New dimensions from real-time corporate treasury
by Jack Large
Deutsche Bank’s vision of “The road to real-time treasury” reveals benefits and issues for the corporate treasury department
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The large majority of the work in a corporate treasury department is administration, transaction processing and non-discretionary decision making. This absorbs most of the time and resources in the department as the chart below shows. Balance of Time and Resources Employed in the Corporate Treasury Department… Read more about Operations
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