The basic purpose of the corporate treasury department is to ensure that there is sufficient cash available for the company to operate, and that interest rate and foreign exchange risks are…
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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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Overall, CFOs are more bullish about their own companies' prospects in the coming year but there is a huge amount of caution regarding Europe and China, as well as US equity markets.
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The importance of operational resilience in the financial industry has never been greater, according to a white paper, published by Finextra in association with IBM.
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In order to comply with new EU data protection rules – regardless of Brexit
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Sam Cooke understood future of corporate treasury: “You’ve got to accentuate the positive” (simplifying, focus on new ways of doing business), “eliminate the negative” (unnecessary complexity, things with no value)
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A new report shows a dramatic increase in the total number of enforcement actions initiated by the SEC against public company defendants and related subsidiary defendants.
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Uncertain EU and global economic outlooks keep liquidity risk at high levels, according to a Q1 report by the European Securities and Markets Authority.
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A report from McKinsey shows that trust, communication and focusing on businesses models are linchpins of successful joint venture negotiations. Treasury has a role to play in these key areas.
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The Financial Accounting Standard Board has issued a new standard to simplify accounting for share-based payments, and also voted to let companies choose how they implement hedge accounting changes.
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Most countries are moving cautiously in their response to the G20/OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (Beps) project, although Europe is setting the precedent for tax reform.
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has responded to a letter it received last week from the European Commission on certain aspects of ESMA's draft MiFID II rules.
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Are companies being let down by poor coverage of cyber risks in conventional insurance classes? A new report says insurers are not offering adequate cover for the risks of cyber crime.
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The EC has announced that the central counterparty regulatory regimes for Canada, Switzerland, South Africa, Mexico and Korea are now “equivalent” to regulation of EU CCPs.
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The US's most sweeping reform of financial markets regulation in recent times comes in for criticism on its fifth birthday. How has it affected corporate treasury?
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WARNING - no relationship is forever: your suppliers will increasingly change their strategies and focus. and then they MAY drop you…… you are not that special. Suppliers are loyal as long it suits their strategy
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Swift's KYC Registry has been made available to fund distributors and custodians as part of a move to extend compliance services to the securities community.
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Creating synergy between company’s business model and treasury objectives and operations is vital
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Brad Vollmer, Treasurer, at Gilead Sciences, Inc. (GSI) - a leading research-based biopharmaceutical company, with $9.7 bn annual revenues in 2012, started his treasury automation project in
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In September 2012 Citi's chief economist put the likelihood of Greece leaving the euro within 18 months at 90%. These concerns on Greece and the Euro zone have lessened, but they have not gone away.
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Events like superstorm Sandy are natural triggers for companies' reexamination of their risk preparedness and business resilience planning, but they should also start an internal dialogue about risk culture.
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The recent World Economic Forum Global Risks 2013 report, which is developed from an annual survey of more than 1,000 experts from industry, government, academia and civil society that were
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SWIFT launched Alliance Lite in 2008 as a cheap option for customers with low volume traffic requirements.
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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) can seem attractive - low upfront costs, ease of implementation, transfer of application-support work and costs from customer to provider, and
