Corporate, CFO & Treasurer

Optimise liquidity and working capital.

Cash Management, Liquidity, Trade Finance & Supply Chain Finance, Digital Assets: OpenbanQ supports Finance Departments and Treasuries in transforming their flows, banking relationships and tools, from strategy through to implementation.

  • 20+ yearsof experience in Global Transaction Banking at G-SIB Tier-1 banks (Calyon, CACIB, HSBC)
  • Europe & AsiaMulti-country transformations, including 6 years in Hong Kong
  • TrainingTeaching at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL and for BAFT
  • Industry initiativesActive in the ecosystem and co-organiser of the Treasury Innovation Day (AFTE)
Your challenges

Treasury is becoming a strategic function.

Visibility, resilience, cost of funding: treasurers are expected to drive group performance, with tools and banks that evolve fast.

01

See and manage your cash in real time

Multi-entity, multi-bank, multi-currency: getting a reliable consolidated position remains a daily challenge. What will the gradual integration of AI change?

02

Working capital under pressure

Payment terms, supply chain tensions, cost of credit: freeing up cash without weakening your suppliers.

03

Infrastructures to choose between

ISO 20022, instant payments, banking APIs, programmable payments (stablecoins, tokenised deposits, CBDCs): which ones really create value for treasury?

Our areas of intervention

Six workstreams for a more agile treasury.

Organisation & Banking Relationships

  • Rationalising banks and accounts
  • Bank tenders (cash management, TMS)
  • Relationship policy and allocation of flows
  • Optimising bank fees

Cash Management & Payments

  • Flow centralisation, payment factory, POBO/ROBO
  • Bank connectivity: SWIFT, EBICS, host-to-host, APIs
  • ISO 20022 and instant payments
  • Implementing programmable Finance

Liquidity & Cash Pooling

  • Physical and notional cash pooling
  • In-house bank and intragroup netting
  • Cash forecasting
  • Digital On-Chain solutions

Trade Finance & SCF

  • Documentary credits, guarantees, SBLCs
  • Reverse factoring and supplier programmes
  • Document digitalisation: French TTE law (Electronically Transferable Instruments) / MLETR (Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records), eBL

Digital Assets & Treasury

  • Euro stablecoins and programmable settlement
  • Tokenised deposits and the MiCA framework
  • Use cases: intragroup flows, cross-border

Tools, Data & AI

  • TMS / ERP selection and integration
  • Treasury reporting and dashboards
  • Applied AI: forecasting, reconciliation
Our approach

From vision to execution, in four stages.

In-depth knowledge of banks, put at the service of treasury: we speak the language of both sides.

  1. 1

    Diagnostic

    Mapping of flows, accounts, banks, tools and costs.

  2. 2

    Target

    Treasury organisation, flow architecture and banking policy.

  3. 3

    Roadmap

    Business case, tenders, trade-offs and sequencing.

  4. 4

    Implementation

    Deployment steering, bank migration, team adoption.

Typical deliverables

Deliverables ready for Finance Departments.

  • Mapping of flows, accounts and banks
  • Target treasury organisation
  • Specifications and bank or TMS tender
  • Business case and sequenced roadmap
  • Opportunity note on stablecoins and digital assets
  • Management Committee materials and team awareness
Engagement formats

A set-up tailored to your needs.

Advisory mission

Diagnostic, target and roadmap on a defined scope.

Senior advisory

Long-term support for the CFO or Group Treasurer.

CFO & Treasurer training

Tailored sessions: liquidity, Digital Trade, digital assets.

Pilot / POC

Scoping and steering innovative projects with banks and fintechs.

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