capital for future growth. This is not just routine work; it is a quest for fiscal responsibility in a world where every penny counts. That said, amid the hustle of finance management, a critical challenge often goes unnoticed: bank fee analysis
Increasing Treasury Returns in a High Interest Rate Environment
High interest rate environments have created opportunities for companies to significantly increase their treasury revenues through investable balances while reducing bank fees from bank cash balance offsets. As such, banks are pushing their clients to invest their cash balances in money market funds, but alternative investment vehicles may offer more optimal returns on investment.
Why Treasurers Can’t Ignore the New ISO 20022 Standard
Our treasury consulting team recently invited six vendors: Cegid, Diapason, FIS, Kyriba, Neofi, and Sage to a workshop focused on the migration to ISO 20022. At this event, they sat down with our experts, Iris Rousselière and Jéromine Adler and discussed their thoughts on this transition as well as how companies can benefit from it.
“How companies can maximize the interest they earn on their cash deposits”
The recent banking turmoil reminds everyone just how important it is to be managing counter party risk. This disarray also demonstrates the strategic nature of deposits for financial institutions. According to Alexandre Bousquenaud, one of the key objectives treasurers should focus on in this environment is negotiating their yield on cash balances to take advantage of ongoing monetary tightening.
The New ISO 20022 Timeline
Initially scheduled for the end of November 2022, the start of banks’ migration to the ISO 20022 standard for payments has been postponed by a few months. Rather than just being something new to comply with, the standard will enable banks to provide new services to businesses thanks to the enriched information that this payment format involves, and there will also be big benefits for corporate. Here’s what we found out about ISO 20022 during SIBOS in Amsterdam last October.