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.
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New Legislation Would Turn Back the Clock on MMF Regulation
A host of political and procedural hurdles may have slowed the momentum for across-the-board rollbacks in Obama-era nancial regulations that were promised early in the Trump administration. Nonetheless, some money-market-fund industry observers hope the momentum will be regained at least enough to help push through bipartisan legislation introduced recently both in the U.S. Senate and
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Optimize Your Forecasting: Improving the Crystal Ball
The U.S. economy has just emerged from a long zero-rate era, and is now in what will undoubtedly be several years of gradual rate increases. This intensifies the importance of a good cash position forecast.
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The Impact of New Money Market Fund Regulations on Investment Policies
In July 2014, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued new regulations for U.S.-domiciled money market funds (MMFs).
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Six Tips for Managing Brexit’s Unknowns
The British vote for “Brexit,” or to leave the European Union (EU), has ended. But it’s only the end of the beginning.