Us Treasury Management Voice of The Customer
Us Treasury Management Voice of The Customer
2022
About this document:
Objective & methods
Depth
In addition to bringing our experiences working with
We interviewed 12
clients daily, we also conducted interviews with treasury professionals
treasurers across small, mid and large corporates.
Vice president, treasury Treasury director Head of treasury Head of treasury tech
Relationships 9
Products 11
Operating model 16
Summary:
Treasury management in 2022
Market context
disruption… …but no change
Advancements in technology have disrupted the Today, there is a clear stalemate between banks and
treasury banking space, enabling banks to roll out their treasury services clients. Banks are seeing only
new offerings (e.g., cash flow forecasting, intelligent limited demand for new solutions, while clients often
payments) and also fueling the growth of fintechs. desire new products and services, but are unable to
More recently, the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted adopt these offerings due to aging infrastructure,
long-established ways of working, driving digitization, squeezed budgets, and risk-averse postures.
and creating a short-lived impetus to adopt new
services.
Market insights
NAÏVE
Advancements in technology have disrupted the N AT I V E
Treasury Banking space, enabling banks to roll out
Naïve clients leverage highly manual treasury Native clients manage their business with digital
new offerings (e.g., cash flow forecasting, intelligent
management processes built on legacy ERPs. technologies and decisions based on data-driven
payments) and also fueling the growth of Fintechs.
While they are evolving, their pace of change is insights. Native clients are driving towards “the
More recently, the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted
not fast enough to keep up with overall next thing” and often push the boundaries of the
long-established ways of working, driving digitization
evolution in the industry. industry.
and creating a short-lived impetus to adopt new
services.
Prefer partnerships…
With banks for new services to reduce With fintechs to adopt bank agnostic
change solutions
Making choices based on integration Selecting partners that integrate into the roadmap
costs with plug-in services
Disparate data sets maintained manually via Workflow services driving insights requiring
spreadsheets standardized data
KEY NAÏVE N AT I V E
NAÏVE
Advancements in technology have disrupted the N AT I V E
Treasury Banking space, enabling banks to roll out
PRIORITIES PRIORITIES
new offerings (e.g., cash flow forecasting, intelligent
payments) andneed
• Minimal also to
fueling thelegacy
change growth of Fintechs.
systems that • Evolve treasury as part of a broader
More serve
recently, the Covid-19 pandemic
current needs as they considerdisrupted transformation of the business to deliver on
long-established ways ofor
treasury a middle- working, driving
back-office digitization
function heighted client and employee experiences
and creating a short-lived impetus to adopt new
• Reducing manual touchpoints with bank for
services. • Data standardization across products and
business and technology needs banks
Even if a fintech can offer a better price, we We are building our own analytics framework -
would likely maintain the relationship we have we work with so many banks, that no one bank
with the banks since they offer a variety of has the complete picture.
