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CHANGING INVESTMENT STRATEGIES CORPORATE TOOLBOX / SHORT-TERM INVESTING Credit market turmoil has forced corporate treasurers to re-evaluate their investment strategies. They are scrutinizing short-term investments for their strength and creditworthiness and demanding much greater information from the banks with whom ...
ANNUAL SURVEY/ TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT Global Finance selects the best treasury and cash management banks, globally and by region, and the best providers of treasury management systems and services by category. The past year has seen the challenges facing ...
BRANCHING OUT Advances in technology are helping treasury and cash management specialists provide their organizations and clients with greater depth and breadth of services. Gary Greenwald heads global capabilities and information products for global transaction services cash management ...
SECTOR REPORT / TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT Large corporations are leaping at the chance to connect directly to the banks’ financial messaging network. Some of the banks are not so keen, though. Afew years ago, many companies had probably never ...
CORPORATE ID MANAGEMENT As corporate treasury systems become increasingly automated, businesses and their banking partners are devising innovative techniques to ensure only authorized personnel can make payments. Wendel: In approximately 25% of cases, account signatories are wrong. Hans-Maarten van ...
EXCHANGE CHANGE ONLINE FOREIGN EXCHANGE Key players in the online foreign exchange markets are hoping that new entrants and the integration of interdealer and dealer-to-client platforms will end the stagnation that is hindering workflow development. Theodorou: Many ...
GLOBAL LIQUIDITY Corporates have long dreamt of being able to see liquidity in real time on a global basis. This dream is becoming a reality as banks and systems suppliers provide the real-time reporting and systems integration necessary to make ...
“WHO’S WHO” IN TREASURY AND CASH MANAGEMENT TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT 2007 Anne Boden Head, Transaction Banking, Europe ABN AMRO Anne Boden manages ABN AMRO Transaction Banking across Europe. She is also responsible for preparing it for future ...
Welcome to Global Finance’s annual Treasury & Cash Management Guide, in which we explore the latest trends and issues in the world of global cash management...
FINANCIAL SOFTWARE / CASH MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS A new generation of mobile technology promises to bring comprehensive remote access to corporate finance systems for executives on the road. For many companies, mobile phones, PDAs and other mobile devices ...
FOCUS / TREASURY MANAGEMENT On-demand software services are making increasingly sophisticated treasury management systems available to a much wider range of companies. Atypical day in the life of a corporate treasurer entails managing the company’s cash, ensuring ...
TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT Global Finance brings together some of the top figures in treasury management to discuss the influence that clients’ rapidly evolving needs are having on their business. Greenwald, King and Franco (left to right) discuss developments in ...
Global Finance selects the best treasury and cash management banks, globally and by region, and the best providers of treasury management systems and services by category. Treasury and cash management is becoming an increasingly global business, and customers are looking ...
Long predicted to be the next killer app for treasurers, e-invoicing has been slow to take off. That is all beginning to change now. The growth of corporate electronic invoice presentment and payment (EIPP) has not been nearly as explosive ...
Centralizing treasury and finance functions is an ever more popular way for companies to reduce costs, improve investment strategies and control risks. With increasing trends toward globalization, automation and standardization, more and more companies are centralizing their treasury and finance ...
In the world of cash forecasting, change is accelerating as more and more companies look to improve forecasting in order to better manage liquidity. When Global Finance launched 20 years ago, cash forecasting was in its infancy. There was little ...
TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT Global Finance brought together some of the leading figures in the treasury and cash management field to discuss current and future trends in their industry. GLOBAL FINANCE: Direct corporate access to SWIFT has been approved and ...
THE AMERICAS The US administration’s assertion that its dollar policy remains unchanged did little to clarify exactly what that policy is, analysts say. President Bush’s comments in early June that the dollar was devalued inappropriately and that the administration’s policy ...
Every year, new disruptive technologies are wafted, tantalisingly, in front of treasurers at one of the biggest events in the corporate treasury calendar, EuroFinance. For the last couple of years, Innovation Alley and the tech breakout sessions have allowed the normally risk-averse world of treasury to dip their toes in technologies like blockchain, machine-learning and cryptocurrencies. Most treasurers wouldn’t touch cryptocurrencies with a barge pole. As guardians of a company’s cash and liquidity, their job is to preserve capital—not bet it on risky investments in cryptocurrencies or blockchain pilots.
