Panax and RSM Collaborate to Advance AI-Powered Treasury Managed Services
New York, September 17, 2026 – Panax, a leader in AI-native cash and treasury management, and RSM US LLP ("RSM"), the leading provider of consulting, tax and assurance services for the middle market, today announced a collaboration to help organizations improve liquidity visibility, cash forecasting and treasury operations. As part of RSM's treasury transformation offerings, the collaboration combines Panax's AI-native platform with RSM's treasury advisory expertise to help organizations build more scalable and data-driven treasury functions.
Panax's AI-native platform helps organizations move away from manual treasury processes toward a more intelligent and scalable operating model. Designed for lean finance teams, the platform connects banking and financial data to support real-time cash visibility, forecasting and treasury execution, helping organizations optimize liquidity and improve financial decision-making.
"Finance leaders are under increasing pressure to deliver both control and agility," said Niv Yaar, co-founder and CBO of Panax. "By working together with RSM, we're enabling organizations to reimagine treasury, moving away from manual processes and legacy tools into a world of proactive, automated and increasingly intelligent finance operations. Together, we empower companies to forecast with confidence, automate complex treasury workflows and deploy their capital more effectively."
"Treasury leaders are being asked to improve liquidity management, forecasting accuracy and strategic decision-making while operating with lean teams and increasing complexity,” said Valerio Trinchi, treasury practice leader at RSM. “Through our collaboration with Panax, we can help organizations modernize treasury operations in a way that combines technology enablement with the governance, processes and operating model changes required to create sustainable value."
The collaboration supports organizations at different stages of treasury transformation, from improving cash visibility and forecasting processes to developing more scalable operating models that support growth and complexity.
About Panax
Panax is an AI-native treasury and cash operations platform that helps finance teams automate and optimize liquidity management, cash forecasting, reconciliation and treasury workflows. Connected directly across banks and ERPs, Panax transforms fragmented financial data into intelligent execution and proactive financial decision-making. Panax is trusted by leading finance teams of more than 100 customers globally, including many PE-backed and publicly traded companies, and has rapidly expanded across the U.S. and Europe as organizations modernize their finance infrastructure with AI.
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Today’s CFOs aren’t just closing the budget, they’re driving sustainable business growth. They’re expected to drive innovation, expansion, and digital transformation for the business, while safeguarding fiscal discipline, regulatory compliance, and risk management.
But in a world where interest rates, inflation, and global trade conditions can shift overnight, this is tricky. So CFOs need to act with speed, agility, and precision.
Achieving this requires using AI, automation, and predictive analytics to guide strategy; keeping data clean, governed, and connected across systems; staying ahead of ESG and tax rules; building teams fluent in both numbers and technology; and managing input from boards, investors, regulators, and business leaders. All, without losing focus.
In such an environment, the true measure of a CFO’s leadership lies in their ability to turn reactive tasks into proactive decision-making, risk into opportunity, and foresight into measurable, lasting value.
What a load.
What is the CFO Mindmap?
The CFO Mindmap isa visual framework of the modern CFO’s 2025 responsibilities. It organizes all the key domains, responsibilities, priorities, and decision areas of a CFO in a holistic and structured way. With the CFO Mindmap, financial leaders can strategize, plan and enhance their financial programs for the next 12-18 months.
We built the CFO mindmap based on in-depth conversations with dozens of CFOs, spanning our own customers, industry peers, and finance leaders we engaged with on LinkedIn, at events, and through professional forums. By synthesizing these real-world insights with market research and trend analysis, we created a mindmap that reflects both the day-to-day realities and the strategic imperatives of modern finance leadership.
How to use the CFO Mindmap
The CFO Mindmap helps CFOs focus on what matters most and lead with clarity and alignment.
The CFO Mindmap can be used for:
Strategy and planning of the upcoming year(s)
Aligning the team on roles and responsibilities
Facilitating conversations across the organization
Benchmarking focus and priority topics to the rest of the industry
Serving as an educational and awareness-raising tool.
