Citi’s Online Academy for Corporate and Public Sectors in Europe, Middle East and Africa
Previous Webinars Archive 2007
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Building Blocks for a 21st Century Treasury
11 December 2007
Companies have invested substantially in Treasury Management Systems and ERPs in the drive toward standardisation and centralised corporate treasuries. Having reaped the first fruits from these investments, including consolidation of banking relationships, and standardisation of financial processes to improve control and efficiencies, companies are seeking greater visibility of their global liquidity and more actionable analytics to support better decision making. Furthermore, as the trend towards standardisation continues Corporates are increasingly looking for standardisation of connectivity to banks to drive cost efficiencies.
This session co-presented by SWIFT, will look at the trends that are driving the next wave of optimisations and efficiencies to impact corporate treasuries and FSSCs, focusing on the role of SWIFT and ISO 20022 XML in this space, and the emerging development of digital identity solutions.
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Prepaid solutions: Increasing the impact of payments
15 November 2007
Corporates and Public Sector agencies submit millions of payments a day to drive behaviour: Incentive payments to motivate consumers to buy more, increase usage or 'refer a friend'; workforce payments to motivate staff to sell more reward good behaviour; Public sector agencies who process tax credits or subsidies intended to recompense businesses and individuals. But how effective exactly are these payments in reaching their objective? The answer is often: "not very".
This webinar explores how modern web-based communication portals combined with existing card payment technology can replace cheques, vouchers, cash and sometimes EFT payments. In the process this will not only reduce costs but significantly increase the impact of the payment whilst extending and improving the payer-payee relationship beyond it.
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Beating the credit crunch: unlocking internal liquidity
25 October 2007
This webinar explores important methods for unlocking liquidity trapped in your company's local working capital cycles - and allocating that liquidity to its best use across the firm, globally. Learn how to mobilise and optimise your company's liquidity, reduce debt, and improve risk-adjusted yields on corporate cash.
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Trends in Receivables
12 September 2007
This Webinar focused on the main changes that have impacted the domain of Receivables in the past 10 years. Learn about the developments that have revolutionized this area: from cash based/cheques payments to electronic payments, from decentralised systems to shared services centres, from paper based bills to e-invoicing etc.
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Doing Business in China
28 June 2007
Asia continues to be an exciting region for companies – its role as a manufacturer centre to the world, the infrastructure growth, changing regulatory environment, attractiveness of its capital markets, and growth of domestic economies. Companies doing business in China are looking to be more effective and efficient in their treasury processes, and seeking optimal treasury solutions as they take advantage of one of the highest growth regions in the world.
This webinar covered:
Latest regulatory changes from key markets in China
Trends in corporate treasury in China
Best Practices: Case Studies
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Faster Payments
7 June 2007
Citi is one of the founder member banks of Faster Payments, the new UK clearing scheme scheduled to launch in November 2007. The introduction of Faster Payments will be a revolutionary change to the way businesses and individuals pay, allowing for 24 x 7 near real time payments. The funds will become available to beneficiaries in less than two hours after the payer has successfully originated the transaction.
In the session, we will review why this initiative started, the common core proposition of the service and how Citi will be able to support your varying sterling payment needs.
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Trends for Efficiency in Cash and Treasury Processes
9 May 2007
"Do more with less" has increasingly become the mantra for global treasuries. The need to become more strategically aligned with business partners across the organisation is constantly hampered by the business as usual, mundane tasks of process management and exception handling. Day-to-day pressures also limit the time available for more strategic treasury activity such as optimisation of in-house bank structures and integration with shared service centres. Other issues such as staff retention and obtaining investment for process and technology improvement can be demanding.
In this session we reviewed themes such as the attractiveness of an independent review of treasury processes and the opportunity to benchmark expenses, understanding the risks and rewards of re-engineering and re-designing process flows and outsourcing trends.
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Optimising global cash resources
4 April 2007
As the treasury's remit widens to encompass working capital management and reaches deeper into business units across the globe, timely access to detailed cash information has never been more important. Automation of information flows and integration of banks' systems with ERP systems and treasury work stations are key priorities; as is the use of common communication standards that guarantee interoperability, thus enabling choice based on breadth of product and quality of client service.
Spanning departments and geographies, the treasury's information infrastructure must deliver:
*Visibility of treasury related financial information to support enterprise liquidity and risk management activities.
*Control over liquidity and risk management related workflows. Ability to monitor the compliance with treasury policies throughout the enterprise.
*Optimisation -appropriate use of traditional banking products for collecting liquidity, hedging exposures, investing surpluses and funding to meet short, medium and long-term needs.
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EU Harmonisation - Trends for globalisation in treasury management
1 March 2007
Globalisation of business has correspondingly increased demands on corporate treasuries to optimise cash, liquidity and risk management over an expanding set of currencies and locales. In this session, we will review some of the latest market trends, major evolutions in financial and banking environments, such as SEPA, that is creating new opportunities, and a best practices-based approach to taking advantage of these opportunities
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EU Harmonisation: Responding to the Challenges of SEPA
1 February 2007
A successful SEPA implementation requires diligent planning. Not just for banks, but also for Corporates and Public Authorities that want to reap the benefits that SEPA has to offer. As we enter the final 12 months before the launch of SEPA on 1/1/2008, this seminar will explored the background to the initiative, its impact on the financial supply chain and how clients should be responding to the challenges that SEPA will bring.
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Innovation in Trade Finance
13 December 2006
The inaugural Citi's Trade University seminar entitled "Innovation in Trade Finance." - a program part of Citi's Online Academy for Corporate and Public Sectors focused on identifying the key trends in the effective management of financial supply chains and the deployment of trade finance solutions to improve working capital and overall corporate financial performance.
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