The Future of Syndicated Lending Demands Specialized Technology

Syndicated lending has grown rapidly over the past decade to become an essential source of financing for large corporations and institutions. Under a syndicated loan structure, a group of banks join together to provide credit facilities and distribute risk across multiple lenders. Whereas a single bank may only be able […]

Webinar: Managing Term Loans, Money Market, Investments & Forex

In todays day and age, restructuring your treasury functions through modernization, flexibility and preparation can allow for real time up-to-date reports that allow for improved short and long term decision making. In this webinar, Zohain Saeed, our BDM for South-East Asia will be covering the management of the following topics […]

CS Lucas and Accounting System Integration

This article will cover the information exchanged between CS Lucas and the accounting (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, as well as the methods employed to facilitate this exchange.   Information sent from CS Lucas  Accounting Journal CS Lucas sends accounting journals to the general ledger of the account system, which are […]

Bank Integration with CS Lucas

This article provides an overview of the integration between banks and the CS Lucas Treasury Management System, highlighting the benefits, methods, and costs of integration. BENEFITS   Integrating CS Lucas with your bank offers several benefits, including: Accurate and up-to-date information for planning: With integration, bank balances and electronic statements […]

Ask an Expert: Investment & Debt Management for Treasurers

In todays times, investment & debt management requires flexibility and quick responses by treasurers for directors to make swift, real-time decisions. In this webinar, Chee Seong Tan, Founder & CEO of CS Lucas (an established treasury management system) talks about some of the most common questions he’s received from clients […]

Training Module: CS Lucas Cash Forecasting

In current uncertain economic times, cash flow forecasting is becoming an ever more important tool for companies. Restructuring your treasury functions to changes swiftly requires modernization, flexibility and preparation. It’s important for treasurers to continually revisit and hone their cash forecasting strategies via automation and collaborative working in these everchanging […]

Webinar: Treasury Management Systems for Local Authorities

For 25 years, CS Lucas has catered to the needs of global corporate treasuries. Today we have an edition of CS Lucas specifically tailored for use by UK Local authorities. Several authorities have successfully (and rapidly) gone “live” using this edition for cash visibility and monitor outstanding loans and investments […]

CS Lucas ISO27001 recertification

We are pleased to announce that the company has successfully renewed its ISO27001 certificate from 19 Sep 2022 to 8 Sep 2025. Maintaining our ISO 27001 certification is of great importance to us. The team at CS Lucas works hard to ensure we are following the international security standards that […]

Still using Spreadsheet for treasury management?

We love the spreadsheets! It is a massive boost to personal productivity.Nothing beats the spreadsheet to quickly sieve through voluminous data to clean, analyse and discern patterns with charts. And often, we see spreadsheet use for printing nicely formatted forms! Spreadsheet misuse But we notice all of our clients struggle […]

Learning Module: CS Lucas Money Market Instruments

At CS Lucas, we believe that all our customers should have access to live and recorded learning modules to help you navigate the system and pick up new tips and tricks for your professional development. In this module, we covered: Booking short term loan/ placements Inter-company borrowing/ lending Limit control […]

CS Lucas launches new TMS service

CS Lucas has launched a new Treasury Management System designed to ensure the reliance upon spreadsheets in treasury is eliminated. We believe that treasurers should be working with the best tools available to them in order to perform to industry standard. That is why we have developed CS Lucas Essentials.   CS Lucas […]

CS Lucas Software Version Information

Our treasury management system uses a multitude of embedded software to support our solution, and from time to time, security vulnerabilities are discovered within these products. These products release patches to resolve or mitigate security vulnerabilities found in their software which are announced via email security bulletins. We keep up-to-date […]

Three ways you can use cash forecasting to future proof your business

Cash forecasting has and always will be a practice that successful businesses utilise to stay ahead of unprecedented events. COVID-19 created a level of financial strain that businesses could not have accounted for. In times like these, keeping a close eye on your cash flow, monitoring your position and having […]

Webinar: AI and treasury – Do Androids Dream of Treasury Systems?

A conversation on the introduction of AI in treasury and treasury management.  We discuss: How machine learning and AI will affect treasurers and finance departments Why we need AI The relationship between RPA and AI The future of AI and Treasury This event was  hosted by Don Escuro, Vice President […]

Webinar: Navigating the Age of Payments Automation

A discussion on payments process automation and integration gateways for treasurers. Lead Software Engineer for CS Lucas, Ivan Parayno give you tips on what you should be looking for when streamlining your organization’s finance department and offers his thoughts on what the future of payments is set to look like. […]

Webinar: How to make the Move from Spreadsheets to Treasury Management Systems

Digital landscapes make dealing with payments, across multiple currencies and banking relationships easier to visualize and quicker to execute. In order to fully utilize the speed digitization offers, we need to say goodbye to manual spreadsheets and move towards Treasury Management Systems that support total cash visibility, seamless connectivity and […]

