When it comes to finding, analyzing and acting on their company’s financial information, corporate finance departments, treasurers and chief financial officers (CFOs) expect the same ease and convenience they enjoy while managing their personal finances. That is reportedly why Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) is unveiling a powerful transaction search engine “with integrated investigation capabilities on CashPro.”
CashPro is the banking platform “used by 40,000 companies around the world to manage and monitor their payments, deposits, loans and trade finance transactions.”
The new capabilities were “developed with feedback from Bank of America’s clients and are the latest updates to CashPro Data Intelligence, a suite of tools that companies can use to gain insights on their treasury operations and processes.”
Christian Stolcke, head of Financial Institutions, NBFIs and Governments in Global Payments Solutions (GPS) at Bank of America, said:
“CashPro Search is a major time saver for our clients who’ve used it 7 million times since it was initially deployed. Within seconds, the tool searches across multiple accounts and applications to find a business transaction.”
In addition to speed, the search engine “delivers full visibility into a company’s transactions, providing details such as a payment status, incoming and outgoing messages, Swift GPI tracking details and images.”
From CashPro Search, clients can now “launch an inquiry into a transaction – an extremely common task in banking – to validate the status or details of a payment, which could include domestic or international wires, Automated Clearing House (ACH) Payments, Real-Time Payments, and even incoming FX credit transactions or loan proceeds.”
The data captured from the transaction inquiry “is automatically routed to the service team. Clients can track the progress of the resolution and get real-time status updates and even view correspondence from a beneficiary’s bank.”
Abbey Novack, CashPro Product Executive in GPS at Bank of America, said:
“Win-win may be an overused phrase but it’s the perfect way to describe the benefits of CashPro Search with Investigations. We’ve significantly streamlined service requests, so that rather than picking up the phone or having to send an email, a client can directly initiate and track their request within CashPro.”
Numerous CashPro related patents have been granted to date.
The result is a platform that “combines ease of use and broad, integrated functionality.”
Since its launch in September 2023, “more than 40% of CashPro clients have engaged with this virtual assistant to quickly view transactions, find information about their accounts and navigate CashPro functionality.”
Part of the CashPro Data Intelligence suite, CashPro Insights “was launched in January 2024 and analyzes a company’s information flowing through the platform to create insights on how the user can improve their operations and processes.”
This platform offers participants in “a supply chain the benefits of digitization with improved process efficiency and working capital optimization.”
Launched in September 2023, Open Account Automation is “the first module of CashPro Supply Chain Solutions, and addresses invoice approval and payment, one of the most common processes in global trade.”