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21 September 2026
Starting Your Treasury Career? Start Here. When you’re early in your treasury career, everything can feel a bit unclear. What should you focus on? What actually matters to hiring managers? And how do you go from “doing the job” [...]
17 December 2025
A countdown from 15 to 1 Before we get into the countdown, a quick headline stat that still makes me smile. Over 1 million LinkedIn impressions in 2025 so far 🎉 1,013,301 to be precise! https://youtu.be/S3L8likyZqE Thank you [...]
27 October 2026
A client said something to me recently that I hear more often when the job market slows down: “It’s an employer’s market now.” The implication being there are more candidates available, so employers hold all the cards. They can [...]
20 October 2026
A client recently asked me to help with a treasury search. Due to internal sensitivities, they asked whether I could start to approach candidates without telling them… the company… the target salary… or where the role was based And [...]
13 October 2026
A young treasury professional I spoke to recently was worried he was heading that way. He’d spent most of his first year working in cash management and operations, but wanted to get into investments and capital markets. And he [...]
6 October 2026
A few years ago, you couldn’t go to a treasury conference without hearing about blockchain. It was going to change everything. There were presentations, webinars, panel discussions and an awful lot of noise. Then... Well, not a lot happened [...]
29 September 2026
Imagine you could sit down for half an hour with someone who’s already reached the position in their career that you’d like to reach. Would you jump at the opportunity? Or would you say; “No thanks, your job’s too [...]
22 September 2026
Earlier this year, I spent weeks travelling between treasury conferences, events and meetings. Texas Liverpool The West Coast London Amsterdam At one point, I got back from the US on a Sunday, drove to Liverpool on the Monday, spoke [...]
15 September 2026
Every so often, I hear the same claim… Treasury is too small to produce reliable salary benchmarks. Apparently, there simply isn’t enough data. That simply is NOT true. Having benchmarked treasury salaries for more than 20 years, and with [...]
8 September 2026
I keep seeing recruiters announcing on LinkedIn that they've been "retained" to recruit another senior treasury role. Sometimes they even add that it's confidential. But I always find myself thinking... Are you really retained, or are you just pretending? [...]
1 September 2026
I saw someone experience one of my own personal nightmares the other day. Their event had completely flopped. Lots of people had booked… And no one showed up. They’d posted about it on LinkedIn, but what struck me was [...]
25 August 2026
Every week, I receive emails that all sound something like this: "Mike, could I borrow 15 or 20 minutes of your time?" Sometimes it's someone wanting career advice. Sometimes it's someone trying to move from banking into corporate treasury. [...]
18 August 2026
Every week, I sit down to write this newsletter with one question in mind: What's the conversation treasury professionals need to be having right now? It could be about careers. Sometimes it's about hiring. Or usually it’s something from [...]
21 September 2026
Starting Your Treasury Career? Start Here. When you’re early in your treasury career, everything can feel a bit unclear. What should you focus on? What actually matters to hiring managers? And how do you go from “doing the job” [...]
17 December 2025
A countdown from 15 to 1 Before we get into the countdown, a quick headline stat that still makes me smile. Over 1 million LinkedIn impressions in 2025 so far 🎉 1,013,301 to be precise! https://youtu.be/S3L8likyZqE Thank you [...]
27 October 2026
A client said something to me recently that I hear more often when the job market slows down: “It’s an employer’s market now.” The implication being there are more candidates available, so employers hold all the cards. They can [...]
20 October 2026
A client recently asked me to help with a treasury search. Due to internal sensitivities, they asked whether I could start to approach candidates without telling them… the company… the target salary… or where the role was based And [...]
13 October 2026
A young treasury professional I spoke to recently was worried he was heading that way. He’d spent most of his first year working in cash management and operations, but wanted to get into investments and capital markets. And he [...]
6 October 2026
A few years ago, you couldn’t go to a treasury conference without hearing about blockchain. It was going to change everything. There were presentations, webinars, panel discussions and an awful lot of noise. Then... Well, not a lot happened [...]
29 September 2026
Imagine you could sit down for half an hour with someone who’s already reached the position in their career that you’d like to reach. Would you jump at the opportunity? Or would you say; “No thanks, your job’s too [...]
22 September 2026
Earlier this year, I spent weeks travelling between treasury conferences, events and meetings. Texas Liverpool The West Coast London Amsterdam At one point, I got back from the US on a Sunday, drove to Liverpool on the Monday, spoke [...]
15 September 2026
Every so often, I hear the same claim… Treasury is too small to produce reliable salary benchmarks. Apparently, there simply isn’t enough data. That simply is NOT true. Having benchmarked treasury salaries for more than 20 years, and with [...]
8 September 2026
I keep seeing recruiters announcing on LinkedIn that they've been "retained" to recruit another senior treasury role. Sometimes they even add that it's confidential. But I always find myself thinking... Are you really retained, or are you just pretending? [...]
1 September 2026
I saw someone experience one of my own personal nightmares the other day. Their event had completely flopped. Lots of people had booked… And no one showed up. They’d posted about it on LinkedIn, but what struck me was [...]
25 August 2026
Every week, I receive emails that all sound something like this: "Mike, could I borrow 15 or 20 minutes of your time?" Sometimes it's someone wanting career advice. Sometimes it's someone trying to move from banking into corporate treasury. [...]
18 August 2026
Every week, I sit down to write this newsletter with one question in mind: What's the conversation treasury professionals need to be having right now? It could be about careers. Sometimes it's about hiring. Or usually it’s something from [...]
11 August 2026
Whenever I look back at the careers of the most successful treasury professionals I’ve spoken to, there's usually one thing they have in common… Things rarely went smoothly. At some point in everyone’s career, something sprang out at them [...]
4 August 2026
A few months ago, we held one of our Treasury Leaders Roundtables in New York. We had senior treasury professionals from a range of businesses sharing what was working, what wasn't, and the challenges they were all facing. The [...]
28 July 2026
I still receive about 5-10 emails every single week from people working in banking who want my help to move into corporate treasury. So if you've emailed me recently, please don't take this personally, but my answer is often [...]
