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Control Who Can Approve and Release Payments

"I want to know who can do what, and how to control access to bank mandates and payment approvals."

  1. 1
    Problem

    Get a clear picture of who is actually authorized on which bank account today.

    ARTICLE

    Low-Cost Solution for Bank Mandates & Treasury Data Repository

  2. 2
    Mechanism

    Understand how approval workflows and segregation of duties are meant to work.

    TOOL

    How Segregation of Duties Actually Works in Payments

    An annotated walkthrough of maker/checker roles across initiation, approval, and release — plus the role combinations that quietly break the control.

  3. 3
    Example

    Follow one concrete approval workflow end to end, with clear ownership at each step.

    ARTICLE

    Building a Treasury Bot for Payment Approval Automation

  4. 4
    Tool

    Document who currently has access to what, before you change anything.

    TOOL

    Access & Approval Matrix

    Document who can view, initiate, approve, and release for one account — the tool flags it if the same person can initiate and approve.

  5. 5
    Implementation questions

    Identify what to clarify with the bank and with IT before changing any mandate or access rule.

    TOOL

    Access & Approval Matrix — "To Clarify" list

    The same tool generates this from whatever you left as "I don't know" about who can do what.