Independent
Advice starts with the client’s exposure, process, and objectives, not with a product quota.
Independent, practical, conflict-aware
Why Bastion
Treasury expertise without the full-time treasury department.
The SME treasury gap
Most growing companies have treasury responsibilities, even when they do not have a treasury team.
Currency purchases, cash forecasting, payment approvals, exposure tracking, bank relationships, and policy decisions often sit inside accounting or finance. That can work for a while. As cross-border activity grows, the hidden cost is less visibility, more reactive decisions, and unclear ownership.
Bastion fills that gap with specialist treasury and FX support that is designed for SMEs and practical finance teams.
- Hidden FX spreads and unclear counterparty pricing
- USD/CAD exposure managed only when invoices arrive
- No formal FX policy or hedge governance
- Manual payment processes and inconsistent approvals
- Cash-flow visibility gaps across currencies
- Finance teams stretched beyond their core accounting mandate
The Bastion model
Independent advice, practical implementation, clear client benefit.
Bastion is positioned as an independent treasury and FX partner, not an opaque execution venue. The goal is to help clients make better decisions, understand costs, and build better workflows.
Fee-based where applicable
The work can be separated from transaction commission incentives where the engagement structure allows.
Agent capacity
Bastion can help clients evaluate counterparties and processes with the client’s interests in view.
Transparent
Pricing, trade rationale, governance, and risk limitations should be understandable to non-specialists.
Analytical
Recommendations are grounded in exposure mapping, cost analysis, and market context.
Practical
Deliverables are built for finance teams that need decisions, templates, workflows, and rollout support.
What changes
Better treasury management turns uncertainty into a process.
Cost transparency
Understand where FX costs are created and how they can be negotiated or controlled.
Better FX execution
Move from reactive purchases to a clearer policy, schedule, and approval structure.
Cash-flow visibility
Connect currency exposure, payment timing, and liquidity needs into one picture.
Practical policies
Document risk appetite, responsibilities, hedge permissions, and reporting cadence.
Reduced burden
Give finance teams tools, templates, and outside support so treasury work does not stay ad hoc.
Decision support
Use market context and company data to make timely, defensible treasury decisions.
When to talk to us
Triggers that usually mean treasury needs more structure.
- Growing USD/CAD exposure
- Paying international suppliers
- Margin pressure from FX
- No formal FX policy
- Unclear broker or bank markups
- Manual treasury processes
- Increasing cross-border payment volume
- New international customers or suppliers
Start with a Free Treasury Audit.
We will help identify what to fix first and what can wait.