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Treasury and Liquidity: How Do Traditional Corporates and Modern Platforms Differ?
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Zalando Payments and Deutsche Bank executives compare liquidity management at traditional corporates with practices at digital platforms. They argue that treasury and customer payments are strategic functions, while fintechs and e-commerce companies increasingly converge in how they manage money and operations.
The decisive shift is treasury's move from a back-office control function to a core growth
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Treasury capabilities are becoming a competitive factor in fintech and e-commerce, not merely an administrative cost.
Co-branded reward debit cards could close Europe’s loyalty gap as AI reshapes travel booking
Summary
Currensea's new whitepaper examines how technology, tighter household budgets and changing consumer behaviour are reshaping loyalty in Europe. It argues that co-branded debit cards could help airlines and hotel groups build more everyday engagement as loyalty programmes become increasingly important profit centres.
The key change is loyalty moving from occasional travel transactions into daily payments, giving brands
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Airlines and hotels are under pressure to make loyalty useful beyond the trip or risk losing influence at the point of booking.