Industry Insights
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Navigating Rate Cuts in the New Norm
The corporate treasury industry has undergone significant shifts in recent years, driven primarily by sustained high interest rates and concerns over bank stability. These factors have forced companies to reevaluate their cash management strategies and prioritize fundamental practices, such as cash forecasting, optimizing deposit allocation, and mitigating rising bank fees.
State of the Treasury
Take the 16th Annual State of the Treasury Profession Survey
Each year, we ask corporate treasuries to tell us what’s on their minds as part of our annual State of Treasury Practice survey. We know there’s a lot on your plate at the moment and would like to hear what are your biggest priorities and your concerns for 2022?
State of the Treasury
15th Annual State of the Treasury Profession Results
This report includes results from the survey conducted earlier this year and insights from more than 30 in-depth interviews with corporate treasurers.
State of the Treasury
State of Treasury Survey
Each year, we ask corporate treasuries to tell us what’s on their minds as part of our annual State of Treasury Practice survey. We know there’s a lot on your plate at the moment and would like to hear what are your biggest priorities and your concerns for 2021?
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COVID-19 Brings Cash Forecasting Into Spotlight
Treasurers have long expressed a desire for enhanced cash-forecasting capabilities, but that often-talked-about priority has now become a critical need.
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Using Benchmarks for Your Bank Fee Analysis
In Treasury Strategies’ recent corporate bank fee management survey, 70% of corporate treasurers said they review their bank service fees on a monthly basis. Yet only 21% use service price benchmarks in their bank fee management program. That’s a huge disconnect.
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Making the Most of Your Bank Deposit Balances
When interest rates were zero, the opportunity cost to a corporate treasurer of idle cash balances sitting in a bank was zero. With recent Federal Reserve rate hikes, that has all changed. Indeed, a cash manager not carefully managing daily cash positions today is incurring a real cost.
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Understanding Your Bank Account Analyses
They arrive each month – those balance and service fee statements that itemize everything you’re being charged for in painful detail. The question is, how can you easily make sense of them? Here are some pointers for a good monthly bank fee analysis process.
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Getting Maximum Value From Your Bank Transaction Services Spend
Companies spend $20 billion per year on bank treasury management services in the U.S. and $200 billion worldwide. Corporate treasurers who optimize their use of these services enjoy accelerated cash flow, improved risk management, higher investment income and quality information, all at a reasonable cost.
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Earnings Credit Rates Rise at Uneven Pace
Treasury Strategies, a division of Novantas, Inc. released its 3rd quarter ECR benchmarks to NDepth Bank Fee Analysis clients recently. The surprising results showed some unusual patterns overall as well as striking differences between U.S. money center and regional banks.