Managing FX risk is core strategic challenge for treasury
by Bija Knowles
Managing risk is the key mandate for most treasury departments and managing FX volatility is the main challenge, accord to Deloitte's Global Corporate Treasury Survey 2017
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.…
Read more65% drop in global capital flows part of new globalisation paradigm
by Bija Knowles
What are the factors shaping the new globalised financial landscape, from China's increasing connectedness to Eurozone banks retreating from cross-border capital lending?
Are digital currencies/cryptocurrencies really serious?
by Jack Large
Many important questions remain
Surviving and managing the new corporate banking
by Kylene Casanova
Can you cope with the ‘disruption to transformation’ trend that Celent predicts for corporate banking?
Cash holdings edge upwards as finance professionals stop chasing yield
by Kylene Casanova
US companies are increasingly holding on to their cash, as delayed corporate tax reform and geopolitical tensions dampen optimism in America's corporate sector
$1.5 trillion excess cash held offshore by US corporates
by Kylene Casanova
US corporates are holding huge amounts of cash offshore in non-US overseas subsidiaries, to avoid paying the 35 per cent US corporate tax rate. How can the Fed tempt companies to repatriate?
22 additional global banks join Nostro a/cs SWIFT gpi blockchain proof of concept
by Kylene Casanova
20 global transaction banks have begun actively using or implementing the SWIFT gpi service, with another 50 in the implementation pipeline
As Brexit looms: Would an e-account in Estonia help your expansion?
by Kylene Casanova
Estonia government announced their partnership with the Finnish fintech company Holvi to operate borderless digital banking for its borderless digital nation
The ‘virtual reality’ of treasury - Global Corporate Treasury Benchmarking Survey 2017
by Kylene Casanova
PwC finds that treasury should be seen very much as a process rather than a department and treasury professionals have to be jacks of all trades to succeed in today’s environment
Weaknesses in financial systems are holding emerging markets back
by Kylene Casanova
The lack of an efficient and resilient financial system is still holding back inclusive and sustainable growth in emerging markets, says a report by PwC
What’s the future of correspondent banking?
by Kylene Casanova
This article on gtnews.com really spells out the argument that the age of correspondent banking is coming to an end
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
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
Spotify’s Bergqvist on innovation and the problems banks need to solve
by Kylene Casanova
One of the most talked-about sessions at this year's EuroFinance in Vienna wasn't the discussion with Varoufakis, but a presentation given on day 1 by the group treasurer of Spotify.
385 Regulations - 500 pages - issued: end of the world as we know it? Not really
by Kylene Casanova
The regulations that distinguish between debt and equity are going to cause real grief in corporate treasury departments. Although not as bad as first thought and implementation pushed back to 1 Jan 2018
How to get the most out of a conference: go with questions and objectives
by Kylene Casanova
Effective corporate treasury departments understand the questions that drive their business
Need for better, integrated digital services is key gripe in corporate-bank relationships
by Kylene Casanova
Corporate satisfaction with their banking services is lower now than in 2013. One of the key priorities for companies is security as well as enhanced, integrated digital services.
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.
This could be the beginning of the end for FATCA?
by Kylene Casanova
Israeli High Court’s FATCA injunction could make other countries rethink America’s imperialistic law. Corporate treasurers need to campaign: to remove FATCA, and for BEPS consistency and the end to fiscal secrecy
Basel III: “some jurisdictions report challenges in meeting agreed deadlines”
by Kylene Casanova
BIS report to G20 Leaders on Basel III regulatory reforms shows general progress, but in next two years many will struggle to introduce vital domestic standards. Level playing field issues grow
Can you use bank services with FinTech solutions?
by Kylene Casanova
EuroFinance’s Treasury Lab in Vienna could show you how
Omichannel payments - will you need to accept Ant Alipay on- & off-line payments?
by Kylene Casanova
Ant Financial’s, the affiliate of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holdings, deal with Ingenico adds 90 countries. Gives their 450 millions customers global access. Another Chinese domestic payment system goes global
Deutsche Bank launches new liquidity management solution in South Korea
by Kylene Casanova
New FX cross-border cash sweeping service implemented through Bank of Korea’s Consolidated Management of Funds structure
Deutsche Bank Global Transaction Banking choose SWIFT Intraday Liquidity Reporting
by Kylene Casanova
Precise intra-day liquidity charging is coming as SWIFT Scope is chosen as the ILR solution for GTB at Deutsche Bank, a global service provider to other financial institutions