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Effective corporate treasury departments understand the questions that drive their business
Trapped cash is money that cannot be moved cross-border for a period due to regulatory, tax or business process constraints. These restrictions mainly apply in the emerging markets. The in-country…
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Effective corporate treasury departments understand the questions that drive their business
Safety is the most important objective of an organisation's cash investment policy and many companies are increasing their cash holdings, according to the 2016 AFP Liquidity Survey.
Maximise the release of trapped cash in countries world-wide
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How to achieve full visibility and understanding of your cash availability
The article by Gavin Hinks, in The Treasurer in September 2012, gives several important tips about how to free your cash:
HSBC China is the first foreign bank to obtain approval from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) to implement a foreign currency netting solution for the trade of goods in China; this has been obtain
There also a very clever 6th option, if you've got the companies to do it.
Standard Chartered Bank (China) Limited and Shell (China) Co. Ltd. today announced that they have been granted approval to set up a Foreign Currency Cross-border Sweeping structure. The structure, approved by the Ch
The recent deregulation by SAFE and PBOC allows MNC groups to establish " cross-border cash pooling " structure to link it's domestic cash pool with overseas cash pools.
At the recent Cash Management University in Paris, BNP Paribas explained how there are now five ways to release trapped cash in China:
In the long run, most trapped cash can be 'released', but there may be many months or years when it cannot. Obtaining any return on these funds can be difficult.
Julia Persson, from the corporate treasury department at A.P. Moller-Maersk, in her presentation at the Eurofinance Conference in Rome in October 2011 described how they extract