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Why 13 weeks, and how to build one.","2026-07-23",2.5,true,{"path":116,"title":117,"description":118,"type":36,"language":9,"date":112,"order":119,"cluster":31,"minRead":45,"cornerstone":14},"\u002Fblog\u002Fbank-account-rationalization","Bank Account Rationalization: How to Cut Account Sprawl","Bank account rationalization cuts the number of bank accounts to the minimum a company needs. Why sprawl is expensive, and how to run and govern it.",8,{"path":121,"title":122,"description":123,"type":36,"language":9,"date":112,"order":124,"cluster":62,"minRead":45,"cornerstone":14},"\u002Fblog\u002Fbank-fee-analysis","Bank Fee Analysis: How to Stop Overpaying Your Banks","Bank fee analysis reconciles what banks charge against agreed pricing, catching errors and overcharges. 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Bilateral vs multilateral netting.",10,{"path":157,"title":158,"description":159,"type":36,"language":9,"date":112,"order":160,"cluster":62,"minRead":45,"cornerstone":14},"\u002Fblog\u002Fmanaging-surplus-cash","Managing Surplus Cash: Short-Term Investment Basics","Putting surplus cash to work safely, governed by a policy that ranks security, then liquidity, then yield. The cardinal rule of corporate cash investment.",11,{"path":162,"title":163,"description":164,"type":36,"language":9,"date":112,"order":39,"cluster":31,"minRead":45,"cornerstone":14},"\u002Fblog\u002Fphysical-vs-notional-cash-pooling","Physical vs Notional Cash Pooling: How to Choose","Physical pooling moves funds to concentrate cash; notional pooling offsets balances for interest without moving money. The trade-offs, and when to use each.",{"path":166,"title":167,"description":168,"type":36,"language":9,"date":112,"order":169,"cluster":31,"minRead":13,"cornerstone":14},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-is-a-payment-factory","What Is a Payment Factory?","A payment factory centralizes payments for many entities through one channel, often with payments-on-behalf-of (POBO). Why, how, and the intercompany catch.",9,{"path":171,"title":172,"description":173,"type":36,"language":9,"date":112,"order":51,"cluster":31,"minRead":45,"cornerstone":114},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-is-an-in-house-bank","What Is an In-House Bank? A Treasury Guide","An in-house bank is a central treasury acting as a bank for the group — internal accounts, intercompany funding, on-behalf-of payments and netting.",[175,186,197,208],{"path":109,"title":110,"order":113,"faq":176},[177,180,183],{"question":178,"answer":179},"What is a 13-week cash flow forecast?","A 13-week cash flow forecast is a rolling, week-by-week projection of a company's cash receipts and disbursements over the next quarter (13 weeks), built on a direct basis — actual expected cash in and out, not accruals. It's the standard tool for short-term liquidity management because it shows precisely when cash could run short, week by week, far enough ahead to do something about it. It's especially common in tight-liquidity, high-leverage or restructuring situations.",{"question":181,"answer":182},"Why is it 13 weeks specifically?","Thirteen weeks is one quarter — long enough to see the liquidity pressures that are actually coming (a tax payment, a debt repayment, a seasonal dip) but short enough that a week-by-week direct forecast can be reasonably accurate. Beyond about a quarter, receipts-and-disbursements detail becomes guesswork; inside it, the weekly granularity gives you time to act. It's the sweet spot between visibility and reliability for short-term cash.",{"question":184,"answer":185},"What is the difference between a 13-week forecast and a budget?","A budget is an annual, accrual-based plan of profit and cost, usually by month. A 13-week cash flow forecast is a short-term, weekly, cash-based view of actual money moving in and out. The budget tells you whether the business is profitable over the year; the 13-week forecast tells you whether you'll have cash in the bank in week 7. They answer different questions, and a profitable company can still fail the 13-week test if cash timing goes wrong.",{"path":137,"title":138,"order":140,"faq":187},[188,191,194],{"question":189,"answer":190},"What is global cash visibility?","Global cash visibility is the ability to see all of a group's cash, across every bank account, legal entity, currency and banking partner, in one consolidated, timely view. It means treasury at the centre can answer 'how much cash does the group have and where is it?' without emailing subsidiaries or waiting for month-end. It's the foundation for cash concentration, funding decisions and reducing idle balances.",{"question":192,"answer":193},"Why is global cash visibility so hard to achieve?","Because it's a data-coverage problem, not a dashboard problem. A large group banks with dozens of institutions across many countries, each delivering statements in different formats through different channels, for entities that report at different times. Getting a complete, standardized, timely feed from every account into one place, with no account silently missing, is the real work. The reporting view is the easy last step.",{"question":195,"answer":196},"How do you improve cash visibility across a group?","Start with an account inventory so you know every account that should be reporting, then establish an automated statement feed from every one (via host-to-host, SWIFT or an aggregator), normalized to a standard format like camt.053. Monitor that a statement actually arrives from each account daily, and flag gaps. Visibility improves exactly as coverage and timeliness improve; the dashboard is the last 5%.",{"path":143,"title":144,"order":146,"faq":198},[199,202,205],{"question":200,"answer":201},"What is a daily cash position?","A daily cash position is a consolidated view of the cash a company actually has available today, across all its bank accounts, currencies and entities, as of a point in time this morning. It combines the opening balances from bank statements with the day's known movements to answer the treasurer's first question: how much cash do we have, where is it, and what's it going to do today?",{"question":203,"answer":204},"How do you build a daily cash position?","Start from the opening balances on today's bank statements for every account, convert to a reporting currency, then layer on the day's known movements — expected receipts, scheduled payments, maturing investments, drawdowns. The result is the available position by account, currency and entity. The hard part isn't the arithmetic; it's getting a complete, timely statement feed from every bank so no account is missing or stale.",{"question":206,"answer":207},"What is the difference between a cash position and a cash forecast?","A cash position is about today — the actual cash you have right now, built from bank data. A cash forecast is about the future — the cash you expect to have over the coming days, weeks or months, built from projections. The position is the anchor the forecast starts from: a forecast that doesn't tie back to an accurate current position is guessing from a wrong starting point.",{"path":171,"title":172,"order":51,"faq":209},[210,213,216],{"question":211,"answer":212},"What is an in-house bank?","An in-house bank (IHB) is a centralized treasury structure that provides banking services to a group's operating entities — internal current accounts, intercompany loans and deposits, payments and collections on behalf of the entities, netting, and internal FX. It lets treasury concentrate the group's cash, reduce the number of external bank accounts and fees, and centralize control, effectively acting as an internal bank for the subsidiaries.",{"question":214,"answer":215},"What is the difference between an in-house bank and a payment factory?","A payment factory centralizes the execution of payments — one place that makes outgoing payments for the group in a controlled, standardized way. An in-house bank is broader: it maintains internal accounts for entities, does intercompany lending and deposits, netting and internal FX, and typically includes payments\u002Fcollections on behalf of. A payment factory is often one capability within an in-house bank.",{"question":217,"answer":218},"What are the benefits of an in-house bank?","Concentrated cash and better liquidity use, fewer external bank accounts and lower banking fees, centralized control and standardized processes, reduced external FX through internal offsetting and netting, and stronger visibility and governance. The trade-off is complexity: internal accounting, intercompany and tax frameworks, and a capable treasury system to run it.",{"enterprise-ai-transformation":51,"ai-workflow-design":39,"enterprise-ai-systems":220,"treasury-management-systems":221,"treasury-risk-management":221,"treasury-systems-architecture":222,"sap-treasury":222,"building-ai-products":222,"finance-systems-delivery":223},16,21,32,27,1787475407359]