The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 30, 2024

They offer a complete suite of features that help businesses forecast cash flows, handle short-term investments, and improve liquidity. Cash Flow Forecasting - These tools can analyze historical data and current transactions to help businesses predict future cash flow needs, ensuring liquidity and avoiding financial bottlenecks.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Long-term guaranteed fixed rates allow corporate treasuries to enhance financial stability, optimize liquidity, and align cash management practices with overall corporate strategy. BofA launched Guaranteed FX Rates beyond a 24-hour period eight years ago, supporting over 200 currency pairs.

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Simply Treasury

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

When we address the issue of the appropriate level of the USD/EUR currency pairs, it is difficult to assess the right level it should reach. The Dollar's weakness against the EUR, and against other currencies, divides analysts on the Dollar's future role in trade. François Masquelier – Simply TREASURY I guess not….

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 12, 2024

So when I see a chart like this two things come to mind the first is that looking at crisis peaks — GFC and Covid-19 — is inherently problematic; you are taking outliers that come along once every 15-20 years as opposed to the ordinary treasury issuances. Do we simply ignore the growth in the size of the economy and the U.S.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Corporate treasury professionals are reassessing investment strategies to stay agile and conserve cash amid interest rate shifts and geopolitical uncertainty. A sense of nervousness amid ongoing global disruption pervades strategic thinking across global treasury functions.

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Finvisage

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Why the role of treasury is so unique for a pure-play trading firm Normal corporation : Let us take the case of a manufacturing firm. They know their forecasted costs required to service that order book. The role of treasury is to monitor the certainty of these inflows and outflows and manage the ensuing mismatch risks.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 9, 2023

There is a market-based estimate of inflation that comes from the US treasury market, where a comparison of yields on a treasury bond with that on a inflation-protected treasury bond of equivalent maturity provides a measure of expected inflation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

JPMorgan ’s Head of Global Liquidity Product Solutions Specialists, Lori Schwartz , told PYMNTS in a recent Masterclass that the very nature of liquidity management is changing — and leading treasury management professionals to pivot to digitization and move from physical to virtual accounts. You’ve got to adhere to currency cut-off times.

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Global Finance

JULY 26, 2024

A fragmented regulatory environment, uneven access to financial services, a shallow pool of readily available funds, and currency controls and limitations in some African markets can lead to trapped cash. A specialist banking partner will help provide and support an effective treasury model to help make the most of the opportunities.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

In business financing decisions , the cost of capital becomes an optimizing tool , where businesses look for a mix of debt and equity that reduces the cost of capital , and where matching up the debt (in terms of currency and maturity) to the assets r educes default risk and the cost of capital.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

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. Yet, it's when these two techniques are combined that a treasurer can truly optimize liquidity management across borders and currencies.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

The digital transformation of corporate treasury is not a destination; it’s a journey. It stands to reason that firms that have been around for decades, with far-flung operations and payments done across multiple currencies, have a range of legacy systems in place with less-than-efficient processes entrenched in back-office functions.

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The Finance Weekly

APRIL 25, 2022

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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CFO News Room

JANUARY 14, 2023

There are three possible explanations for the divergence: Short term versus Long term : The consumer survey extracts an expectation of inflation in the near term, whereas the treasury markets are providing a longer term perspective, since I am using ten-year rates to derive the market-implied inflation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In its “ The road to real-time treasury ,” Deutsche Bank urges treasurers to get ready for a world of real-time transacting. Deutsche Bank noted that this can have multiple positive impacts on corporate treasury, including faster cross-currency payments, faster FX exposure management, and faster actions taken to address FX volatility.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Treasury yield, which helps set borrowing costs on everything from mortgages to corporate loans, settled at 1.930%, its highest close since December 2019. That was well above forecasts from economists who had expected a larger drag from the latest wave of Covid-19 cases. The benchmark 10-year U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

In a recent announcement within the treasury management space, EDI Gateway, a service provider specializing in SMBs and focused on enterprise resource planning and B2B applications, linked up with AZUR , a cloud-based treasury management firm, to offer the latter’s eFinancialSuite to vendors.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

A new report from Deutsche Bank said this industry path is guiding banks and corporates to a new destination: real-time treasury. ” Banks and corporates will be challenged to accurately forecast their liquidity management needs as real-time transacting spreads. .

