What is Group Treasury Services Optimisation Platform ?


Group Treasury Services Optimisation Platform was the brainchild of the firms’ Head of Strategy alongside our largest investor who having worked at the sell side of all the largest Global Investment Banks ranging from Deutsche Bank, UBS and JPMorgan and having consulted with large to medium sized Corporate Groups regarding optimising their corporate treasury functions the one obvious stand out point was that the banks were not incentivised to provide their clients with the tools to get a 360 view across the Groups businesses and this lack of transparency was a major driver towards the banks revenues.

A consistent theme across the board at every bank was the lack of transparency on execution services provided to clients and Group Companies by their very nature had a disparate mixed bag of multi-currency treasury services providers at a company level. This was particularly evident within the FX Execution side of the business.

This platform empowers the Group Chief Financial Officer and Head of Treasury to obtain a horizontal and vertical view of their group, its capital deployment, usage and cashflow forecasting.

This tool enables the Group to locate and determine how to optimise capital deployment and cash across the group. Additionally, the platform has the capacity to centrally clear all their payment/receipt and FX execution business via a centralised function with smart order logic routing of payments, receipt requests and conversions through the optimal venue from a fully loaded price perspective.


Advantages Of Adopting Our Group Treasury Platform


  • Total Transparency of real time cash position across your group vertically and horizontally
  • Highlight area where capital is sub-optimally deployed
  • Highlight areas which are cash hungry but good companies which can be internally financed rather than seeking external financing through internal allocation of capital via loans or other instruments
  • Storage of all payment, receipt, documentation and full audit trail on every pathway along the process
  • Integration to every major account package and reconciliation systems to reduce the workload within your operations achieving cost savings on headcount
  • Reduce your execution cost on payments, receipts, and FX via our smart order routing API which will always optimise the execution venue for all transactions to minimise the costs
  • Become Audit Friendly! With our platform you will have a central depository for all documentation related to any transactional activity within your group
  • “Buying Power”! The biggest advantage we experienced when deploying this platform and subsequently centralising our Treasury Functions into a single function for the group was a whole new corridor of banking and other execution channels opened to us. Rather than being seen by our local correspondent banks we were embraced by Global Multi Currency Provider banks and EMI’s which massively uplifted our savings on execution

Sounds complex. We have made this easy. In our case we had in excess of 15 companies in eight countries and were the first user of our own product. It took 8 weeks from deciding to deploy this to having every bank and EMI relationship fully integrated, all payments, receipts being auto routed optimally and all FX conversions being conducted at the right venue.


Why was it so simple?


STEP 1

Draw a simple picture of your group corporate structure on our “whiteboard”

STEP 2

Draw the role of every user within the company and the group so their rights can be assigned appropriately

STEP 3

Map your chart of accounts for each entity across to the relevant accounting package used by each entity within your group. We have an API to every major accounting package

STEP 4

Allow us to integrate your Correspondent Banking Network into the platform. We support every single file transfer method and our API team have connected to 40 thousand merchants/PSP’s/EMI’s/Banks

STEP 5

(Optional) Allow us to process your historical groups data for payments/receipts/FX conversions through our Value Capture Analysis software. This will highlight the variance between you banking and execution costs versus centralising this function with an “average” International Multi-Currency Services Provider combined with a large FCA Regulated Electronic Money Institution

STEP 6

Our platform has a smart order routing API and will compute the cash flow requirement for each clearing relationship you have, it will pre-fund the accounts from which payments will be made and will route your payments via the “cheapest” execution venue which is in your network.

STEP 7

Deploy our “legalisation” software with our partner vendors such that important legal documents can be initiated, executed and the subsequent transactions executed seamlessly through the platform

STEP 8

Define your user types. We will consult with you to ensure that at a company, group and any other level each individual within your group has precisely the appropriate rights with respects to that they can, and cannot do in the name of the company. This goes a great way towards achieving SOX compliance and reducing the risk of fraud.


Advantages Of Adopting Our Group Treasury Platform


  • Total Transparency of group and entity cash position across the group vertically and horizontally
  • Highlight area where capital remains sub-optimally deployed
  • Highlight areas where cash hungry but good companies can be internally financed rather than seeking external financing through internal allocation of capital via loans or other instruments
  • Storage of all payment, receipt, documentation and full audit trail on every pathway along the process
  • Integration to every major account package and reconciliation systems to reduce the workload within your operations achieving cost savings on headcount
  • Reduce your execution cost on payments, receipts, and FX via our smart order routing API which will always optimise the execution venue for all transactions to minimise the costs
  • Become Audit Friendly! With our platform you will have a central depository for all documentation related to any transactional activity within your group
  • “Buying Power”! The biggest advantage we experienced when deploying this platform and subsequently centralising our Treasury Functions into a single function for the group was a whole new corridor of banking and other execution channels opened to us. Rather than being seen by our local correspondent banks we were embraced by Global Multi Currency Provider banks and EMI’s which massively uplifted our savings on execution