Treasury & Cash Management

COVER STORY: THE NEW RISKS   By Laurence Neville   Last year the global economy dodged some scary-looking bullets. This year it might not be so lucky.   As volatile and unnerving as it was, 2010 provided a welcome respite ...

TOOLBOX: CORPORATE CREDIT CARDS   By Denise Bedell   Businesses discover the benefits of linking corporate card programs with other parts of the physical and financial supply chain.   As automated expense management solutions become ever more integrated with other ...

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT   By Denise Bedell   Corporates are demanding increasingly sophisticated cash and trade solutions within Asia. Those banks that want to stay competitive must step up their game.   Asia is a key growth area for transaction banking ...

WORLD’S BEST TREASURY PROVIDERS 2010   By Anita Hawser   Twelve months ago when we published the 2009 Treasury & Cash Management awards, treasurers were mostly concerned with preserving capital and reducing counterparty risk. While these concerns have not subsided, ...

ANNUAL SURVEY: WORLD’S BEST BANKS A selection from Global Finance’s best banks awards from the past year.   BEST FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROVIDERS   BEST DERIVATIVES PROVIDERS   BEST SUB-CUSTODIANS BEST SUB-CUSTODIANS (cont.)   BEST ISLAMIC FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS   BEST TREASURY ...

NEWSMAKERS: GLOBAL By Michael Shari   As finance ministers and top executives of the world's largest banks converge in Washington for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank this month, a simmering diplomatic conflict between ...

MILESTONES: GLOBAL By Anita Hawser It is not just banks that are coming under increasing criticism for their liquidity-hoarding tendencies. Cash-rich companies are facing similar complaints—and similar accusations that they are prolonging the pain in the economy as a whole ...

BANKS MAKE A BID FOR A GROWING MARKET   By Anita Hawser   Technological innovations and the rapid acceleration of globalization are driving a sharp increase in banks' interest in the remittances market.   We are on the cusp of ...

UNCHARTED TERRITORY   By Anita Hawser   Banks are struggling to keep up with nonbank rivals in the race to create the next generation of payment systems.   It may have been unfettered innovation that got banks into hot water ...

By Anita Hawser   Having survived one of the worst recessions on record, companies understand better than ever that treasury management is important for improved efficiency, whether through tightening their accounts-receivable or accounts-payable processes to unlock working capital or limiting ...

DATA ANALYTICS   Analytics solutions pull data from disparate sources to provide a big-picture view of operations and exposures.   By Denise Bedell   In the wake of the financial crisis, the job of the treasurer has increasingly focused on ...

SHARED SERVICE CENTERS   There are many options for how to set up and roll out a shared service center, providing an approach for every budget and corporate structure. By Denise Bedell   As the recession thaws and purse strings ...

WHO'S WHO   Who’s Who in Treasury and Cash Management   By Vanessa Drucker   Donald E. Berk Senior Vice President, Corporate & Institutional Services Northern Trust   As director of product and process management for enterprise banking services at ...

FX EXPOSURE MANAGEMENT   Currency volatility is increasing, and companies are finding that more than ever they need to have an effective FX hedging strategy in place.   By Anita Hawser   Frank Pirozzi is the assistant treasurer at Red ...

TECHNOLOGY & TREASURY MANAGEMENT — TREASURY SOLUTIONS   Treasury modules offered by enterprise resource planning systems providers are threatening full-suite treasury systems.   By Denise Bedell   As companies focus more on cost savings, there is an equilibrium that must ...

ENABLE EFFICIENCY   Welcome to the first Technology & Treasury Management Supplement Global Finance has published. We recognize that technology has always been a key enabler of treasury management, with treasury management workstations and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems facilitating ...

TECHNOLOGY & TREASURY MANAGEMENT — E-INVOICING Companies are taking a second look at electronic invoicing as they begin to evaluate longer-term efficiency and cost reduction programs for the financial supply chain.   By Denise Bedell   With the treasury and ...

RISK AND REWARD Businesses are increasingly seeking to outsource parts of their accounting processes and discovering that contingency planning is becoming more important than ever. By Denise Bedell With external liquidity tight over the past two years, many corporations have ...