Achieve Your Treasury Goals

An agile banking partner in a real-time world, Citi combines the reach of its expansive global network with innovative digital solutions to empower global business and transform the client experience. Liquidity Management Services help clients leverage the latest technologies on a global scale to optimize liquidity, manage risk and minimize debt.

OPTIMIZE LIQUIDITY

Your business needs the right amount of cash in the right place at the right time, to ensure your global operations are funded consistently.

Fund your business

Automatically fund your subsidiaries' operating needs based on when, where and how much cash is needed

Automatically fund your local subsidiaries from centralized treasury accounts, based on set funding targets, with Citi Target Balancing Accounts. Track intercompany loan positions and transfer pricing with a streamlined, integrated reconciliation process. Optimize the value of your cash by using real-time sweep transactions to move funds late in the day to cover overdraft positions created by local payment activity.

With Citi Cross-Currency Sweeps, minimize the use of local, non-functional currency to automate the funding of local currency payments from a central functional currency account.

Leverage Virtual Accounts to provide cash funding for on-behalf-of (OBO) treasury payments. Comprehensive capabilities, including intercompany loan tracking, deliver a fully streamlined process.

Use Liquidity Sharing to allow intercompany funding of payment obligations. Liquidity Sharing clears payments more efficiently using cash pools instead of funds from individual accounts.

Solutions

  • Target Balancing
  • Cross-Currency Sweeps
  • Citi Virtual Accounts
  • Liquidity Sharing

Concentrate cash

Funnel cash into centralized accounts to invest cash more effectively and minimize overdrafts.

Increase control over your cash and its deployment with Target Balancing and Multi-bank Target Balancing, which automatically concentrates cash across multiple banks and transfers it into your Citi account for greater visibility and control of funds.

Leverage Single-Currency to minimize overdraft costs and fund operating obligations. In addition, use Multi-Currency Notional Pools and Cross-Currency Sweeps to optimize currency management through greater control and centralization.

Rationalize bank account structure and increase efficiencies with Virtual Accounts, which automatically concentrate cash in centralized Virtual Account headers while virtually segregating cash into separate accounts for payment and collection activities and reporting.

Solutions

  • Target Balancing
  • Multi-bank Target Balancing
  • Notional Pooling
  • Cross-Currency Sweeps
  • Citi Virtual Accounts

Get real-time visibility

Design a cash forecast that provides real-time cash status information and analytics for strategic decision making.

Digitized and fully automated, CitiDirect BE® Cash Concentration provides 24/7 online access to global views of pooling structures that include multi-bank target balancing, notional pooling, target balance accounts and customized liquidity structures. In just a few clicks, you can change how cash pools operate, or update parameters such as transfer pricing and inter-account lending limits.

Powerful reporting and analytics tools in CitiDirect BE deliver historical and real-time information on account structures across your entire organization, providing critical visibility into your cash positions.

CitiDirect BE Liquidity Manager provides full transparency through enterprise-wide visibility of global financial information, aggregated within a single service to help you manage liquidity and risk more effectively.

Solutions

  • CitiDirect BE® Cash Concentration
  • CitiDirect BE® Reports
  • CitiDirect BE® Liquidity Manager
  • CitiConnect® APIs
  • CitiConnect® for Files

MAXIMIZE RETURNS

Leverage technology to maximize returns and minimize costs globally with innovative and fully automated treasury solutions.

Unlock trapped cash

Convert available liquidity into a functional currency to mobilize cash when and where it’s needed.

Reduce your FX exposure and mobilize cash in the right amount and currency while making liquidity deployment more efficient and transparent with Citi’s Cross-Currency Sweeps. A variety of sweep features include frequency, amount, and sweep conditions, providing the control you need to optimize investment and working capital strategies.

Present in 98 markets and transacting in 144 currencies, Citi leverages its local expertise in markets across its network to help companies understand local regulatory requirements for the cross-border movement of funds.

Solution

  • Cross-Currency Sweeps

Increase yields

Optimize interest yields on investments and earn competitive rates on operational deposits and cash balances.

Citi® Interest Optimization (CIO) delivers a higher yield by notionally aggregating your Citi balances across countries, currencies and accounts. CIO can factor in balances from different deposit structures such as non-interest bearing accounts, interest bearing accounts, investment sweeps and earning credits rate accounts. CIO achieves higher interest rate efficiency on cash across various jurisdictions.

Time Deposits offer the benefit of a fixed-rate deposit that generally delivers higher yields than overnight automated deposits. Investment options include maturities from overnight to five years, at competitive rates. With automatically extending maturities, Minimum Maturity Time Deposits eliminate the operational burden of reinvesting maturing funds, while offering enhanced yields relative to time deposits of equivalent maturities.

