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The importance of real-time liquidity management services

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Liquidity management enables organizations to meet their short-term financial obligations promptly and without substantial losses. Regulators have identified inadequate liquidity management as a risk to financial stability since the 2008 financial crisis. BCBS 248 requires banks to demonstrate an understanding of intraday positions and identify monthly peak balances.

 

Zoreza global delivers tangible real-time benefits

 

Regulators focus on compliance reporting, resolution planning and stress testing, closely scrutinizing the intraday aspects of your liquidity strategy. Banks must optimize funding and liquidity, understand the drivers of intraday liquidity usage and gain real-time liquidity control to ensure compliance. However, achieving real-time intraday control is challenging and requires capturing transaction-level data, applying complex analytics and delivering instant results in various formats.

Our key capabilities

Cash and securities forecasting and funding

Real-time accuracy reduces funding swing size and frequency (allows cut-off deadlines to be delayed, benefitting upstream business units).

Accurate views of excess currency balances

Enables intraday later-closing currency swaps, the set-up of currency-specific, treasury management centers and deferred deadlines.

Overdraft spikes

Proactively managed and smoothed with funding control integrated with the payments function, allowing intraday payments to be staggered.

Real-time integrated insights

Dramatically reduce the risk of mishandling a time-sensitive client payment or releasing payments without proper control.

Unified view of correspondent bank network

Shows where and how the firm’s legal entities operate accounts and enables more rigorous management of bank relationships and contracts.

An end-to-end process redesign and investment in liquidity management services, data insights and automation offset the hefty cost of error-prone manual procedures.

How Zoreza global elevates liquidity management

 

Partnership and collaboration

 

We collaborate with key platforms like Murex, Calypso, Orchestrade, Finastra and Temenos/Connected Bank to help banks manage the complete transaction lifecycle e.g., capturing transactions or creating a unified, global view of balances across currencies and accounts.

Our expertise extends to advanced cash and liquidity management solutions, including Planixs and SmartStream. These cutting-edge tools help consolidate fragmented infrastructures, providing real-time optimization of cash, collateral and liquidity. With intelligent insights (even across vast data volumes) we empower your treasury business to make informed decisions in critical areas like funding, liquidity, compliance and risk.

As a trusted industry advisor, Zoreza global harnesses partner capabilities to optimize your treasury liquidity management, whether you require assistance with transaction lifecycle management or advanced bespoke solutions tailored to your unique requirements.

Collaborate with Zoreza global to unleash the full potential of your financial operations. Our solutions can be deployed on-premises or on the cloud in Software as-a-Service (SaaS) mode, ensuring flexibility and scalability to meet your evolving needs.

 

 

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Actively managing intraday liquidity, rather than just focusing on optimizing the end-of-day position is now, not only possible given the latest technology available, but essential for banks as well as large corporates.

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The opportunity to reduce funding costs significantly and increase operational efficiencies is such that the business case for investment in liquidity management capabilities is compelling and often self-funding – with the platform providing a base for supporting new client services and revenue streams.

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FAQ

Turning to a liquidity management service provider enables banks to achieve one or several of the following six goals:

  • Enhance regulatory compliance with requirements, such as the ones outlined in BCBS 248
  • Deploy a platform or a bespoke real-time liquidity management solution to power compliance, instant cash flow insights and data-driven decision-making
  • Stress test and optimize the existing liquidity management strategy and solutions to ensure their efficiency
  • Take cash and securities forecasting to a new level of accuracy with predictive analytics solutions
  •  Improve overdraft spike resilience, increase operational efficiency and optimize funding costs
  • Gain a 360-degree of the correspondent bank network

Liquidity management has always been important for these five key reasons:

  • A failure to meet short-term obligations without incurring considerable losses comes at a tremendous reputational cost
  • Regulators scrutinize banks’ liquidity indicators in the framework of verifying their compliance with legal requirements
  • In times of market turbulence where the risk of a run on deposits climbs up, flawed liquidity management can lead to the bank’s failure (case in point: Silicon Valley Bank’s failure in March 2023)
  • Sound liquidity management improves cash forecasting, allowing banks to minimize buffer costs and commit funds to other expenditures
  • Optimized liquidity management also enables banks to avoid trapped cash scenarios

An established trend in the finance industry, real-time liquidity management isn’t an option for banks. Their capability for it is closely monitored by regulators across the globe to ensure the banking system’s resilience and the bank’s compliance with the requirements of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) 248.

The increased adoption of real-time liquidity management goes hand in hand with the rise of instant and real-time payments, faster cross-border transactions, and Open Banking initiatives. What’s more, it’s accelerating these and other trends in the finance industry, becoming a competitive advantage for those banks that go beyond the regulatory requirements.

However, real-time liquidity is also at the root of some challenges banks must grapple with. The definition of real-time liquidity may differ based on jurisdiction, causing a lack of consistency between banks. It also exacerbates obstacles caused by the outdated legacy estate and different conditions across currencies.

Here are six effective strategies for mitigating liquidity risks:

  • Improving cash flow forecasting accuracy by automating manual processes, aggregating all relevant data in a single solution in real time, and continuously updating forecasts
  • Adopting a proactive, highly automated approach to collections and past-due receivables, as well as a comprehensive incentives and penalties system
  • Continuously assessing liquidity risks and updating projections using real-time data
  • Centralizing all internal (cash pool structures, subsidiary data, actuals, accounts receivable and payable) and external (exchange rates, interest rates, etc.) financial data in a single data warehouse
  • Streamlining regulatory reporting on liquidity management with the help of automation tools
  • Implementing predictive analytics tools for continuously updating forecasts, running complex simulations to assess risks and identifying cash flow irregularities