TIS Has Signed Binding Agreement with Marlin Equity Partners to Secure a Majority Growth Investment

Marlin Equity Partners has signed a binding agreement to acquire a majority stake in Treasury Intelligence Solutions. The investment puts the company in a great position to continue investing in organic and inorganic growth opportunities across the Office of the CFO. Co-founder Joerg Wiemer, Aquiline Capital Partners LP, and the Management Team retain significant minority positions in the company.

Today, Treasury Intelligence Solutions (TIS), a global leader in cloud-native cash management, liquidity and payment solutions, announced that it has signed a binding agreement to secure majority growth investment from Marlin Equity Partners (Marlin). The investment positions TIS to execute on organic and inorganic strategic initiatives to further serve the Office of the CFO. The agreement is subject to customary regulatory clearance. A closing of the transaction is expected in the second quarter.

TIS’ Group CEO Erik Masing commented “this exciting partnership with Marlin will fuel our international expansion efforts, leveraging their expertise to broaden our partnerships and strengthen our product offering. In an era of supply chain disruption, rate volatility and macroeconomic uncertainty, the importance of liquidity management, working capital optimization, and secure, efficient B2B payments has never been higher for our customers. The Marlin team demonstrated a deep appreciation for the strength of our value proposition and a strong alignment with our strategic goals.”

Chris Calhoun, TIS’ CEO of Americas, added “Marlin’s deep understanding of the European and U.S. markets, as well as their experience in the Office of the CFO and monetization of data and payments in particular were the key reasons we were keen to partner with them.”

“The TIS team impressed us with their strategic and innovative product offering, strong banking integrations and dedicated customers focus. The company’s mission-critical platform is well positioned to deliver continued growth in the global market for B2B payments, cashflow and treasury management solutions,” said Konstantin von Bismarck from Marlin. “We are excited to welcome TIS to our family of software businesses and are thrilled to support the company’s vision of helping more enterprises effectively, securely and transparently manage their treasury needs.”

Raymond James served as exclusive financial advisor to TIS. Guggenheim Securities, LLC served as exclusive financial advisor to Marlin.

About Treasury Intelligence Solutions (TIS)
TIS helps Chief Financial Officers, Treasurers, and Finance teams transform their global cash flow, liquidity, and payment functions. Since 2010, our award-winning cloud platform and robust service model have empowered the entire office of the CFO to collaborate more effectively and attain maximum efficiency, automation, and control. With over 11,000 banking options, $80 billion in daily cash managed, and $2.7 trillion in annual transaction volume, TIS has a proven track record of combining our extensive market expertise with tailored client and community feedback to drive digital transformation for companies of all sizes and industries. For more information, please visit www.tispayments.com.

About Marlin Equity Partners
Marlin Equity Partners is a global investment firm with approximately $9 billion in capital commitments. The firm is focused on providing corporate parents, shareholders and other stakeholders with tailored solutions that meet their business and liquidity needs. Marlin invests in businesses across multiple industries where its capital base, industry relationships and extensive network of operational resources significantly strengthen a company’s outlook and enhance value. Since its inception, Marlin, through its group of funds and related companies, has successfully completed over 200 acquisitions. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with an additional office in London. For more information, please visit www.marlinequity.com.

About Aquiline Capital Partners LP
Aquiline Capital Partners LP is a private investment specialist based in New York, London, Philadelphia, and Greenwich, Connecticut, that invests across financial services and related technologies. The firm has $10.1 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2023. For more information about Aquiline, its investment professionals, and its portfolio companies, visit www.aquiline.com.

Contact Information
Jennifer Knutel
EVP Global Marketing
jennifer.knutel@tispayments.com

SOURCE: Treasury Intelligence Solutions (TIS)

TIS & Treasury Strategies Announce an Integrated Bank Fee Analysis Solution for Corporate Treasury & Finance

  • Global Bank Connectivity, Account Management, & Fee Analysis Through a Single Solution

Today, Treasury Intelligence Solutions (TIS) and Treasury Strategies, a division of Curinos, Inc., have announced a new partnership agreement that will see Treasury Strategies’ global bank fee analysis platform integrated with the TIS cloud platform for cashflow, liquidity, and payments. By leveraging the combined solutions of TIS and Treasury Strategies, corporate treasury and finance teams can now gain complete control and visibility over every element of their banking operations through a single structure. 

