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Transforming Treasury through Issue 280 Innovation Introducing Our 2020 Award Winners n A Treasurer’s Guide to Data Analytics n Building a Digital Armoury for 2021 CONTENTS REGULARS Leader 2 AWARDS Embracing Dynamic Supplier Finance to Support Corporate Introducing the Winners Eleanor Hill, Editor Supply Chains Colin Sharp, C2FO Banks and Vendors Take 6 In three articles the Editor describes how Treasury to New Heights the winners of our Awards for Excellence, Peope in Focus 52 2020, impressed the judges in the categories 12 Pandemic Powerhouses of Banks and Vendors, Corporates and – for Executive Interview 54 organisations putting ESG issues at the heart Come Together: Co-creation as a Celebrating a Sustainable 20 of their corporate treasury function – our Source of Practical Innovation Future Treasury4Good Awards. Pierre Fersztand, BNP Paribas SPECIAL REPORT INSIGHT Innovation: Delivering Real The Resilient Treasurer: Building a A Life-Changing Digital 23 Value in New Ways 26 Digital Armoury for 2021 42 Treasury Transformation: Eleanor Hill, Editor Diane S. Reyes, Karen Gilhooly, Carlos Supporting Gavi’s Mission Gonzalez Fillad, Brian McKenney and Tammy Petro, Global Lead for Wholesale Assietou Sylla Diouf, Gavi, Aniket Stefan Hardy, HSBC Kulkarni, PwC and Christian Payments Innovation and Fintech Mnich, SAP Engagement at J.P. Morgan, talks to the Activate Your Liquidity to Manage Editor about the real technology experience 32 Treasury Challenges in the New and the bank’s partnership with TMI’s A Treasurer’s Guide to Data Normal 46 Analytics: In and Beyond Innovation Hub. Jean Luc Robert, Boris Lipiainen and Samuel Guillon, Kyriba Treasury Dino Nicolaides and Guillaume Smart Treasury: 6 Steps to Building Roudeau, Redbridge Debt & Treasury Advisory and Joan Gelpi, Bank of 36 a Cutting-Edge Treasury, Today America and Michael Aandahl, Sunday Domingo and Byron Gardiner, Ingka Group Standard Chartered Giving L’Oréal’s Beneficiaries ISO 20022: What Is It and Why 50 39 Visibility on Incoming Payments Is It So Important? 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TMI | ISSUE 280 1 LEADER Embracing Dynamic Supplier Finance to Support Corporate Supply Chains By Colin Sharp, Senior Vice President EMEA, C2FO he Covid-19 pandemic The pandemic has shone a spotlight on to of funding options in 2020, including highlighted the importance of the topic of supply chain finance (SCF). traditional banking, asset-backed loans, T offering financial support to Demand for working capital has been at factoring and a steady uptake of SCF corporate supply chains, but the Global unprecedented levels for all companies, programmes. However, the cost of such Supply Chain Finance Forum has also but this is particularly true for small and short-term liquidity has been rising noted how the availability and the cost of medium-sized businesses (SMEs), where traditional payable finance programmes access to capital can be challenging and are still a challenge for many SMEs. expensive at the best of times. Ethical and inclusive supply chain The results from a recent C2FO finance is the only way to sustainably worldwide survey to more than 8,000 help supply chains for the long-term SMEs, highlighted a rush to a wide range good of all participants. 2 TMI | ISSUE 280 LEADER due to high demand and uncertain Participants in the auto industry were also payment terms persist. A solution such economic conditions, access for SMEs is able to reboot after the shutdown with as DCF solves this by enabling treasurers often challenging. liquidity via C2FO. to offer dynamic payment terms to their In addition, different sectors have We also see that DSF will be a force customers. In turn, this empowers them experienced varying levels of impact. for good to support the environmental, to avoid a structural or wholesale payment On the one hand, industries such as social and governance (ESG) initiatives terms extension, and instead provide their medical supplies, grocery retail, and of our customers. Inclusive finance can customers with what they need in terms of white goods have seen spikes in demand be used to correctly incentivise suppliers working capital. Consequently, this helps and have welcomed the ability of SCF to to adopt, and fund, change towards more them to support sales teams to win more support the increased working capital sustainable practices, and reduce the business, and to more effectively support needs of their supply chain in order to carbon footprint in their operations. A their channel/distribution customers. n support the increased business volumes. supplier scorecard measuring carbon But on the other hand, suppliers in reduction, for example, can be linked to industries with significant downturns the price of funding via SCF, meaning have been supported during tough times that suppliers know that when they due to the available cash flows from SCF. improve their performance against Again, this is particularly true in the SME sustainability targets then they can access segment where average cash reserves tend cheaper liquidity. to be less than 30 days. Customer financing Promoting ethical SCF Appetite for solutions such as Dynamic Appetite for The concept of altering payment terms in Customer Financing (DCF) is also return for access to lower-cost finance has growing exponentially. Treasurers have solutions such been around for some time and, where it the opportunity to lay down a foundation as Dynamic suits both parties, is an effective solution. for more dynamic business terms using However, when payment terms are providers such as C2FO. As a result, they Customer pushed