Webinar: A Guide to Cash Forecasting in a Crisis

The ongoing pandemic has taught us that future proofing is a key skill set that a Treasurer needs in order to see their company through difficult times. Restructuring your treasury functions to respond to crisis requires modernization, flexibility and preparation. It’s important to revisit the best strategies for cash forecasting, […]

It’s time for treasurers to say goodbye to spreadsheets

The financial world is steadily moving towards total digitization. Digital landscapes make dealing with payments, across multiple currencies and banking relationships easier to visualize and quicker to execute. However, in order to fully utilise the speed digitization offers, we need to say goodbye to manual spreadsheets and move towards automated […]

Webinar: Keeping Your Information Secure for UK Local Authorities

Webinar Outline It’s vital that you make sure that you keep your company data protected. At CS Lucas, we understand that a security breach is a costly disaster that can compromise operations and damage your constituents trust. We’ve developed a talk so that you can focus on evaluating treasury applications to […]

Tips on strengthening your security measures

After our #CSLucasWebinar on Keeping your Information Secure, we had some great questions regarding security protocols. Here are some key points from Don Escuro, Vice President of CS Lucas, that will help strengthen security measures. Check that your suppliers are ISO 27001 certified Having an ISO 27001 certification sends a […]

Local Authorities: Is your tech up-to-date?

Are you using hardware or software that is no longer compatible with the latest software updates? It may not seem like a big deal to have the latest anti-virus update on your office PC when it’s running on an older operating system, like Windows 7, but it is. The latest […]

CS Lucas passes ISO 27001 certification second year running

CS Lucas has passed it’s yearly ISO 27001 audit for the second year running with comments by the certification auditor, GIC, that our processes have greatly improved. Maintaining our ISO 27001 certification is of great importance to us. We offered a transparent look into the working processes of our Security […]

Looking at a future with SONIA

There has been a lot of noise surrounding the SONIA/LIBOR transition, what it will look like and how we can best move from relying on LIBOR’s forward-looking rates. Loan markets are in need of the forward-looking term rate that SONIA sets; it’s easier to track and manage interest payments using […]

New Appointments and Staff Relocation

CS Lucas is growing its global presence by new appointments and relocation of staff. The company is strengthening its resources to support further rollouts in Europe, North America and across the Asia Pacific. CS Lucas is pleased to announce the following appointments: · Henrik Schroter as non-executive board director· Min […]

Excellence in Treasury Management Transformation

CS Lucas was awarded Excellence in Treasury Management Transformation at the 6th Annual CFO Innovation Awards on the implementation project with SMRT Corporation Ltd.   I like to share the following email extract from CIO Innovation for their reasons behind the award.Supported by the Group CFO of SMRT Corporation, the […]

Thinking About Building Your Own TMS In-House? Read This First

“Outlining your requirements at the start is vital. For example, can your monthly management reporting information be generated by the TMS with minimal editing required? Ensure that the potential TMS suppliers provide hard examples during the selection process. A TMS should be flexible, so bear in mind what you might […]

How to Iron Out Inconsistencies within Your Treasury Department

Want to know the number one threat to the health of your organisation? Human errors. Yes, that’s right. When it comes to all kinds of potential threats, from online security to compliance, it’s less the hackers, thieves or cheats you have to worry about than the little accidents and mistakes […]

5 Top Cash Management Tools

Knowing how much cash is in the organisation, where it is and how it needs to be managed to cover upcoming payments and upcoming financial and funding requirements is absolutely fundamental to any business. Doing this effectively within one company takes skill, but when you start to incorporate multiple subsidiaries […]

3 Reasons You Need a Free Trial for Your TMS

By the time you hand over the subscription fee for your TMS, you have to be sure it’s the right solution for you. That you can find your way around. That it works as promised. That you could genuinely roll it out company-wide in the timeframes you’ve agreed with your […]

How to Get Your TMS Up and Running in Just Two Months

TMS Technology has come a long way. Gone are the days when set-up costs ruled out all but the Fortune 500. When you had to splash out on pricey in-house infrastructure to make it work. When you’d be waiting around for years before you started to see results. Today, a […]

The Number One Secret to Making Your New TMS a Success

Want to know the single most important factor in getting a new TMS off the ground without a hitch? It’s simple. Get everyone on board. Of course, defining your objectives, mapping out timelines, assigning responsibility, scheduling tests, analysing performance, troubleshooting teething problems… all of these things are essential. But the […]

An App Store for Enterprise-systems, a Reality?

Looking at the ubiquity of smart-phones and the high level of functionality available through apps, we are exploring how enterprise-systems may evolve. If an ideal framework exists whereby stand-alone features can be simply plugged in, this would replace customization. Just like installing an app to a phone. Imagine it on […]

Opportunities Abound in Asian Treasuries

Asia is booming, and it is not just Asian companies but also global companies with operations in Asia. Regular readers of Singapore’s leading daily business publication, The Business Times, will recall an article published earlier in July discussing survey results from PricewaterhouseCoopers’ inaugural Asian-focused treasury survey. Key findings which raised […]