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Cash & Liquidity Management

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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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Cash & Liquidity Management

Boosting cash management in a decentralised company

by Kylene Casanova

Centralisation isn't ideal for all companies and yet, decentralised companies can be at a disadvantage compared to their centralised peers, in terms of cash management and margins

Cash & Liquidity Management

CFOs encouraged but wary of Trump administration

by Kylene Casanova

The CFO Signals survey for North America captures how CFOs are expecting business to react and be affected by the Trump presidency

Cash & Liquidity Management

2016 Review - January

by Kylene Casanova

How to do cash flow forecasting right; How to piss off your suppliers; Top 10 payment trends for 2016; and Treasury objectives focused on cash and liquidity

Cash & Liquidity Management

Renminbi at a crossroads?

by Kylene Casanova

China's currency has lost almost 6 per cent of its value against the US dollar since the beginning of 2016, arousing fears of further depreciation.

Cash & Liquidity Management

3 ways the US must improve its AML/CFT framework

by Kylene Casanova

Lack of clear data on beneficial ownership is named as one of the “serious gaps” in the US anti-money laundering regime, according to FATF's first Mutual Evaluation report in 10 years.

Cash & Liquidity Management

Does technology actually help you to improve your Cash Management?

by Nicolas Christiaen , CEO & Founder, Cashforce

It is a question that many companies have been asking themselves for the past few years. Innovative, dedicated technologies may be very exciting, but the question remains: Are they worth the investment?

Cash & Liquidity Management

New FX tools for monitoring RMB risk

by Kylene Casanova

This Thomson Reuters report describes the development of the yuan into an international trade currency, underlining the need for a group of indices to monitor and hedge RMB movements.

Cash & Liquidity Management

Virtual Cash Management - the new future or the same old?

by Kylene Casanova

ING VCM solution improves cash visibility, access and reconciliation, whilst centralising multi-entity cash and transactions, and rationalising bank account structures

Cash & Liquidity Management

Payment traffic in West Africa up 15.8%

by Kylene Casanova

Growth in payment traffic in West Africa indicate long-term and sustainable economic growth across the region, says SWIFT.

Cash & Liquidity Management

Renminbi increasingly used for trade with China/HK

by Kylene Casanova

Seven countries began to use the renminbi for more than 10 per cent of their direct payments (by value) with China and Hong Kong in the two years from October 2014 to September 2016.

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Could virtual assistants change the way corporates bank?

by Kylene Casanova

A report shows what banking might look like in 2030: technology will enable a 'virtual assistant' to take care of all financial matters while managing our health and social lives at the same time.

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Lack of real-time data plagues cash managers

by Kylene Casanova

The biggest challenge for corporate treasurers is a lack of real-time data and reliance on manual processes, according to a survey of 200 global treasury professionals.

Cash & Liquidity Management

China to boost investor confidence with credit default swaps

by Kylene Casanova

China has taken another step towards opening a credit default swap (CDS) market, the Financial Times reports this morning. The hedging tools would protect investors in case of a credit default.

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Corporates to continue accumulating cash holdings

by Kylene Casanova

Financial professionals expect to continue accumulating cash holdings during the summer months, ahead of further anticipated uncertainty in global business markets, according to AFP research.