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Increased Control and Independence

Outsourcing your Austraclear settlements to an independent expert can help to increase controls and reduce risks when managing Australian Securities. Austraclear membership gives you full…

Covid Continuity

The COVID-19 global pandemic provided a ‘natural test’ for the structures and procedures created by Sydney-based global fund and asset manager, First Sentier Investors (FSI —…

Key Person Risk Solved

“I don’t know why more people don’t give treasury back-office outsourcing a go,” said John Bishop, Group Treasurer at Auckland Council. “From a straight economic…

Agile Outsourced Segregation

86 400 is Australia’s first smartbank — built for smartphones. A bank which tells customers what’s actually going on with their money, so…

Treasury outsourcing provides BAU during lockdown

First Sentier Investors – Infrastructure Investments The COVID-19 global pandemic provided a ‘natural test’ for the structures and procedures created by Sydney-based global fund and…

Shared services model ‘a risk’ facing June 30 audits

This year’s June 30 audit process could expose problems caused by the migration of treasury back office functions to shared services accounting teams…

Is your organisation audit-ready?

Facing the challenge of Covid-19 restrictions has been an unforgiving test of day-to-day procedures under remote working conditions. Businesses with their financial year ending on…

Machine learning… beyond process automation

Payment processing was originally conceived to deliver greater accuracy and speed in the financial markets. Processing financial transactions without manual intervention has a lot of…

Over-stretched treasury staff?

Holidays and unexpected leave create a stress point for many overstretched treasury teams. Rather than trying to cover more ground with existing staff, Lesley Mitchell of ETOS encourages CFOs to consider out-sourcing treasury holiday cover as one way of releasing this pressure.

Five key threats caused by Key Man Risk

Maintaining the segregation between your middle and back office functions is not just an important tick in the box for audit purposes. Lesley Mitchell, Executive Director of outsourced treasury services firm ETOS, outlines the five key threats caused by key man risk.