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CARD TRICKS By Denise Bedell Advanced card solutions are helping companies extend working capital cycles while improving suppliers' cash flow. The drive to automate payments has been a long-term trend, pushed further by the global financial crisis ...
Global Finance names the World's Best Treasury & Cash Management Providers 2012 NEW YORK, January 19, 2012 – Global Finance magazine has released its rankings for the Best Treasury and Cash Management Banks and Providers by category and region to ...
Europe may be the center of attention at the start of the new year, but it is certainly not the only area of the world that worries economists and policymakers...
PLANNING FOR THE EURO CRISIS By Jonathan Gregson Given the massive financial and contractual impacts of any breakup of the eurozone, it is only to be expected that international companies with European operations, or ties to Europe are ...
AWARDS CEREMONY : LOCATION BEIJING China’s Bright Lights Global Finance hosted its annual Stars of China awards ceremony and dinner in Beijing in November. Banks and companies were honored for their outstanding performance over the past year. ...
SPONSORED ROUNDTABLE: TECHNOLOGY GAME CHANGERS Moderated by Denise Bedell Liquidity and risk management, treasury efficiency, eBAM, SWIFT for corporates, and mobile treasury apps were center stage during Global Finance ’s TCM roundtable in New York in November. From ...
TAX CUTS TO RESTART THE BRAZILIAN ECONOMY By Antonio Guerrero Aiming to shield the economy from the potential fallout of Europe’s debt crisis, the Brazilian government took fiscal policy steps that include $1.5 billion in tax cuts. Chevron ...
THE JOURNEY BEGINS By Denise Bedell Upcoming end-dates for Sepa migration prompt companies to begin planning projects. Corporates in Europe are facing the inevitability of Sepa compliance in or around 2014—when end-dates for migration from domestic legacy ...
DIRECTORY A listing of TCM service and solution providers Banking Service Providers Bank of America Merrill Lynch CONTACT: Paul Simpson, Head of Global Transaction Services EMAIL: gcbkmarketing@bankofamerica.com www.corp.bankofamerica.com/business/bi/global ING Area of focus: International Cash Management Email: Commercial@ing.lu ...
ON THE RIGHT PATH By Denise Bedell Enterprise risk management is now a central theme for treasurers at large corporates. Both regulatory changes and business benefits are driving the increased focus. The financial trauma of the past ...
THE WINDING ROAD By Denise Bedell Onshoring renminbi funds issued in the offshore markets is becoming easier, but it is still a complex process. Getting regulators involved early can help. China is ever more important in the ...
BEATING BUREAUCRACY AND TAXES By Anita Hawser With Brazil now firmly on the map as global economic power, treasuries want to include it in their global cash solutions. But many regulatory, legal and taxation issues still obstruct that ...
MOBILIZING EXCESS CASH At most cash and treasury management conferences these days, treasurers are concerned with one of two things: ensuring they play a more strategic role within companies above and beyond managing a piggy bank of money; and ...
WHO’S WHO By Paula Green Who’s Who In Treasury And Cash Management Scott Barton RBS Chief Executive Officer Global Transaction Services Scott Barton began working with RBS 16 years ago after his tenure with Andersen Consulting. ...
MILESTONES: UNITED STATES By Anita Hawser There is nothing quite like the threat of a debt default and a whopping budget deficit to focus policymakers’ minds on cutting costs. E–invoicing to reduce Treasury costs In an effort to ...
COVER STORY: MISSING PIECES By Michael Shari Corporations are adding up the costs—and looking at alternatives to increasingly expensive banking services. It would be hard to find a multinational corporation with a firmer grip on the intricacies ...
THE NEXT FRONTIER By Anita Hawser Take-up of mobile banking services is accelerating as services—and the devices they run on—become ever more sophisticated. At an annual gathering of the world’s largest corporate and investment banks held in ...
THE WORKING CAPITAL TRANSFORMATION By Denise Bedell Companies are looking to technology to help them delve deeper into their working capital processes. The debate that has long raged over whether enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can compare ...
EXPOSING FOREIGN EXCHANGE RISK By Denise Bedell Companies with international operations are looking beyond spreadsheets to get a timelier view of their global FX exposures. Within a few hours of Osama bin Laden’s being killed, global markets ...
