Virtual accounts: technology to help banks exceed customer expectations
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Tieto’s white paper explores the opportunities
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…
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Centralisation isn't ideal for all companies and yet, decentralised companies can be at a disadvantage compared to their centralised peers, in terms of cash management and margins
Virtual Cash Management - the new future or the same old?
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ING VCM solution improves cash visibility, access and reconciliation, whilst centralising multi-entity cash and transactions, and rationalising bank account structures
How to get the most out of a conference: go with questions and objectives
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Effective corporate treasury departments understand the questions that drive their business
Safety and liquidity are priorities as corporates build cash holdings
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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:
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Maximise the release of trapped cash in countries world-wide
Inter-company netting - undervalued and underused
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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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“Another crash is coming. We all know it…..” The world economy could return to crisis survival mode: here are the essentials for surviving global developments in 2015 (Updated with BofA quote)
Revealed the secret path for moving Chinese money overseas
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Bloomberg reports on the government-sanctioned trial program which helps explain huge Chinese investments in foreign real estate in the recent past
Creating and Issuing Effective Requests for Proposal
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Checklist to save yourself and your bidders time and money
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
by CTMfile
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
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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
by CTMfile
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
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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
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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
by CTMfile
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
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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
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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