Will Open Banking really breathe new life into banking

July 25, 2017

Open banking is a revolutionary concept in financial services but not in the technology sector. Open APIs are the driving force behind the IoT (Internet of Things) and an essential feature of almost all successful online platforms - from Twitter and Expedia to Amazon and Uber. Those businesses succeed in large part because of the access they provide to third parties.

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With a business volume approaching $3 billion and nearly $11 billion in assets under management, SSQ Financial Group is a prominent mutualist diversified financial institution in Canada...

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Corporate treasurers are creating state-of-the art Treasury organizations to improve the speed and quality of financial decisions while reducing operational cost through shared services. The key challenge is choosing the best methods to integrate the systems that collectively produce insights treasurers need to meet corporate objectives—Treasury Management Systems, ERP platforms and banking partner systems. Use these four corporate-to-bank integration models to help guide your treasury transformation journey.

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Intercompany accounting is integral to the assignment of the profits of domestic and global enterprises. It also has a significant bearing on the effective tax rate of the group. Intercompany accounts therefore must be calculated accurately, accounted for and settled in a timely manner, and tagged properly so intercompany liabilities and profits can be eliminated when results are consolidated. Many of the most common hurdles to an efficient and effective intercompany process can be traced to low levels of process automation, lack of access to a single source of the truth, and decentralized and inconsistent practices. By adopting best practices and reducing the need for manual intervention, account-to-report organizations can not only reduce the cost of the process, but also improve its effectiveness.

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