The changing corporate liquidity management ecosystem
by Jack Large
EBA Liquidity Management Working Group paper reveals still unclear when notional pooling can be used
Global Cash & Liquidity Management
Background
Comprehensive, coherent strategies to optimise global cash and liquidity management are relatively easy to develop, the difficult part is the implementation and ensuring that they are cost-effective.…
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