Posts by Chance Woudenberg

Understand the core challenges in treasury operations and how to address them effectively in this quick Infographic. Modern treasury management has become increasingly more complex, with increasing demands for accurate cash visibility, accurate reporting and analytics. Our infographic breaks down the key challenges finance leaders face and provides practical steps to: Gain better oversight of…

In my decades of experience in treasury professional, handling KYC regulations and smoothing the client onboarding process were some of the greatest challenges I encountered — in large part due to the siloed and disparate nature of legal entity data. Gathering relevant entity information is vital to both processes, but with the data spread between…

For treasury professionals and finance leaders alike, transaction data makes up the foundation for many of their key decisions. It’s why we spend so much time and effort on cash reconciliation, generating cash flow reports, and calculating cash forecasts. These vital tasks are often made challenging by disorganized categorization.   This can be due to inconsistencies…

Most businesses operate with some version of a treasury management system (TMS) — even if it’s a collection of spreadsheets. While these systems help teams track and manage transactions and cash flow, they don’t offer any systems to monitor the bank accounts and other legal entities connected to those transactions. In this post, learn how…

On Monday, October 19th, 1987, the global stock market unexpectedly crashed. The event became known later as Black Monday and resulted in an estimated $1.7 trillion loss worldwide. In its aftermath, businesses in every industry struggled to keep enough cash on hand. The then-CEO of Volvo, Pehr G. Gyllenhammar, popularized the expression that neatly summarized…

Ed Barrie   The road map that has become Treasury4 came from the experiences and roles I have had over my career in corporate treasury. It all started with my time at Microsoft, when I was trying to understand their systems and data flows. We were using multiple different systems, including integrations with SWIFT, SAP,…

Steve Helmbrecht   Ed Barrie, Nathan Brown, and I founded Treasury4 in 2020 around the desire to build the kind of tools we wish we had as practitioners. Ed developed a vision for software over the course of his career in treasury and, for the first time, the three of us decided to join forces…