How to navigate the risks and seize the opportunities inherent in a merger, acquisition, divestment
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What to do once the deal is signed and prior to close
Operations
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…
Read moreDTCC partners with banks on global utility for client reference data
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Eventually will provide regulatory compliance data for Dodd-Frank, EMIR, etc.
Treasury outsourcing is growing world-wide
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FTI reports new customers as all types of outsourcing expand
Increasing competition and incentives for treasury centres in Asia-Pacific
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Christoph Kober reviews, in The Asset magazine, how "Several countries in Asia vie for corporates to consolidate cross-border treasury management in their respective jurisdiction - typically
The Treasury Outsourcing Company to use Salmon Software’s treasury platform for their new treasury o
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Treasury management software specialist Salmon Software has announced a partnership with the Treasury Outsourcing Company to support their comprehensive outsourcing solution for mid-cap
Solution to help insurance firms manage the impact of regulatory change and reduce compliance risk.
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Thomson Reuters have launched Accelus Compliance Manager for Insurance, a solution that enables U.S.-based insurance organizations to manage the impact of regulatory change on their business and mitigate the increas
Traiana launches trade reporting connection service with LEI functionality for Dodd-Frank and EMIR c
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Traiana, a post-trade services vendor, has launched a new service that offers a single point of connection for reporting foreign exchange, interest rate and credit default swap over-the-counter derivatives trades.
Shared Service Centres in Asia-Pacific are multiplying but there is growing dissatisfaction with SSC
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Citi is witnessing huge growth in the number of SSCs that they support...
ACL launches ACL™ Analytics 10 for data-driven Governance, Risk and Compliance Management programmes
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ACL has released™ Analytics version 10 (formerly known as ACL™ Desktop), a GRC solution that can analyse any data source. It allows a broad group of users, including risk, compliance, audit, IT
FATCA arrives in 2014 and will affect many MNCs that are not in the financial services industry
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Many multinational corporations (MNCs) whose primary business activities are outside of the traditional financial services industry mistakenly believe the USA's FATCA (Foreign Account Tax
Updated Framework for designing, implementing and conducting internal control and assessing their ef
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The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) – an organization providing thought leadership and guidance on internal control, enterprise risk management, and
Treasury benchmarking and self assessment is growing: Hackett Group dashboard pulls data from ERP sy
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There is no such thing as general Best Practice, only Good Practices that might be worth using as an indicator of possible practices in your department. Similarly, Benchmarks are not absolute truths.
ACT/Kyriba survey reveals core priorities of ACT Members for the next year: the bigger the company t
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During March and April 2013, Kyriba, in conjunction with the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) conducted an online survey of treasury and finance professionals, all members of the Association.
Thomson Reuters launches corporate responsibility indices: “an objective, rules-based benchmar
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Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, has launched a new family of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) indices.
China aims to attract more corporate treasury centres as it strives to be Asia’s shared services and
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Most corporate treasuries have set up their regional corporate treasury departments in Asia-Pacific in either Hong Kong or Singapore. China is now aiming to change this as it tries to upgrade its
Developing and retaining treasury talent
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Developing and retaining talent is a challenge for any treasury department. Even though the U.S. job market is still struggling, an individual with the right combination of education and experience can
Corporate treasury: what do you do? What is your mission?
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Results from Citi's Treasury Diagnostics™ Benchmarking Survey show the continuing evolution of the corporate treasury into an internal advisor to the business, contributing to corporate strategic planning.
To be the best corporate treasury department: monthly boot camp process reviews are essential
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Patricia Greenfield, Treasury Operations Manager, at AstraZeneca the global pharmaceutical company, is a lovely, kind lady, but she has zero tolerance for manual creep, use of spreadsheets, and
ERM: Building a Risk Culture in your organisation is now essential as unexpected events are happenin
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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.
Risk is hyperconnected. No risk exists in isolation. Enterprise risk management is now essential for
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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
Management philosophy and operating principles for the effective corporate treasury department
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In their presentation at Eurofinance's Monaco conference in September, entitled 'Changing the game in treasury management', Conor Leyden and John Voorhis from Omnicom Group, covered the basic approach needed to chan
Take care: ‘AFP Treasury Benchmarking Program - 2012 Survey’ results are out
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The AFP Treasury Benchmarking Programme - 2012 Survey sponsored by PNC, is a serious and useful survey that has been running since 2008. In the introduction to this year's report they claim: "Benchmarking the practi
VistaOne Solutions Releases Solvency II Compliance Software
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VistaOne Solutions, a global leader in providing financial data management, reporting and distribution services, today announced the release of vSolvencyIIä, providing end-to-end governance for Europe and UK insuran
Treat with care: the AFP ‘2011 Survey-Bank Relationship Management’ Benchmark Survey results
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The AFP Survey of Bank Relationship Management, sponsored by IBM and PNC, is a serious and useful survey that has been running for four years.