TIS (Treasury Intelligence Solutions)’s Post

20 great years !  The NeuGroup for EMEA Treasury just celebrated its anniversary in our first-ever meeting in Berlin, at Deutsche Bahn’s Hauptbahnhof, with our Founder & CEO Joseph Neu.  Thank you to our host, Dr. Gerd Berghold, to our sponsor, Andreas Gefnider of TIS (Treasury Intelligence Solutions), and to our member participants for a very high level of engagement and many substantive discussions. The event began with the camaraderie of a networking Walk & Talk in the Tiergarten, as we wound our way to a delicious dinner at the Paris-Moskau restaurant. From Gerd we learned about the systematic approach that Deutsche Bahn uses in its award-winning treasury function.  Among the highlights, the participants explored several DB examples of how to approach a cost/benefit analysis for each major category of treasury technology investment. During our Projects & Priorities, session, the heart of the NeuGroup peer exchange experience, members shared their challenges over the coming months and years and helped each other find ways to approach those challenges. Jani Relander described his treasury team's transformation to accompany and enhance ABB’s significant multi-year evolution while maintaining the firm’s core decentralized operating model.  Treasury is implementing a multi-year plan to simplify processes, centralize both execution and expertise, and refine the organization model.  Their goal is to foster transparency, accountability, and speed of execution while keeping decision-making, risks and rewards at the operating company level. We were honored to have Ford Motor Company’s ever-optimistic Clive Bailey with us on the eve of his retirement for a Q&A with Joseph Neu.  His responsibilities will soon pass to Matt Armbruster.   Clive reflected on the highlights of his forty-year career in treasury, his outlook for the future, and his counsel about navigating treasury over this current period of seemingly imperturbable markets despite significant underlying macroeconomic risks. Joseph Neu provided a thought-provoking crystal ball to members with his presentation on The Future of Treasury, focusing especially on the potential long-term consequences of AI and treasury’s evolving role as an enabler of business success. Our event ended with a rapid-fire session called Solve My Problem !  which focuses on topics that were not treated during the other sessions. My thanks also to Courtney Royer, Zandra Floirendo, Alyssa McArdle, CMP, Jake Bromsey, Chris Riordan, and Joseph Neu for making this event a success. We look forward to seeing our members next May 20-22 in Zurich.