As the second quarter of 2020 gets underway, the news agenda for the year has already been hijacked by one topic. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has brought much business activity to a standstill and threatened the future of even the best-run companies.

Every pandemic has a pain point and Covid-19 has 5 such aspects of treasury as pain points:

  1. Liquidity and funding
  2. Cash flow forecasting
  3. Credit risk on receivables/supply chain finance
  4. Managing the treasury team remotely
  5. FX volatility management