Corporations are finding better ways to work with their bank and trading partners by improving transparency to the financial supply chain and streamlining messaging and communications, says SunGard.

SunGard, which provides its AvantGard treasury and liquidity management solutions to corporations, has identified ten trends that are influencing how corporate CFO's, treasurers and other finance executives operate their treasury departments and manage liquidity.

These trends are:

1. Corporations are striving to attain a holistic view of risk and are increasingly modeling multiple risk types such as FX, credit, market, interest rate and commodity.

2. There is a greater adoption of payment networks and exchanges.

3. Treasurers are looking to improve working capital through improved credit risk analysis and collections automation strategies, resulting in reduced borrowing margins.

4. Corporations are looking to streamline and consolidate their payment flows.

5. There will be a continued movement towards outsourcing transactional treasury functions.