The CFO Mindmap domains
We’ve mapped the modern CFO’s world across 14 key domains, from cash flow and compliance to AI, ESG, and beyond.
Not surprisingly, AI has become a central theme in these domains. As AI becomes a core driver of transformation in finance, it plays a role in every one of the 14 domains outlined in the mindmap (as well as having a domain of its own). This means that AI is both a supporting tool and a core component of the modern CFO’s agenda.
Focus areas and recommendations for 2025-2026
The CFO mindmap is an extensive, strategic blueprint that captures the full scope of a modern finance leader’s responsibilities, challenges, and opportunities. It distills complex priorities into a single, comprehensive view. This enables CFOs to quickly identify focus areas, uncover gaps, and align actions with the organization’s broader vision.
But to make it even more actionable, below are the top recommendations derived from this framework and the modern challenges CFOs are facing.
1 - AI-Native becomes a must
If a resource is published in 2025 and doesn’t mention AI, does it even get read?
In 2025-6, the key to driving strategic growth and mitigating risks is AI. Whether the issue is manual workflows, fragmented data, static reporting, inaccurate forecasts, or slow decision-making, AI can help.
AI embeds automation and insights into financial workflows, proactively surfacing opportunities and recommendations. These capabilities enable finance leaders to make faster, more informed decisions, maintain tighter liquidity control, and scale operations without adding headcount.
The recommendation: Replace guesswork and reactive processes with AI-native, always-on intelligence so you can move from scattered, slow decision cycles to a confident, strategic, and opportunity-driven finance function.
2 - AI Risks vs. rewards
AI is not a plug and play solution.
While AI offers finance teams unprecedented agility, visibility, and risk insight, it also introduces challenges and risks that must be addressed to ensure financial stability.
Key risks include data leakage(exposing highly sensitive financial and counterparty information), AI hallucinations (where flawed outputs could drive poor decisions) ensuring compliance, ensuring data quality, and securing connections between AI models and external data sources.
The recommendation: Adopt a disciplined AI strategy anchored in strong data governance, context-aware fact-checking, and privacy safeguards. This includes validating outputs before use in decision-making, implementing permission controls for data access, avoiding insecure input into public AI tools, and ensuring regulatory compliance frameworks are met. Plus, a robust, well-structured data infrastructure ensures accurate, timely, and properly modeled data maximizes AI’s value and minimizes errors.
Not sure where to start? We recommend paying a visit to your CTO.
3 - Gatekeepers vs. growth
“The evolving role of the CFO…”
Traditionally, CFOs were seen primarily as budget protectors. Their focus was on safeguarding resources, minimizing risk, and ensuring that financial processes ran smoothly and efficiently.
While those responsibilities remain, today’s business environment demands much more. Modern CFOs are expected to actively identify and pursue opportunities for growth, like optimizing working capital or strategically allocating investment.
The recommendation: AI equips CFOs with the ability to spot opportunities faster, assess investment impact, and adapt strategies to shifting market conditions. Look for AI tools that can help you model multiple financial scenarios, so you can make decisions based on data while still managing the risk.
4 - 24/7 Continuity
What are your plans for Saturday night?
Cash flow, risk, and opportunity don’t pause for business hours. Round-the-clock operations ensure that insights, alerts, and actions happen in real time and AI can flag and potentially act on opportunities (within approved guardrails) while you sleep. This constant operational alertness safeguards the business from disruptions, enhances agility, and empowers you and your time as strategic professional leaders.
The recommendation: Prioritize investing in finance tools that deliver rapid ROI and operate around the clock, including continuous, real-time monitoring and AI decision support.
What’s Next?
You’re welcome to share with your colleagues.
We’re diving into the Mindmap in a series of webinars with global CFOs. Watch the first one here.
If you have feedback, additions or would like to participate in the CFO Mindmap webinar series, please contact us.
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