The flow InCorporate Treasury Podcast series is designed for and with corporate treasurers. We are offering treasurers a stage from which to share their stories with the community and learn from peers. What are the latest achievements they have attained with their teams? Which projects are the most challenging ones and how are treasury departments finding solutions and building shared learning? The flow InCorporate Treasury Podcast covers the entire range of treasury skills and competencies – from managing cash and FX risks to making use of innovative technologies and implementing ESG strategies. Tune in and be part of it!
Why global pharmaceutical corporate Merck is switching to the ISO 20022 standard
The milestone of November 2026 is now firmly on the horizon for corporates to adjust postal address information in their payment instructions and move their payments to ISO 20022.
This podcast hears how Merck has been preparing for migration, with Uwe Reinemer, Head of Treasury Technology & Digitalisaton, in conversation with Deutsche Bank’s Kerstin Schoenwitz. She is responsible for managing ISO 20022, Corporate-to-Bank Standardisation & Global Formats.
Key takeaways:
ISO 20022 is the future of payments, and not just for banks. If corporates fail to implement this messaging standard into their systems, this could disrupt processing of their payments.
Migration is not just another IT product – but a strategic development. The better data that comes with this delivers significant efficiencies in all aspects of payments and reconciliation.
External migration and internal migration are very different.
Proactive planning and enterprise collaboration are vital. If you have started migrating, keep testing and adjusting. And if you have not – get going now!
Tune into this new episode of the flow InCorporateTreasury Podcast to learn more.
Specialist terms used
.camt. Cash management messages within the ISO 20022 standard. See definitions here (https://www.iso20022.org/iso-20022-message-definitions)
.pain. Payment initiation messages within the ISO 20022 standard
XML. Markup language that can be read by computers and machines
ERP. Enterprise resource planning (system)
TMS. Treasury management system
STP. Straight-through processing
UETR. Unique end-to-end transaction reference (used for payment tracking)
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2 Jun 2025
How German energy provider RWE is using reverse repos to invest surplus cash
Nicolas Meyer and Marius Kämmerer from RWE, along with Leon Kurz from Deutsche Bank, examine how reverse repos assist corporate treasurers in managing surplus cash during market volatility in this interview.
11 Mar 2025
Revamping treasury reporting at MANN+HUMMEL
Getting access to high-quality and consistent data is key for steering a treasury department. Only if you have a well-structured reporting landscape, you can achieve transparency on liquidity, cash and FX risks and make informed decisions on financing, investing, and hedging.
This is why “improving treasury reporting has been in the back of mind since I joined MANN+HUMMEL five years ago”, says Dominik Paschinger, Vice President Group Treasury & Risk Management. MANN+HUMMEL is a family-owned German filtration company which generated a turnover of €4.7bn across its 80 locations globally in 2023. According to Paschinger the current reporting structure based on excel sheets is not ideal: “The process is very manual, and we have access to a lot of data which we never use for reporting purposes.”
Last year, his team then finally had the capacities to put a revamp of the reporting structure on the agenda. “We set down with entire treasury team to develop a target structure for the treasury function in 2030 which we called ‘Shaping a future-proof treasury',” he explains. And one key element of this vision was to define how the treasury reporting should look like.
So how does this vision look like and how far has his team come since then? What kind of information will his team and MANN+HUMMEL’s top management be able to source from these newly built dashboards? And what role does artificial intelligence (AI) play?
Tune into the podcast and get Paschinger’s insights here:
13 Nov 2024
Growing a business in India - challenges and solutions for corporate treasurers
Fuchs SE's Parag Dongare and CFO Prathamesh Khedekar share how they doubled growth in India by identifying market segments and tackling foreign exchange risks and cross-border trade regulations.
10 Jul 2024
How cross-border cash concentration can be achieved in Brazil
Over the last few years, Brazil has re-established its attractiveness to foreign investors. According to the World Investment Report 2023, FDI inflows into Brazil increased to US$86bn in 2022 compared to US$50.6bn one year earlier (+69.9%) which was the second-highest value ever recorded and the fifth worldwide.
Yet, for companies doing business in Brazil there are several challenges when it comes to financing local operations. Jeremy Hamon, Head of Group Finance, CFO, Primetals Technologies Treasury explains, “Brazil is peculiar because of its cross-border currency regulation preventing cash concentration partially with stamp duty for offshore deposits and a high withholding tax on interest income when doing intercompany financing.”
