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US Treasury Tells Banks To Treat Hemp Businesses Like Any Other

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Treasury Department’s financial crime division, the agency said the new guidance is in response to questions related to Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering regulatory requirements for hemp-related business customers. Hemp, a strain of cannabis with lower concentrations of THC, the substance that makes users high, was legalized in 2018.

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The Treasury Function Gets Strategic

Global Finance

Today, the corporate treasury team plays a critical role helping companies navigate a business environment rife with economic uncertainty, geopolitical risks, regulatory change, trade tensions and supply chain disruptions. Not anymore. You have the ongoing wars, conflict with China, high inflation, and [high] interest rates.”

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J.P. Morgan: Tech Uncovers New Liquidity Management Opportunities

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While the corporate treasurer's fundamental role has remained steady, the treasury function has seen dramatic impacts from a changing market that is increasingly moving toward real time. Some key tools that emerged as most beneficial to treasurers included physical cash concentration, notional pooling and virtual account solutions.

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Ramifications of the Ukraine Crisis for the Finance Function & How to Deal with It

The Finance Weekly

Any company with a global supply chain is inherently vulnerable to the fluctuations in currency and input prices that this crisis is intensifying. That puts the onus on the CFO to manage treasury risks and closely monitor the company’s international contracts. Treasury sanctions across the globe.

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Market Resilience or Investors In Denial? A Mid-year Assessment for 2023!

Musings on Markets

In my third post at the start of 2023, I looked at US treasuries, the long-touted haven of safety for investors. In 2022, they were in the eye on the storm, with the ten-year US treasury bond depreciating in price by more than 19% during the year, the worst year for US treasury returns in a century.

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Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!

CFO News Room

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent. In fact, since trading has been suspended on both indices, the extent of the damage is probably understated.

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World’s Best Banks 2024: Global Winners

Global Finance

trillion in extended credit and new capital for its consumer and institutional clients while moving $10 trillion in over 120 currencies daily. The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s quick response to the banks’ failures stemmed additional contagion and has left businesses with an object lesson in concentration risk.

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