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Treasury Management Challenges: Insights and Solutions

Every company has a treasury department consisting of a CFO, financial staff, and technical experts to optimize cash flow management and working capital to rein in financial risks. Established markets are witnessing rapidly increasing economic activities owing to fluctuations in currency, changes in FX rates, and other challenges. This necessitates treasury departments to be well-equipped in terms of treasury efficiency, effective decision-making, and scalability to navigate and address any hardships that may arise treasury departments to be well-equipped to navigate and address any hardships that may arise. Discover how treasury management can help you.

What are the insights for Treasury Management?
As companies branch out to various markets, treasury departments need help navigating varied banking protocols and diverse languages, operating model and infrastructure to streamline their activities, portfolios, and risk management. It is imperative for corporates to have secure connections with custodians and counterparties, effective monitoring of cash, and risk management plans to support growth and relish competitive advantage.
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What are the major challenges faced by the treasury department, and how does IMS Treasury resolve them?

The treasury management department plays a crucial role in the organization by overseeing the planning, organizing, and control of financial resources. Here are some of the challenges companies can face in treasury management:

Liquidity Management

To run an agile corporate treasury team, you always look for your financial obligations involving assessing short- and long-term commitments to meet cash in- and outflows with a scrutinized eye on working capital.
The Challenges

The Challenges

Lack of visibility and control of liquidity.

The Solution

The Solution

IMS Treasury aids corporates in meeting their obligations with ‘Real-Time' data on liquidity and funding. Our certified connections with banks and custodians and standardized processes to manage cash positions and balances help treasurers easily identify liquidity threats and promptly take requisite actions.

Treasury Management & Money movement:

Real-time updates on money transfers and settlements play a crucial role in ensuring effective monitoring of a corporate’s money movement. Additionally, maintaining a fully reconciled view of treasury accounts is imperative for assessing daily cash positions accurately.
The Challenges

The Challenges

The need for more visibility into money movement arises from managing multiple diverse connectivities and the incapacity to support their varied formats and protocols. The utilization of multiple systems to handle the money movement and fund management activities of a treasury leads to inefficiencies in the monitoring and reconciliation processes.

The Solution

The Solution

IMS Treasury facilitates the creation of payment messages adhering to all your counterparty or custodian's preferred protocols and messaging standards and displays real-time updates on the money being moved. The platform accommodates a wide range of industry-standard formats, including MT, MX, Excel, XML, and proprietary formats of Tier-1 Custodians, while supporting various protocols such as APIs, MQ Series, Webservices, and sFTP. Additionally, IMS Treasury offers integration capabilities with Order Management Systems (OMS), internal services, and external entities, enabling the automation of end-to-end money transfer workflows.

Trade Process Integration in Treasury Management:

Treasures also manage trade finance, meaning the trade happening between companies and other third parties, and ensuring limited risk while trading globally. However, several parties get involved in this trading, from banks, insurers, importers, and trade finance companies, making this process even more laborious.
The Challenges

The Challenges

Fragile connectivity between branch networks, the central treasury department, and core banking systems presents a distinct challenge in effective financial management.

The Solution

The Solution

IMS Treasury encompasses the entire range of treasury operations, including money transfers against underlying settlement instructions. It seamlessly integrates with internal and external systems through the systems’ preferred protocols, ensuring a straightforward and unified implementation under one roof.

Among the corporate treasurers we collaborated with, over 80% expressed that the incorporation of IMS Treasury into their existing solutions has led to a notable increase in the efficiency of cash management and forecasting processes.

Is your treasury department working on the right track?

IMS Treasury is a modular cloud-native solution that covers the operational requirements of an advanced treasury, with modern architecture and deep reengineering focused on the final user. We specialize in grasping the essential business drivers crucial for your system’s success and translating those requirements into the architecture characteristics needed to meet your specific needs. Our treasury management system provides enhanced visibility and control over various aspects, including
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