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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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
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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.
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Citi is witnessing huge growth in the number of SSCs that they support...
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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The focus of the corporate treasury department is changing. This was summed up by Philips' Gary Throup excellent presentation
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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
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The problem with repetitive tasks, particularly with complicated transactions, is that you forget how to do them after a holiday or if you only carry them out occasionally.
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Ernie Caballero's - Vice President Eurasia Treasury and M&A at UPS - standout presentation at BNP Paribas's 4th Cash Management University contained one slide
