TMI GLOBAL LIQUIDITY BAROMETER 2022

37 TMI GLOBAL LIQUIDITY BAROMETER 2022 CONCLUSION As investment technology has evolved, it increasingly enables corporates to easily access a greater range of funds and providers – through a single marketplace for short-term investments. This allows treasurers to effectively ‘do more with less’, brings efficiencies to investment workflows, and reduces the need for manually logging in to different systems. The reporting and monitoring aspect of short-term investment management, in particular, reaps the rewards when a system or portal that can integrate real-time data feeds is part of the treasury technology stack. Delivering automation at this end of the investment process eliminates the painful time costs and error risks that plague manual attempts to pull together various data formats from multiple systems. With far more accurate reporting as a result, treasurers can enhance the processes that go into the investment decision-making process and continually optimise their short-term investment portfolios. In this volatile operating environment, having control over the company’s invested cash – and the appropriate liquidity in the portfolio to access it on demand – has never been more critical. The results of this survey reveal three vital steps that corporate treasurers can take to help achieve these goals: • Apply automation to improve operational efficiency • Increase transparency through real-time information • Establish real-time connectivity across systems, through seamless integration This level of digital innovation is available in the treasury technology market today. It can be readily deployed to revolutionise short-term investing and optimise cash and liquidity management, ultimately enabling treasurers to better support their organisation.