Features : World's Best Treasury & Cash Management Providers

WORLD’S BESTB ANKS

The big international banks make it look easy, sweeping up dollars and euros and various other currencies from remote corners of the world and investing the resulting cash pile in the highest-yielding instruments with acceptable risks, in order to boost a client’s return on equity.

The job is easier said than done, however, and involves a host of behind-the-scenes providers of technology as well as innova-tive bankers who figure out how to move money with the sun, or leave it sitting where it is, and invest the notional balance ef-ficiently in a far-off land. Not only does effective cash management help unlock working capital, but the outsourcing of rou-tine operations also frees corporate treasurers to focus on risk management, long-term funding and business strategy.

With input from industry analysts, corporate executives and technology experts, Global Finance selected the best providers of treasury and cash-management services,globally and in nine cat-egories across four regions of the world. A variety of subjective and objective criteria were used for choosing the winners. Fac-tors considered include market leadership, customer service, competitive pricing and innovative technologies.