Since 2010, TIS has enabled organizations to connect their entire banking and back-office landscape together through a single platform that streamlines payments and reporting, simplifies bank account management, and provides total visibility over account balances, transaction details, and all associated bank documentation. By adding the capabilities of the Treasury Strategies bank fee analysis solution, TIS clients can now easily monitor bank fees across all their relationships, standardize fee categories for benchmarking purposes, and automatically identify pricing discrepancies on monthly statements. These capabilities unlock a whole new tier of operational efficiency for clients who want to quickly analyze bank fees across all their relationships and account structures, benchmark these costs across each bank relationship, and then compare their fees against what similar companies are charged both domestically and globally. 

Given that TIS has integrated over 85,000 client bank accounts with their platform and can connect organizations to 11,000+ global banking options, the Treasury Strategies bank fee analysis solution serves as a natural extension of these core capabilities. According to Jon Paquette, SVP Solutions at TIS, “The TIS and Treasury Strategies integration is the latest example of our commitment to provide businesses of all sizes and industries with top-tier bank connectivity and bank account management services. With Treasury Strategies as our partner, clients can now access an unprecedented range of datasets to help them evaluate and benchmark the costs of their banking operations on a global scale. This will ultimately enable them to more effectively identify inefficiencies, eliminate redundancies, and create a more sustainable, streamlined, and cost-effective banking structure.” 

This perspective was shared by Peter Serene, Managing Director of Commercial solutions at Curinos, who added, “We’re thrilled to partner with TIS, integrating our advanced bank fee analysis solution, NDepth, into their comprehensive treasury management suite. In today’s evolving bank fee and ECR landscape, NDepth is a critical tool. It’s designed to empower organizations with unparalleled visibility into their financial operations, aligning with TIS’ mission to simplify global payments and cash management. Together, we help organizations assert control over their bank fees, optimize financial processes, and realize substantial savings. This collaboration underscores our commitment to delivering transformative bank fee analysis benefits for treasurers worldwide”.

The partnership between TIS and Treasury Strategies is expected to take effect immediately, with both teams working together to develop an enhanced solution offering for clients. For more information about this announcement, refer to the below media contacts.

About Treasury Intelligence Solutions (TIS): TIS helps CFOs, Treasurers, and Finance teams transform their global cash flow, liquidity, and payment functions. Since 2010, our award-winning cloud platform and best-in-class service model have empowered the entire office of the CFO to collaborate more effectively and attain maximum efficiency, automation, and control. With over 11,000 banking options, $80 billion in daily cash managed, and $2.5 trillion in annual transaction volume, TIS has a proven track record of combining our unparalleled market expertise with tailored client and community feedback to drive digital transformation for companies of all sizes and industries. For more information, visit tispayments.com and begin reimagining your approach to global cash flow, liquidity, and payments. For additional information, please visit www.tispayments.com.

About Curinos: Curinos is the leading provider of data, technologies and insights that enable financial institutions to make better, and more profitable, data-driven decisions faster. Curinos brings to market a new level of industry expertise across deposits, lending and digital experience solutions and technologies. Through access to comprehensive datasets and analytics, intelligent technologies and connected behavioral insights, Curinos is the partner of choice to help you attract, retain and grow more profitable customer relationships. For additional information, please visit www.curinos.com.

About Treasury Strategies: Treasury Strategies, a division of Curinos is a leading treasury consultancy working with public and private sector treasury organizations. Our experience and thought leadership in corporate treasury management, banking, risk management, working capital, liquidity and payments, combined with our comprehensive view of the market, rewards our clients with a unique perspective and actionable solutions. For additional information, please visit www.TreasuryStrategies.com.

StoneX Global Payments & TIS Partner to Offer Enhanced FX Payment Services for Corporate Treasury & Finance Teams

This partnership enables simplified access to global markets and optimized cross border payments for corporate treasury and finance professionals.

Today, StoneX Global Payments and TIS have formally announced an official partnership agreement. Under the arrangement, StoneX and TIS will combine their extensive experience in cross-border payments and cloud-native payment solutions to create an unparalleled level of global service and coverage for corporate treasury and finance teams.

