The cash manager’s new clothes

By adding strategic advisory and outsourcing capabilities to their core services, banks are dressing up traditional cash management and treasury offerings as ‘e-business solutions’. Are these pioneering moves into the new economy enough to win in a web-enabled world? Rick Butler reports

For years, banks that managed cash for corporates in Europe plied their trade in an environment tinged with irony. The requirements for services were as straightforward as the handling of payments across a diverse and often-disconnected array of national settlement and banking systems was complex. Price determined competitive advantage, with profts growth contingent on a bank’s ability to drive up volumes of the transactions it processed.

The arrival of the single European currency 18 months ago – coupled with advancing technology – has altered the cash management landscape in Europe almost beyond recognition.

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