Treasury & Cash Management

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 ...

Chinese Cash Management Comes of  Age As inbound investment into China and outbound investment by Chinese companies into regional and global markets have increased, so too have the cash management needs and wants of domestic companies and foreign multinationals in ...

  AFTER THE MAELSTROM   At a recent roundtable, Global Finance brought together some of the leaders in the treasury and cash management industry to discuss technology, corporate behavior and the realities of the post-crisis world.   Moderated by Joseph ...

CORPORATE CARDS GO GLOBAL AND VIRTUAL   Companies are reworking their corporate card programs and setting up new corporate purchase card programs to improve spend management and gain greater control over global expenses.   By Denise Bedell     Companies ...

Global   Gordon Platt   London: G-20 members agree to greater coordination The Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank governors agreed at a meeting in London on September 5 that it was far too early to begin unwinding ...

By Anita Hawser Europe Editor anita@gfinance.co.uk     A lot of the traditional services cash management banks provided to their customers in the lead-up to the financial crisis around collections, liquidity, risk and working capital management are featuring more prominently ...

PAPERLESS PAYMENTS TAKE OFF   Paperless invoicing is gaining popularity as efforts to create standardized processes gather momentum.   By Anita Hawser   Electronic invoicing (e-invoicing) may have gone through peaks and troughs over the past decade or so when ...