The partnership, which leverages both companies’ comprehensive industry knowledge and market-leading software solutions, enables corporate clients to drastically simplify the complexity of cross-border and foreign exchange payments. As a result, treasury and finance professionals can gain total visibility over their FX transactions, as well as full transparency to FX rates before transfers are initiated and executed. Ultimately, this gives corporate clients a more cost-effective and straightforward workflow for their FX payments, as well as increased protection against currency risks and other common international payment challenges. Today, the service provides a gateway into global markets across 140+ currencies and 180+ countries, allowing clients to choose the right payment option in each scenario with a guaranteed payment delivery of 48 hours or less.

“Teaming up with TIS unites their offering in key areas of corporate clients with our strengths in global payment solutions and technology. This enables our customers not only to leverage efficiency and automation potentials but also to benefit from cost savings in the local currency business. We are looking forward to a fruitful partnership with TIS”, said Marc Joppeck, Head of Sales & StoneX Payments Division Germany & Corporate Payments Europe.

The strong connectivity between TIS and their customers’ back-office systems and banks, following a multi-channel banking approach across any preferred network, makes payment processes streamlined, secure, and efficient. Both TIS and StoneX Global Payments have strong SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) partnerships and are fully compatible with ISO 20022, as well as the full scope of other messaging standards in use today. This means StoneX Global Payments and TIS can offer fully integrated and automated end-to-end processes regardless of the unique requirements presented by specific clients.

Regarding the benefits of this partnership, Jorg Wiemer, Co-founder and CSO at TIS, stated: “The collaboration with StoneX Global Payments enables our customers to significantly reduce FX payments costs and to further streamline cross-border payment processes. With automated, ERP-integrated processes as well as full transparency on cash flows and FX rates and 140+ currency options, and guaranteed delivery within 48 hours, together with StoneX Global Payments, we can offer unmatched services that allow our customers fast and efficient simple access to global markets. We’re excited to push this collaboration further.”

In recent months, StoneX Global Payments and TIS have already proven that the benefits their partnership provides to organizations are critically important. As of October 2022, TIS clients including the award-winning non-profit organization IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) are leveraging the FX payment solution to achieve substantial cost-savings over their previous setup. The partnership continues to deliver outstanding results for many other clients as well.

Moving forward, the combined strength of StoneX Global Payments and TIS is expected to continue creating enhanced global market access and optimized FX strategies, resulting in a partnership that consistently delivers maximum value to corporate clients.

About TIS

TIS helps CFOs (Chief Financial Officers), Treasurers, and Finance teams transform their global cash flow, liquidity, and payment functions. Since 2010, our award-winning cloud platform and best-in-class service model have empowered the entire office of the CFO to collaborate more effectively and attain maximum efficiency, automation, and control. By streamlining connectivity between our customers’ back-office systems and their worldwide banks, vendors, and business partners, TIS enables users to achieve superior performance in key areas surrounding cash forecasting, working capital, outbound payments, financial messaging, fraud prevention, payment compliance, and more.

With over 11,000 banking options, $80 billion in daily cash managed, and $2.5 trillion in annual transaction volume, TIS has a proven track record of combining our unparalleled market expertise with tailored client and community feedback to drive digital transformation for companies of all sizes and industries. As a result, hundreds of organizations and thousands of practitioners rely on TIS daily to gain strategic advantage, monetize data, improve operational efficiency, and better manage risk. Learn more at https://www.tispayments.com/

About StoneX Global Payments

StoneX Global Payments is a product of the StoneX Group and specializes in cross-border payments. We offer tailor-made foreign exchange and payment services for corporates, NGOs, and financial institutions worldwide. Our global network of 350+ correspondent banks help us deliver transparent, secure, and guaranteed payments in more than 140 currencies across 180+ countries. Clients are able to gain access to our services through a highly scalable, efficient, and advanced payment platform that is easy to use.

StoneX Group Inc. and its subsidiaries are a leading provider of execution, risk management, advisory, market information, and clearing services for various asset classes and markets worldwide. Learn more at https://www.stonex.com or https://payments.stonex.com/

Contact Information
Jennifer Knutel
VP Marketing
jennifer.knutel@tispayments.com
978-875-2085

Marc Joppeck
Head of Sales & StoneX Payments Division Germany & Corporate Payments Europe
marc.joppeck@stonex.com

SOURCE: TIS