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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Adoption of digital technology in business processes has a penetration of less than 40 per cent, but how does digital investment impact revenue growth, EBIT growth and return on digital investment?
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A study conducted by the McKinsey Global Institute has gathered data showing that companies with a long-term strategy outperform their short-termist peers on several financial metrics
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Bloomberg called it “more pageantry than policy” when Donald Trump signed a directive on Friday to begin a review (and probable scaling back) of the Dodd-Frank Act
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Progress is gathering pace for the OECD's Base Erosion and Profit-shifting (BEPS) initiative. What are the latest developments and what will the role of corporate treasury be in planning for changes to tax strategy?
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Fifty-six per cent of global investors are planning to grow their presence in Europe in 2017, compared with just 36 per cent of investors in May 2016
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An indicator of business confidence suggests that business executives are increasingly confident of economic growth in the US during Q1
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At the beginning of last year Stroz Friedberg made several predictions for 2016, some of which came true. For the year ahead, the risk consultancy firm makes the following six predictions
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Digital technologies that could disrupt and revamp
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A pipe dream: corporate treasurers and CFOs prepared to pay more for their systems and services AND support? Something has got to give…..
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Chief financial officers at private equity firms are focusing on the priorities of automation, developing personnel and improving management reporting, according to an EY survey
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With headlines this week telling us 'Bitcoin is getting demolished', it's natural to continue giving the cryptocurrency a wide berth – but there are reasons to reconsider the advantages of Bitcoin
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As merger & acquisition (M&A) becomes a key growth strategy for corporates, a report from EY has identified five key trends expected to define the M&A transaction market globally in 2017
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Are corporates that manage to pay a low effective rate of tax taking greater risks? Some studies show this isn't the case – CFO Magazine discusses how company taxation might signal risk
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David Beatty, a senior advisor to McKinsey, asks: are hedge-fund activists a catalyst for beneficial changes in governance and strategy or short-term opportunists?
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Blockchain, essentially a giant network, which records ownership and value, is being hailed as the second coming of the internet. Raconteur break down its future in 8 charts
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MiFID II has been described as “one of the most ambitious and contentious reforms introduced by the EU in response to the 2008 financial crisis” - its implementation is now just a year away
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The Corporate Treasurer speaks to the chief executive of a Sri Lankan clothing company, which has set up a financial shared service centre to manage payments and invoicing for operations in 15 countries.
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The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) website has issued a reminder of some of the changes that companies need to look out for when IFRS 9 and IFRS 15 are brought in next year
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Shell’s centralisation journey; Block chain; OpenLink bringing commodity & treasury ERM solutions together; PSD2; and KYC were the most popular items in 2016
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Shell’s lessons from centralisation journey; EPC on potential of blockchain; OpenLink bringing commodity & treasury ERM solutions together; Transaction banking feels the strain
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Wise words from practical, sensible corporate treasurers
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What is IFRS taxonomy and how is it relevant? A webcast published by the International Accounting Standards Board provides some detail on the subject.
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World’s climate is in trouble: less than a quarter of companies disclose their environmental impact and only 13% have green or sustainable financing strategies in place
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The European Securities and Markets Authority has launched a public consultation on the extension of data available to the public in trade repositories as stipulated in EMIR.