Moreover, adds Hamon, the Brazilian real is a non-transferrable currency which makes hedging for long-term maintenance contracts an “expensive challenge”. Primetals Technologies designs and builds plants for the metals industry and its Brazilian affiliate is a specialist in steel castors maintenance – which means it has long-term contracts with its customers.
In the light of all these challenges, how has Primetals still managed to set up an automated intercompany cross-border loan for its Brazilian affiliate? This comes close to a cash pooling structure with an FX component and therefore fulfills the requirements from the central treasury organisation. Tune into the new flow InCorporate Treasury podcast and learn more.
17 Apr 2024
Revamping payment and FX processes at new economy companies
Driven by a young and aspirational middle class, digital consumption and travel
expenditures are booming in South-East Asia. A company that sits at the sweet
spot of these two trends is Tiket.com, one of the fastest growing online travel
agencies (OTA) in the world with more than 15 million app installations.
Founded in 2011, the Indonesian new economy company now cooperates with 140
airlines and 2.6 million accommodation providers.
Yet, acting as an intermediary between different parties creates multiple challenges
for the treasury function, explains Eddy Putra, Head of Treasury at Tiket.com. Given
the nature of travel, where booking is usually done in advance and settlement
to hotels is done only upon completion of travel, the company is exposed to FX
risks. It also faces multiple recurring cross-border payments to overseas hotels
which led to high fund transfer fees as well as manual processing.
How did the company address these challenges in a workflow automation project with
Deutsche Bank? Tune into the new flow InCorporateTreasury podcast and learn
more about this award-winning solution!
18 Jul 2023
What do corporate treasurers want from their banks? The Corporate’s perspective
Apart from the obvious of everything working on time every time, and a trusted partner in good and tough times – the relationship needs to be dynamic and enterprise-wide. Treasury consultant Kate Pohl hosts two flow podcast episodes to find out more.
This episode focusses on the Corporate’s perspective, with Maria de la Fuente, Iberdrola; Patrick Kunz, Pecunia Treasury & Finance, Treasury-as-a-service.com and Christof Hofmann, Global Head of Corporate Cash Management at Deutsche Bank
4 Jul 2023
What do corporate treasurers want from their banks? The Consultant’s perspective
Apart from the obvious of everything working on time every time, and a trusted partner in good and tough times – the relationship needs to be dynamic and enterprise-wide. Treasury consultant Kate Pohl hosts two flow podcast episodes to find out more.
This episode focusses on the Consultant’s perspective, with Craig Jeffery, Strategic Treasurer and Christof Hofmann, Global Head of Corporate Cash Management at Deutsche Bank.
21 Jun 2022
How to enable digital business models via payments
As more and more B2B companies are selling their products and services directly to the consumer, this changes the way in which payments are being made. At Swiss multinational healthcare company F. Hoffman-La Roche, business model transition began a couple of years ago in the diabetes care segment – and since then the number of business units that are addressing the patient directly has continually increased.
So, what can treasurers do to support direct-to-consumer-models? And how can they ensure that the payment set-up remains efficient and secure in a digital world? In this episode, Group Treasurer Britta Döttger and Head of Treasury Operations, Martin Schlageter, share insights into Roche’s digital payment strategy and how a new project with Deutsche Bank is helping them to stay ahead of the curve.
Tune into the new flow InCorporateTreasury Podcast and learn more!
24 May 2022
Why agile working is the future
Extreme events are getting more frequent – whether it is the outbreak of a global pandemic or the war in Ukraine. On this backdrop, being flexible and reacting quickly to new market conditions has become a key driver for a successful treasury organisation, and agility has become the new buzzword. But what does agile working actually mean for treasury departments and how can your organisation get there? In this episode, Steffen Diel, Head of Global Treasury at SAP explains when and why he kicked off an agile transformation project in his team, how he addresses concerns of employees and what the new concept demands from him personally. Tune into the new flow InCorporateTreasury podcast and learn more!
5 Apr 2022
Managing a post-merger integration
As the world went into the first Covid-19 lockdown in spring 2020, German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon managed the largest take-over in its history acquiring US competitor Cypress for an enterprise value of €9bn. In our first episode of the flow InCorporate Treasury Podcast, Alexander Foltin, Head of Treasury and Investor Relations at Infineon, explains how market turbulences affected the deal – but in particular he shares insights on how his treasury team is managing post-merger integration. Listen in and learn more about aligning treasury policies, integrating cash management structures and building trust in a remote work environment.
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