Treasury Solutions Spotlight
January 2022
FX Solutions
In this first Treasury Solution Spotlight of 2022, the spotlight is on vendors that offer an FX solution for Corporate Treasury.
The foreign exchange currencies market is by far the largest financial market. To ensure foreign exchange risk management, these vendors offer a solution to streamline the hedging and trading process.
At Orchard Finance we have extensive experience with selecting and implementing FX solutions. For more information about our services concerning FX solutions, please contact Ariane Hoksbergen.
The next Treasury Solutions Spotlight will focus on Payments.
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Hedgebook
About Hedgebook
Hedgebook helps finance departments make better FX risk management decisions. Headquartered in the UK it works with a global client base, including known brands such as Grant Thornton, BDO, Xero and Kathmandu. Our team of treasury experts are on hand to demonstrate how it works.
Solution
Why do our customers choose Hedgebook? Firstly, it's a scaleable SaaS treasury solution that can be implemented within 24 hours. It streamlines financial reporting, including year end and puts independent derivative valuation at your fingertips.
Hedgebook is designed to reduce human error and key person risk - delivering significant operational efficiency. A cost-effective, easy to use treasury management system, Hedgebook delivers real time visibility over FX hedging positions helping to manage financial risk, streamline compliance reporting and protect the bottom line.
Case Study
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Ebury
About Ebury
Ebury is a global FinTech company that offers international payments, hedging, and lending services to accelerate growth. Ebury has 24 offices globally, serving a wide range of clients from Amsterdam to Sydney. Ebury has a team of 80 FX sales and dealing covering the Benelux region.
Solution
Ebury allows clients to make easier, faster and more transparent international payments and hedge their currency exposure. We provide access to an unrivaled amount deliverable currencies. Our Ebury corporate IBANs enable companies to collect, pay and hold funds in 40+ currencies. Versus banks, Ebury provides a high level of service, favourable credit terms, and highly competitive pricing.
Bloomberg L.P. FXGO
About Bloomberg FXGO
Bloomberg, the global business, financial information and technology leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company’s strength – delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately – is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service. Bloomberg’s enterprise solutions build on the company’s core strength: leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively.
Solution
Bloomberg's Foreign Exchange electronic trading platform FXGO is available on the Bloomberg Terminal. FXGO is a crucial tool for controlling currency exposure and risk, identifying market opportunities, and is used by the world’s leading asset managers, pension funds, corporate treasuries, government agencies and regional and global banks. Nearly a third of those who use FXGO and other Bloomberg FX products, do not consider FX their primary asset class. This highlights the fundamental relationship between FX and all other asset classes, and a key benefit of our comprehensive desktop solution.
FXGO covers all major FX products- spot, swaps, NDFs, outrights, deposits and options, for regulated and unregulated markets. As a disclosed, bank-to-client solution Bloomberg provides a distribution mechanism for banks that complements their relationship-based e-commerce strategies, while providing best execution and robust tools for buy-side clients.
Kantox
About Kantox
Kantox is a leader in Currency Management Automation software that enables businesses to automate their end-to-end corporate foreign exchange (FX) workflow, eliminate risk and leverage foreign currencies to increase competitiveness.
Since 2011, clients from over 75 countries have trusted Kantox with their payment and FX management needs. Their solutions allow businesses to collect FX exposure data and automate their hedging, pricing, payment and collection processes. Leading banks BNP Paribas and Silicon Valley Bank have partnered with Kantox to provide automated currency management solutions to their corporate clients.
With offices in London and Barcelona, over 120 staff members contribute towards creating their award-winning technology.
Currency Management Automation
Kantox offers a flexible solution that covers the entirety of the FX workflow:
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Pre-trade: The software allows businesses to price in over 130 currencies. It can automatically capture a company's various types of FX exposure data and customise how it is processed according to specific rules.
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Trade: Companies can stay in control of their FX trading and remove risk from manual trade execution, helping reach best-price execution.
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Post-trade: Businesses can get real-time reporting and insights on their exposure and hedging performance, as well as centralising all of their foreign currency collections or payments.
TreasurUp
About TreasurUp
TreasurUp is a Dutch Fintech company that provides commercial banks around the world with online solutions for their corporate customers, mainly SMBs (small and medium sized businesses). Companies can only use TreasurUp's web environment through the banks that TreasurUp work with. Currently, these are: Rabobank, KBC, OP Bank, Nordea, LBBW, Sparkasse Germany and SEB.
Solution
The online modules that most banks nowadays offer per business line, like cash management and FX trading are not fully supporting the way SMBs actually work. TreasurUp aims to change that. Its innovative, cloud-based web and mobile applications are designed together with hundreds of SMBs and are offered white labeled to banks around the world for their SMB client base. The main modules include FX hedging with automated hedging functionalities and bookkeeping connectivity, Cash Visibility with a multi currency, multi entity and multibank setup and Cash Flow Forecasting in an easy way.
FX4Cash
About Deutsche Bank
At home in the Netherlands and connected to the world. We have been successfully doing business in the Netherlands for more than 100 years. What inspired our founders is the same that drives us today. We want to create a positive impact for clients, employees, the economy and society. In its capacity as the largest international bank in the Netherlands, Deutsche Bank offers top-quality solutions to commercial and institutional clients as well as wealthy individuals. Working from offices established in well over 50 different countries worldwide, Deutsche Bank’s employees form a single team for our clients with efficient solutions to support them in their growth.
FX4Cash Solution
FX4Cash® leverages Deutsche Bank's expertise as a leading cash management provider with its renowned capabilities as a truly global FX trading powerhouse to offer a broad range of solutions for cross border payments targeted to Corporate Clients, Financial Institutions and Non-bank Financial Institutions.
FX4Cash strongly integrates with Deutsche Bank's existing client access channels, extensive reach to global payment and clearing systems, as well as leading FX trading infrastructure to provide you with a one stop solution for your cross-border currency payments worldwide.
‐ Supporting multiple currencies, payment options, access channels, FX trades, rates and value dates.
‐ Latest technology and systems applications ensure operational excellence and quality customer service.
‐ Full suite of solutions to support your payables, receivables and passive cross-border flows.
360T Group
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About 360T Group
360T is far more than an award-winning multi-bank, multi-asset trading platform for OTC financial instruments. As the Deutsche Börse Group’s global FX unit, the company offers a full range of streamlined services across the entire trading workflow of FX and short-term Money Market asset classes, adding real value to clients. Above and beyond optimising execution, 360T allows clients to directly reduce their operational costs and risks in all parts of the trading life cycle while enhancing compliance and transparency at the same time.
Solution
As an independent technology solution provider for the trading community, 360T is committed to providing functionality and development and is a strategic consultative partner in its clients’ success.
Regulated by the German Financial Authority and operated as a SaaS setup, the company provides clear and tangible values for the financial market. 360T serves the needs of Corporate Treasurers, Institutional Asset Managers and Hedge Funds as well as commercial and private Banks by providing a link to broad liquidity from more than 200 Liquidity Providers – including large global players as well as regional and niche makers around the world.
360T’s network is used by over 2300 buy-side clients organizations worldwide, including global and regional Corporate Treasuries alongside several hundred commercial and private banks and major Asset Managers. White-label and in-house trading solutions provided by 360T have been adopted by major international companies to link request and transaction flow through a #central trading desk.
360T has a global presence with customers in more than 75 countries and offices in Europe, America, Asia Pacific, India and the Middle East.
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