Central counterparty equivalence for five more countries
by Kylene Casanova
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.
Operational Risk Management
Background
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…
Read moreFive years on: is Dodd-Frank a failure for corporate treasury?
by Kylene Casanova
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?
Supplier risk management is now a vital skill in corporate treasury
by Kylene Casanova
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
Swift opens KYC Registry to fund distributors and custodians
by Kylene Casanova
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.
Really effective treasurers are business people first and then treasury technicians?
by Kylene Casanova
Creating synergy between company’s business model and treasury objectives and operations is vital
Alliance Lite 2 provides Gilead Science Inc with service bureau agnostic and bank agnostic connectiv
by Kylene Casanova
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
Possible Euro break-up: plans on hold while contingency procedures and systems are being kept in pla
by Kylene Casanova
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.
ERM: Building a Risk Culture in your organisation is now essential as unexpected events are happenin
by Kylene Casanova
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.
Risk is hyperconnected. No risk exists in isolation. Enterprise risk management is now essential for
by Kylene Casanova
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
SWIFT introduce Alliance Lite2 with cloud-based connectivity and more resilience
by Kylene Casanova
SWIFT launched Alliance Lite in 2008 as a cheap option for customers with low volume traffic requirements.
Take care with SaaS Deals, it’s not necessarily all goods news. They need policing and a plan if pro
by Kylene Casanova
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