services. – Head of treasury tech, technology; software &
– Manager, treasury; Insurance company hardware provider
NAÏVE
LOGIN PAYMENT
LOGIN 1234 1234 1234 1234
PAY BILL
05/2028
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BILL
Celia receives her CellCo bill After receiving her monthly On the website, she starts by On the page that loads, she
in the mail each month paycheck, Celia decides to logging in, then selecting “pay enters her credit card
pay her bills, so she navigates bill” number, and the payment is
to CellCo’s website processed
N AT I V E
When Celia’s bill is ready, she Clicking the notification
receives a notification from her launches her bank’s app,
banking app: Banking Banking loading a payment screen with
“Your CellCo payment is coming Authorize a payment for
upcoming bill
PAY ALL options:
due, click here to authorize it” • Pay in full
PAY IN
INSTALLMENTS
REQUEST AN
EXTENSION
DECLINE
• Pay in installments
PAYMENT
• Pay later
• Remind me later
• Request an extension
She selects an option, and the
payment is processed
NAÏVE
Anton receives a contract He then looks at the contract Next, he considers his Anton then has to make a
to find: options to pay: judgment call on:
• Payment types accepted • Payment fees • How to pay (check, ACH,
• Payment terms • Payment speed wire, commercial card)
• Payment deadline • Account positions • When to pay
• Associated fees • Other scheduled • Which account to pay
payments from
N AT I V E
Anton opens up an app and The app automatically The app then decides (and
takes a picture of the invoice extracts the relevant continually re-optimizes):
information and asks him • How to pay (RTP, wire,
INVOICE DETAILS
to confirm it commercial card,
FEES
blockchain)
INVOICE TERMS
INVOICE PAID • When to pay
TYPES
INVOICE DETAILS • Which account to pay from
HOW
CONFIRM ALL RTP
WIRE
WHEN COMMERCIAL CARD
BLOCKCHAIN
FROM
Relationships
While capabilities are considered table-stakes,
relationships can serve as a differentiator for
banks
Top factors in selecting a new bank (% ranking the factor in the top-two)
36% Reputation
23% Pricing
HOW TO “I want a technical resource “Banks can focus on specific “If banks have a presence
who can answer our industries (e.g., health care) where we have business, we
DELIVER problems along with our to drive value and to want their experience as
day-to-day client service decrease operational costs” part of the package”
contact” – Vice president, finance – Vice president, treasury
– Head of treasury management
technology
Products
While not evident across all product categories,
the Naïve-Native split is highly visible for
information reporting products
02 The selection of a
payment rail is similar
Converting clients to
other services may
PAYMENTS across Naïve and Native require ecosystem
clients with ACH changes (i.e., solving for
favored, but passed demand from clients’
over for many reasons clients/partners)
79% 21%
By the numbers
Payments are split evenly across wires, ACH, check and card with RTP a distant fifth
ACH WIRE
TOTAL
23%
26%
DOMESTIC
14%
INTERNATIONAL
9%
22%
20% 8%
YES NO
Clients dislike checks, but are
ACH Check hamstrung by vendor policies
By the numbers
While demand for analytics and insights is strong, clients are overwhelmingly
dissatisfied with these offerings from their banks
NAÏVE CLIENTS Tool quality: Online banking dashboards provide data, but do not offer the
Looking for support in making timeliness, accuracy, filtering or visualization capabilities required to create the
sense of their data custom reports that clients would like to see
NATIVE CLIENTS Data standardization: Native clients consume and aggregate data across banks
Looking to build a complete to perform their own analytics; with each bank using its own (non-standard)
picture of their finances APIs, clients are forced to build an in-house translation layer to aggregate this
across banks data
Operating model
As client needs’ evolve, the type of bank partner
they are looking for is also evolving
NAÏVE
Advancements in technology have disrupted the N AT I V E
Treasury Banking space, enabling
Increasing bankstoto roll out
pressure Increasing proportion of clients
What is What is
new offerings (e.g., modernize
cash flow forecasting,
treasury, “dointelligent
more displaying digitally Native
changing changing
with less”
payments) and also fueling the growth of Fintechs. behaviors
These clients
More recently, the Covid-19 want adisrupted
pandemic bank that These clients want a bank that
What they What they
long-established can provide guidance to acts as a sophisticated, tech-
want from ways of working, driving digitization want from
support their treasury fluent partner to meet them
andtheir
creating a short-lived impetus to adopt new
banks their banks
transformations where they are and “keep up”
services.
What we heard
It’s fundamental that banks we work with Banks can strengthen relationship by
understand our business and have the adding a technical resource who can
right footprint to best help. speed up triaging efforts.
– Head of treasury, automotive – Head of treasury tech; Software &
materials supplier hardware provider
Banks are getting better at integrating Proactive risk and compliance monitoring
more systems together to make processes from our bank would reduce our internal
seamless. reliance on “experienced” team members.
– Director, treasury; Medical equipment – Vice president, treasury management;
manufacturer insurance company
Historically, banks have designed their treasury Going forward, banks need to reorganize around the
management operating model to support the needs changing needs of their digitally Naïve clients, as well as
of digitally Naïve clients with a product-centric new demands from a growing set of digitally Native
alignment; investments have been focused on clients, which requires banks to move from
modernizing aged technology to sustain legacy incrementalism to transformation (i.e., fundamentally
products and marginally improve processes versus re-architecting their operating models).
understanding and meeting new client needs.
