Bloomberg Professional Services
How award-winning treasury teams are using smarter workflows to handle exceptional moves
Modern treasury is a delicate balance of human instinct and digital intelligence. While data provides the foundation, the treasurer provides the active decision-making required to maintain a firm’s balance sheet health. The goal of automation is not to replace the expert, but to help them focus on what truly matters.
Many treasury systems can project cash flows within a reasonable margin of error, but they often fail at the execution stage, requiring too much manual intervention to sufficiently mitigate risk.
A truly connected workflow captures a firm’s specific hedging and funding policies and uses them to propose rational trades. Instead of monitoring every market fluctuation, the treasurer can operate by exception, affirming and executing trades that the system suggests based on pre-set parameters.
This is particularly useful for asset managers and corporations with large investment portfolios, where even small delays in viewing hedges can materially impact returns. By automating the reporting, electronic trading, and hedge accounting, treasurers can free themselves from manual re-keying to focus on high-level strategy.
The power of this approach was recently recognized at the 2025 Adam Smith Awards Asia. IHH Healthcare, one of the region’s largest private healthcare providers, successfully transformed its treasury operations. By adopting a sophisticated aggregator platform and integrating it seamlessly with their treasury management system, they automated their FX trading and hedging processes.
The result is reduced manual work, mitigated operational risk and a streamlined workflow that allows their team to handle “big, exceptional moves” with confidence.