Treasury & Payments Correspondent
Ethan covers corporate treasury, cash management and banking, with a focus on the technologies and practices changing how finance teams manage liquidity, payments and financial risk.
Treasury · Cash Management · Cash Forecasting · Banking · Liquidity · Payments · FX · Working Capital · Bank Connectivity
Its treasury team connected better cash visibility to debt repayment and credit-line sizing. The case shows where financial AI can earn a return—and why the data pipeline matters as much as the prediction.
FedNow settled almost five million payments in Q2 2026, up 83%, and the network limit is now $10 million. The real prize is not faster vendor payments — it is rethinking prefunding, liquidity buffers and controls.
The FOMC held at 3.5%–3.75% in July, but by September 4 the 30-year Treasury yield sat 133 basis points above the three-month. Cash, refinancing and hedging no longer move as one trade.
Fraud attempts stayed near record levels in AFP’s 2025 benchmark, but strong recovery became far less common — shifting treasury’s control case toward verification, response speed and recoverability.
Corporate treasury is moving toward connected bank data, continuous cash visibility and AI-assisted forecasting — but faster information makes controls more important, not less.
