Treasury & Cash Management

SOCIAL INTERACTION   By Hilary Johnson   Savvy executives can add value by under-standing how and when social media can be a tool to improve both internal and external communication.   No corporate treasury department is an island anymore. This ...

WOOING THE CORPORATE AUDIENCE   By Rebecca Brace   Going beyond connectivity is SWIFT’s mantra to corporates these days, but can the bank-owned organization be as fleet of foot as companies would like?   SWIFT’s corporate solutions were once limited ...

ADAPT TO SURVIVE   Being innovative is much more difficult to achieve than it is to discuss. Particularly in the highly complex, highly structured environment of the average transaction bank. Add in ever-tightening purse strings and the absolute requirement to ...

NEWSMAKERS: VENEZUELA   By Paula L. Green   Everyone from consumers weary of battling rising inflation to importers wrestling with a devalued currency and foreign and domestic investors whose companies were nationalized will have a stake in the actions Nelson José Merentes ...

BRIGHT STARS   By Thomas Clouse, Jonathan Gregson, Antonio Guerrero & Gordon Platt   Following a year that included some of the biggest scandals in banking history—the London Whale, the Libor rate-fixing scandal, widespread money laundering, insider trading, rogue trading and ...

MILESTONES: GLOBAL   By Ronald Fink   Cross-border dealmakers are anxiously awaiting the outcome of a long-running tax battle between UK telecom giant Vodafone and the Indian government.     Photo Credits: VODAFONE: CLIVE CHILVERS / Shutterstock.com The dispute dates back to ...

GROWING THREAT   By Valentina Pasquali   The frequency and severity of cyberattacks on businesses and organizations across the world have exploded in recent years, and so have the direct and indirect costs they inflict.   Global finance executives spend ...

PROTECTING THE BALANCE SHEET   By Paula Green   Companies using trade credit insurance to secure their bottom lines are finding a marketplace with ample capacity, expanding terms—and even new players.   Photo Credits: IGOR PLOTNIKOV / Shutterstock.com Trade credit ...

THE PENDULUM SWINGS By Paula Green At this month’s Salon, Global Finance sat down with Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, former chairman and CEO of AIG and current chairman and chief executive of CV Starr. Greenberg, who spent nearly four decades building ...

NEWSMAKERS: CHINA   By Luca Ventura   As China’s economy faces its slowest growth in more than a decade, the focus turns to the new Finance minister, Lou Jiwei. Lou, 63, has arguably the highest international profile among prime minister ...

LEBANON: RESTAKING ITS CLAIM AS A FINANCIAL HUB   By Gordon Platt   Global Finance interviews Lebanon’s central bank governor, Riad Salameh.   Riad Salameh has been Lebanon’s central bank governor for the past 20 years. He is credited with ...

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LATE THROUGH THE GATE   By Rebecca Brace   With less than a year to go before the SEPA migration end date of February 1, 2014, companies operating in Europe must get migration projects under way or face disruptions to ...

NEWSMAKERS: CYPRUS   By Justin Keay   With Cyprus in the midst of facing down the EU while battling to rescue its biggest banks, and during its worst economic crisis since independence in 1960— unemployment is above15%, and GDP could contract by ...

Jiro Okochi the CEO and Co-founder of Reval, addresses the evolving role of treasurers and the ways they are using next generation treasury technology to not only keep up with these changes but to continually innovate within their organizations.

RESERVE BANK OF INDIA PUSHES FOR GROWTH WITH RATE CUT   By Aaron Chaze The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut interest rates for the first time in nine months on January 30, reducing the repo rate by 25 basis ...

SYSTEMS AND SERVICES PROVIDERS   By Anita Hawser and Rebecca Brace   BEST TREASURY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND SERVICES PROVIDERS Accounts Payable Services BNY Mellon SourceNet Accounts Receivable Services SunGard AvantGard Receivables Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment Services Basware Payroll Services ...

ADAPT TO SURVIVE   By Michael Shari   A unique banking system long revered as a safe haven for the world’s tax dodgers now faces gut-wrenching transformation in order to endure.   For centuries Swiss banks have thrived on absolute ...