Citi Earnings Credit Rate accounts earn soft-dollar credits that can be used to offset local or global Citi transaction fees. Organizations can earn competitive rates on idle cash and reduce expenses, unlock trapped cash and distribute credits across global positions to optimize operating performance.

Solutions

  • Citi® Interest Optimization
  • Fixed Deposits
  • Citi® Earnings Credit Rate

Manage cash

Leverage Citi’s global investment infrastructure to deploy cash across a broad range of short-term investments.

A global investment portal, Citibank Online Investments (OLI) offers a wide variety of short-term investment options in over 30 countries and 18 currencies.

OLI for Money Market Funds

Invest in a diversified portfolio of high-quality, short-term instruments.

  • Access to over 100 funds
  • Real-time visibility into consolidated exposures across your portfolio
  • STP trade execution and settlement

OLI for Time Deposits

Invest surplus cash in Time Deposits across multiple currencies and tenors, all online from a single application.

  • View rates, initiate trades and receive immediate trade confirmation
  • Automated settlement to your Citi account

Citi’s Liquidity and Investment Desks provide a central point of contact to facilitate investment transactions in every major region: NAM, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC. Citi investment experts offer personalized service, real-time market updates and trade execution support. Regional desks in New York, Dublin and Singapore are also supplemented by local desks in over 20 countries.

Linked to your liquidity structure, Citi's Automated Investments ensure that your balances are optimally invested every day.

  • Interest bearing accounts: Account balances earn attractive interest rates based on a key market rate.
  • Overnight sweep investments: End-of-day investments linked to your operating account ensure full investment of end-of-day liquidity.
  • Money market funds: Intraday investments prior to the fund cut-off times offer competitive yields and the highest investment quality.

Citi’s Interest Bearing Demand Deposit Accounts provides attractive returns on balances, paying competitive overnight rates. Large accounts may be coupled with Citi’s bracketing feature to provide clients with greater control on their investment yield.

Solutions

  • Citibank Online Investments for Money Market Funds
  • Citibank Online Investments for Time Deposits
  • Liquidity Desks
  • Automated Investments
  • Interest Bearing Accounts

INCREASE EFFICIENCY

Achieve operational efficiency and excellence, and manage risk strategically with best-in-class digital solutions.

Manage operational risks

From biometric authentication to benchmarking treasury practices, Citi leverages the latest technologies to mitigate risk.

Biometric authentication of a face or fingerprint scan enhances CitiDirect BE® login security while providing a faster, more convenient login experience.

Solutions

  • CitiDirect BE®

Maintain regulatory compliance

Present in more than 100 markets, Citi provides expert guidance on local regulations that impact your business.

As new technologies emerge and new regulations are introduced, Citi can offer strategic insights tailored to the needs of your business model. Our Treasury Advisory Group can enhance your competitive advantage with expert advice on centralization structures, treasury diagnostics and benchmarking, working capital optimization, and industry best practices.

The global regulatory environment is becoming more complex, with new tax initiatives and reporting standards adopted by many of the countries in which Citi TTS does business. To help our clients understand and comply with these new initiatives in a timely and accurate way, we’ve provided an online resource with helpful tools, information, forms and FAQs.

Rationalize bank account structure and increase efficiencies with Virtual Accounts, which automatically concentrate cash in centralized Virtual Account headers while virtually segregating cash into separate accounts for payment and collection activities and reporting.

Solutions

  • Citi Treasury Advisory Group
  • Citi Global Tax Initiatives/Regulations

Driving innovation and transformation

Harnessing the power of innovation, Citi is putting technology to work for business and transforming the treasury experience.

As new technologies emerge and new regulations are introduced, Citi can offer strategic insights tailored to the needs of your business model. Our Treasury Advisory Group can enhance your competitive advantage with expert advice on centralization structures, treasury diagnostics and benchmarking, working capital optimization, and industry best practices.

Citi’s Client Relationship Insights provides data-rich analytics on treasury and commercial flows to predict future changes in treasury activities and accelerate adoption of innovation in working capital management.

Extending from Dublin to London, Singapore and Israel, Citi’s global network of Innovation Labs conducts rapid research, experimentation and prototyping of next-generation solutions that harness technologies such as AI and machine learning to resolve business challenges and elevate the client experience.

Solutions

  • Client Relationship Insights
  • Citi Innovation Labs
  • Citi Treasury Advisory Group
  • Treasury Diagnostics