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FX with style from Valentino FX with style from Valentino
Making cross-currency payments between a subsidiary to a central account is often costly and inefficient. flow explores how fashion house Valentino implemented an award-winning accountless solution with an integrated FX workflow to support its growth in South Korea
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Autohome: in the driving seat Autohome: in the driving seat
Autohome is a dynamic sales and information portal in the world’s largest automobile market. flow’s Clarissa Dann provides a summary of the mileage so far, and reports on how its American Depositary Receipt programme has helped the company broaden and enhance its investor base worldwide
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Iberdrola: pioneering the renewable energy revolution Iberdrola: pioneering the renewable energy revolution
Making net-zero happen by 2050 as global energy demand ramps up looks more doable when utilities commit to clean energy assets for powering their grids. Spain’s Iberdrola worked this out 20 years ago and, as flow’s Clarissa Dann reports, the vision is paying off
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FX with style from Valentino
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Roche’s treasury transformation journey
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Greening Henkel’s supply chain
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Case study: Deutsche Bahn
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Bottling success
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Greening Henkel’s supply chain Greening Henkel’s supply chain
Henkel is using its position as a key buyer to incentivise suppliers to pursue more sustainable practices. flow’s Clarissa Dann explores the critical role of the company’s supply chains in this transition and how sustainability-linked supply chain finance programmes are driving change
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A new suite of virtual accounts for home24 A new suite of virtual accounts for home24
home24’s success as an online furniture platform is founded on effective process automation. flow explores how virtual account numbers help provide the efficiency needed to sustain the company’s rapid growth
FLOW CASE STUDY, SUSTAINABLE FINANCE
Seafarers of net zero Seafarers of net zero
Global trade depends on shipping, but the collective response to global warming also depends on the shipping industry’s ability to mitigate its environmental impact. flow’s Clarissa Dann shares the Hapag-Lloyd sustainability strategy from the corporate treasury perspective
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An energy self-sufficient future An energy self-sufficient future
Global technology and services provider Robert Bosch GmbH is testing a new type of highly efficient fuel cell system that generates low-emission energy and is independent of the power grid. flow reports on how a usage-based financing solution helped drive this project forward
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Case study: Deutsche Bahn Case study: Deutsche Bahn
First published in TMI, this article explores how Deutsche Bahn has worked with Deutsche Bank to define and implement a payments fraud risk management framework for its high- value treasury payments. This framework incorporates sophisticated analytics and risk profiling, but also intensive and regular employee training and wider industry collaboration
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Trip.com’s journey towards a digital treasury Trip.com’s journey towards a digital treasury
The Shanghai-based travel platform Trip.com aims to regain its pre-pandemic growth path. Head of treasury Xuelin Chen tells flow’s Desirée Buchholz about the challenges this creates for her department – and how a project with Deutsche Bank offers both standardisation and digitisation
COMMUNITY, FLOW CASE STUDY
New ways of working New ways of working
Agile working promises to make companies more dynamic. How? flow’s Desiree Buchholz and Clarissa Dann report on how this is happening on the ground, providing insights from Deutsche Bank Corporate Bank’s own agility journey together with that of the SAP treasury team
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Good wood: How Pfleiderer found its ESG mission Good wood: How Pfleiderer found its ESG mission
German wood panel producer Pfleiderer wants to further increase the share of recycled material used in its production. This is not only an essential part of the companies’ ESG strategy, but also relevant for its first sustainability-linked bond, Dr. Mani Herold, CFO, and Carsten Linker, Head of Treasury, tell flow’s Desiree Buchholz
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How treasury and procurement join forces at Knorr-Bremse How treasury and procurement join forces at Knorr-Bremse
The Covid-19 pandemic has underlined the need for a company’s treasury and procurement teams to combine their strengths. Kai Gloystein and Christoph Müller-Stahl tell flow why this has been common sense at Knorr-Bremse for years and how the crisis has impacted their work
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Smart payments for smart cameras Smart payments for smart cameras
Azena, an IoT-based security equipment start-up funded by Germany’s engineering and technology giant Bosch, is revamping its digital payment strategy. flow’s Desirée Buchholz reports on its partnership with Deutsche Bank to improve the customer experience and meet the needs of a fast-growing B2B marketplace
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Powering Australia’s energy transition Powering Australia’s energy transition
Australia is on track to power most of its National Energy Market with renewable resources by 2050. One important contributor is its onshore wind power. flow’s Clarissa Dann reports on how three new Global Power Generation wind farms, equipped with Vestas machinery, were supported with an innovative accounts receivables purchase facility from Deutsche Bank
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Boosting treasury in India Boosting treasury in India
German vibrant science and technology company Merck has turned its treasury business in India inside out. Jörg Bermüller tells flow’s Desirée Buchholz how his team reduced FX risks, optimised liquidity and streamlined processes in an award-winning project with Deutsche Bank