Robo Treasury: Positives and Pitfalls

With 2019 firmly underway, Jim Fuell, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, tackles some of the most important strategic challenges facing corporate treasurers over the coming months, including regulatory reform, the outlook for cash investors and rising interest rates.

The combination of better, increasingly real-time data and easier, more bespoke ways of exchanging this data, has an alchemic effect. Increasingly, treasurers’ role becomes less one of transaction execution and more one of analysis to drive value-added decision-making.

Technologies such as artificial intelligence have the potential to make it easier for treasurers to gain visibility and control over their cash. But simply investing in these technologies is not enough to achieve working capital efficiencies.

When James Kelly is recruiting for his team, he looks for people who can 'defend against risk, control the agenda and pounce on opportunities.' And his top tip for new finance professionals is to capitalise on their fresh perspective.

There are a number of ways in which treasurers can support their organisation’s ESG goals, and embed them into their daily processes.