How supporting women in treasury benefits everyone
by Ben Poole
Diversity in treasury is slowly improving, to the benefit of women in the workplace and proactive organisations.
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Background
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…
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