Effective liquidity management is as much an art as a science. The main objectives of cash and liquidity management are to free up all the company's cash whilst minimising processing costs, to…
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At the Association of Corporate Treasurers Cash Management in London last week a panel made up of Maurice Cleaves - Barclays, Ian Armstrong - AMEC, Angela Clark - Misys, and Paul Outridge - De La Rue and the audienc
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Since the People's Bank of China (PBC) introduced the renminbi (RMB) cross-border initiative in July 2009 to promote the internationalisation of RMB, the number of activities in Singapore for offshore RMB solutions
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Companies in the Middle East are looking for maximum security in trade transactions after being doubly hit by the financial crisis and the Arab Spring. Middle East companies and banks are being extremely cautious wh
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China's forex regulators issued a new guideline on January 28 simplifying repatriation of IPO
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RGI, posted another new high of 748 in December, up 2.8% from November's 728 in part due to
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Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singa
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LIBOR is currently published for ten currencies and fifteen maturities. The ACT regards the availability of reference rates such as BBA LIBOR as very important and functioning as a significant public good. For users
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The article by Gavin Hinks, in The Treasurer in September 2012, gives several important tips about how to free your cash:
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Citibank India has teamed up with a local tech firm Ezetap on a Square-like App and reader-based system for turning mobile phones into card payment acceptance devices which will make it much easier for merchants to
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Citibank (China) Co., Ltd. ("Citi China") today announced the completion of the first cross-border lending transaction in Renminbi (RMB) by a foreign bank in China.
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HSBC China is the first foreign bank to obtain approval from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) to implement a foreign currency netting solution for the trade of goods in China; this has been obtain
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There also a very clever 6th option, if you've got the companies to do it.
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Standard Chartered Bank (China) Limited and Shell (China) Co. Ltd. today announced that they have been granted approval to set up a Foreign Currency Cross-border Sweeping structure. The structure, approved by the Ch
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On 10 December, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) issued the final regulatory requirements for Canadian banks under Basel III, effective first quarter 2013. The announcement comes jus
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with tri-party agents - Euroclear and ClearStream - that will allow clients to consolidate
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The recent deregulation by SAFE and PBOC allows MNC groups to establish " cross-border cash pooling " structure to link it's domestic cash pool with overseas cash pools.
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This hard hitting article by Mayra Rodriguez Valladares in the American Banker starts with a question: "How do you get 27 countries with different cultures and political systems, often at different points of the cre
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Christoph Nelischer, Willis Treasurer, describing his implementation of a Asia-Pacific cash management solution at the Eurofinance conference, explained: "You really have to engage the business. Consult on all level
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The latest example of the expansion of e-cash in Africa is in Rwanda where the mobile payment platform MobiCash and financial institution KCB Bank has launched BioCash, a financial service that uses the national ID
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Volatile markets and shifting regulations require a dynamic approach to managing the treasury project queue. Treasury Alliance have put together a list of ten projects that may have slipped your list including SEPA
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You have to see this video from YouTube.. This piss take of Dick Fuld and other familiar figures from the dark days of 2008 is just great and hard hitting.
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In assisting clients with their tax preparation and compliance obligations, the use of tax technology by PwC will help to improve efficiency, accuracy and reduce risk in tax compliance. China's changing tax environm
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At the recent Cash Management University in Paris, BNP Paribas explained how there are now five ways to release trapped cash in China:
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In a session at NACHA's 2012 Global Payments Strategies Conference, Alfred Nader, vice president, corporate strategy and development at Western Union Business Solutions, urged corporates to trade in renminbi with th