IMPACT ON
NAÏVE N AT I V E FUNCTION
Known operating Want to collaborate Shift away from
Client coverage pain points and a with bank partners product to solution-
SALES & REL. desire to digitize, on how to better based sales model
MGMT. while facing pressure support their
Specialists to do more with less customers and
employees
Emerging desire to Demand for deep Demand for self-
Onboarding use self-service for technical expertise to service with first
what they consider not only find a point of contact issue
SERVICING
“simple” servicing solution, but resolution via
Client servicing requests (e.g., adding recommend relationship pods
an account) improvements
Rising dissatisfaction Forced to adopt new, Integration of data
Product mgmt. with the products non-bank solutions and insights with
driven by perceived crossing product products to create
PRODUCT
lack of tailoring to lines to solve for solution teams
Product operations their industry / their business’
cohort unique use case
EVOLUTION Increase technical acumen and integrate technical resources into sales and
servicing teams; incentivize tech fluency within non-technical roles
ENGINEERING Build a catalogue of standard services to offer clients that allow for economies of
scale and ease of implementing and operationalizing
Develop “fix” repository to learn from previous client issues and reduce time to
resolution in future occurrences
ENHANCEMENT Develop single ecosystem to support bank solutions and provide clients ability to
bring on new services with ease and to re-configure functionality of implemented
solutions
01
HIGHLIGHT THE HUMAN COST
While there is generally a solid financial case for adopting Native services, many
Naïve clients are unable to garner support for the change based on numbers
MAKE IT REAL alone. Helping clients understand the human cost (time, pain) associated with
legacy products (especially for executives) can jump start change.
(for key decision makers)
HELP CLIENTS HELP OTHERS
Clients generally dislike checks and cash, but they continue using both because
their customers and partners are not willing to adopt electronic payments.
Clients are willing and able to run campaigns, educating holdouts on the
benefits of adopting new electronic payments, but will benefit from their bank’s
support.
02
SUPPORT CLIENTS
Given customizations, antiquated processes and outdated, poorly integrated
systems, adopting new solutions can entail significant uncertainty and effort.
STRIVE FOR EASY Providing skilled technical resources who can support clients as they design
and implement new services can encourage them to take the next step.
(for Native service adoption)
REDUCE IMPLEMENTATION EFFORT
Most budget for change/improvement is allocated to internal projects (e.g.,
finance systems consolidation), leaving limited funds available for implementing
new services from banks. Offering products that can easily integrate with
common TMS/ERP systems can help make these projects affordable for clients.
03
START WITH THE USE CASE
Banks are eager to roll out new technologies, but often run into a wall of low
demand. By starting with client needs, banks can develop and sell services that
BUILD AROUND enable clients to achieve their goals and transition in the direction of Native
options (e.g., debit cards for payroll).
NEEDS
(not products) ADD END-TO-END SELF-SERVICE
While Native clients demand self-service as table-stakes, even Naïve clients
have areas where they are willing to self-serve (but are blocked by doing so
because their bank doesn’t offer the option). Expanding self-service options
can be an effective nudge (as long as it doesn’t come at the expense of live
options).
LEGACY • Legacy products are here to stay for at least the next five years
• Banks should focus on lowering the cost to serve these solutions
PRODUCTS (e.g., wholesale lockbox) through technology
NAÏVE TO NATIVE • Naïve clients will likely make the leap if you give them the chance
• Cultivate new products in a client-centric way and teach the sales and
service teams to recognize opportunities in a consultative way
Whitney Stevens
Core Business Operations
Deloitte Consulting LLP
whstevens@deloitte.com
Contributors
Andrew Steiner, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Asher Blackburn, Doblin, Deloitte Digital
Dhakshi Balakumar, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Jacob Novich, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Rushi Shah, Deloitte Consulting LLP
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