​The first live Working Capital Forum event for over two years took place at the Waldorf Hotel in London’s West End on 14th October 2021. The event has brought together more than 100 treasurers and working capital experts to discuss the latest themes, challenges, and keys to success in working capital.

Cash pooling offers clear advantages to businesses that want to make cash ‘trapped’ in subsidiaries available at the group level. ​

Banks and corporates must keep an “open mind” and embrace new digitised platforms to secure the future of trade finance.

The May round table meeting for the Working Capital Forum saw treasurers from seven multinationals gather to discuss ways of encouraging supplier take-up of supply chain finance programmes, in a meeting sponsored, as usual by American Express.

Bringing disparate entities together in a centralised treasury or shared service centre can be a positive step along the road to better working capital management. ​

Communicating with suppliers, buyers and finance providers is more essential than ever in a crisis. That was the unanimous conclusion of the speakers in the latest Working Capital Forum online meeting, Funding supply chains for recovery.

More than one-third of corporations have accelerated their plans for automating their accounts payable function during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a poll taken during the latest Working Capital Forum online meeting.

The coronavirus lockdown has exacerbated the problems faced by smaller business in getting paid, said the UK’s Small Business Commissioner, Philip King, in the latest Working Capital Forum online meeting. ​