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Effective corporate treasury departments understand the questions that drive their business
Releasing Trapped Cash
Background
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…
Read moreSafety and liquidity are priorities as corporates build cash holdings
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.
On the ninth day of Christmas my cash management expert gave me tips on how to:
Maximise the release of trapped cash in countries world-wide
Inter-company netting - undervalued and underused
Andrew Goldie, Coprocess MD, explains how netting market is developing, the new functionality available and the future for netting systems and services
2015 outlook is ‘not bad’, but corporate treasury needs to be prepared for next crash
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Revealed the secret path for moving Chinese money overseas
Bloomberg reports on the government-sanctioned trial program which helps explain huge Chinese investments in foreign real estate in the recent past
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Achieving Full Global Visibility & Understanding of Your Cash
by Lisa Rossi, Deutsche Bank & CTMfile,
How to achieve full visibility and understanding of your cash availability
The real truths about releasing trapped cash
The article by Gavin Hinks, in The Treasurer in September 2012, gives several important tips about how to free your cash:
HSBC first foreign bank to pilot foreign currency cross-border netting solution in China
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
A 6th option for releasing trapped cash in China: reader suggestion
There also a very clever 6th option, if you've got the companies to do it.
More cross-border sweeping from China: approval for Standard Chartered and Shell
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 development of cross-border sweeping from China continues
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.
Five ways for releasing trapped cash in China
At the recent Cash Management University in Paris, BNP Paribas explained how there are now five ways to release trapped cash in China:
When the funds are really trapped, use a local currency money market fund
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.
Extracting as much trapped as possible - the Maersk way
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