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Akita will work with Toshiyuki Okuyama and Masato Sato, two senior bankers, and a man named Hideki Hiramatsu, who will be in charge of treasury services. The unit will mostly be responsible for riskmanagement and global cash, along with providing advice and services on foreign credit, trade and treasury.
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Corporate treasurers gathered for the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) annual conference last week, and there, treasury professionals made clear where their priorities stand today. Ninety-one (91) percent of treasurers across the globe surveyed by ACT agreed that treasury has a strategic role in the enterprise today.
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If you can’t see it, you can’t manage it,” said Deloitte U.K. Global Treasury Advisory Services Practice Partner Karlien Porre in a statement. How can strategies be developed effectively if the exposure risk information is not being used to shape year-on-year performance as opposed to just the here and now?”
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