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

There is a market-based estimate of inflation that comes from the US treasury market, where a comparison of yields on a treasury bond with that on a inflation-protected treasury bond of equivalent maturity provides a measure of expected inflation.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Services include cash management and cross-border payment and currency conversion across APIs. The latter offering includes multi-currency processing. The BNP move follows one where Kantox last year had struck a collaboration with treasury management firm Bellin.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

MicroStrategy was reportedly the first public firm to invest most of its treasury in the cryptocurrency in the summer, according to Bloomberg. The executive forecasts that asset inflation will jump to in excess of 20 percent annually, which would drastically decline purchasing power.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

BNP Paribas’ partnership with Kantox will offer corporate treasurers in EMEA the opportunity to access a fully automate hedging solution and ultimately improve their treasury processes.”. The FX company spoke with PYMNTS last month about the role that automation plays in enabling corporates around the world to manage and mitigate FX risk.

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Musings on Markets

MAY 6, 2022

There are three possible explanations for the divergence: Short term versus Long term : The consumer survey extracts an expectation of inflation in the near term, whereas the treasury markets are providing a longer term perspective, since I am using ten-year rates to derive the market-implied inflation.

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CS Lucas

JANUARY 6, 2021

Digital landscapes make dealing with payments, across multiple currencies and banking relationships easier to visualize and quicker to execute. A treasury management system that is built with automation and cash visibility in mind, creates a comfortable and fast-paced environment for executing treasury transactions.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 11, 2024

trillion in extended credit and new capital for its consumer and institutional clients while moving $10 trillion in over 120 currencies daily. Some may lack the appropriate treasury management solutions or may not know how to maximize liquidity process efficiency.” Throughout 2023, JPMorgan Chase raised $2.3

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CFO Leadership

MARCH 31, 2022

Global operations make it more challenging for small treasury teams in mid-market companies to handle day-to-day operations efficiently and securely. New currencies, global banking structures, regional regulations, disparate processes, and disconnected systems all add complexities to the treasury operations.

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Strategic Treasurer

JANUARY 14, 2022

Description : Treasury is responsible for several crucial areas of finance including liquidity management. Managing liquidity requires clear visibility to all cash regardless of its location or currency (bank, country, currency, entity). Participants who attend this live session and respond to 3 polling questions will earn 1.0

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Strategic Treasurer

AUGUST 15, 2022

During uncertain times, treasury teams must be on the frontlines to plan for business continuity by monitoring external factors such as seasonality, currency fluctuations, and broad economic indicators. Forecasting cash flow and strategic planning have never been more important. CPE credits.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 24, 2024

As we start 2024, the interest rate prognosticators who misread the bond markets so badly in 2023 are back to making their 2024 forecasts, and they show no evidence of having learned any lessons from the last year. The Fed Effect: Where's the beef? The Fed Effect: Where's the beef? 4.50%, by the end of the year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2019

moneycorp, has acquired an Australian independent treasury advisory company called the Rochford Group for an undisclosed sum, according to reports. Providing customers with mobile, telephone and online payment capabilities on a multi-currency platform, moneycorp also enables them to exchange money through 120 currencies.

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Treasury Talent

JULY 26, 2021

Today’s episode is a monthly economic forecast for Treasurers from our regular guest, Michael Braude. Updates on the currency markets. . The post Michael Braude – Economic Update Monthly #23 | Episode 192 appeared first on Treasury Talent. In this episode we discuss: . Current movements in the bond markets. .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2017

In their Strategic Role of Treasury Survey , the AFP and Marsh & McLennan identified the forces pressing companies to shift the treasury department into a more strategic position. Most professionals said geopolitical risk has led to concerns over a loss of revenue or customers, while 49 percent cited the concern over currency risk.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2016

Global Treasury Advisory Services Practice Partner Karlien Porre in a statement. Without accurate measurement, value erosion from negative currency rate movements can’t be anticipated or prevented.”. “If you can’t see it, you can’t manage it,” said Deloitte U.K.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2016

But not every firm is prioritizing the use of technology that can provide more sophisticated financial forecasting. Treasury management technology firm Reval says Brexit makes it painfully clear that, for those businesses not conducting contingency and scenario planning, their financial situations are far less stable.

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PWC UK

JANUARY 26, 2021

by Christopher Raftopoulos Director, Treasury Advisory and Assurance. LIBOR transition has been a hot topic for the corporate treasury community for at least the past year. by Christopher Raftopoulos Director, Treasury Advisory and Assurance. Email +44 (0)7753 928134. More articles by Christopher. Email +44 (0)7753 928134.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2016

More than half of treasury departments surveyed by the firm, however, say that a lack of visibility into their corporations’ exposure to this risk, as well as unreliable FX forecasts, are their top challenges. At the tip of everyone’s tongue in the treasury department these days is the rising value of the U.S.

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