Coronavirus: Pressure on cash managers to support corporate clients

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Cash managers have always had to act quickly to support corporate clients’ access to liquidity and credit. But now more than ever, clients are turning to bank partners for quick, sometimes emergency, support as companies struggle to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.

For large companies that have strong, long-term relationships with their financial partners, the banks will pull out all the stops, confident that they will be rewarded with loyalty once the economy stabilizes.

“We have provided multi-million financing packages to some of our corporate clients in less than 12 hours,” says Ole Matthiessen, head of cash management at Deutsche Bank.