Harsh Thakkar
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Perspectives on liquidity, treasury and product design.

Product perspectives on building liquidity, treasury and financial products around real client needs, scalable platforms and better cash outcomes.

LIQUIDITY & TREASURY

Designing liquidity products around visibility, control and action.

Product thinking around the structures corporate treasury teams use to gain visibility, control and efficiency over cash.

VIRTUAL ACCOUNTS

Virtual accounts are more than a reconciliation tool.

The strongest VAM propositions combine account rationalization, granular cash attribution and configurable hierarchies — extending virtual accounts beyond reconciliation into broader treasury operating models.

Product lens → Design the hierarchy and reporting model before designing the screens.
LIQUIDITY

Cash visibility is only useful when it leads to action.

Liquidity products create more value when visibility connects directly to concentration, funding, investment and exception workflows — moving treasury from seeing cash to acting on it.

Product lens → Connect insight, decision and execution.
CASH CONCENTRATION

Sweep flexibility is where complexity—and differentiation—lives.

Target balances, thresholds, timing and exception rules determine whether concentration works in practice. Scalable products need flexibility without creating operational burden.

Product lens → Standardize the engine; configure the client structure.
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Building scalable products from complex financial problems.

Lessons from building financial products where client needs, technology, operations, risk and commercialization all intersect.

PRODUCT STRATEGY

Start with the treasury problem, not the feature request.

A request for a report, sweep rule or account type often points to a larger operating problem. Understanding the underlying workflow helps turn one-off requests into reusable capabilities.

Principle → Solve the underlying problem in a way that can scale to more clients.
PRIORITIZATION

Good prioritization balances client value with platform leverage.

In banking, the loudest requirement is not automatically the most valuable. Prioritization should balance client impact, strategic fit, commercial value, risk, feasibility and platform leverage.

Principle → Prioritize outcomes and reusable capabilities, not just requests.
WHAT I’M WATCHING

Where treasury and transaction banking are evolving.

Areas that continue to reshape how liquidity and transaction-banking products are designed.

REAL-TIME TREASURY

From end-of-day liquidity to more continuous decisioning.

Faster payments, richer data and API connectivity are increasing expectations for more timely cash visibility and treasury actions.

EMBEDDED TREASURY

Liquidity capabilities are moving closer to client workflows.

APIs and platform models create opportunities to surface account, payment and liquidity capabilities inside the systems where businesses already operate.

DATA & REPORTING

Transaction data is becoming part of the product—not an output.

Better attribution, structured data and configurable reporting can reduce reconciliation effort while giving treasury teams more useful operating intelligence.