The last big post-Lehman regulatory change is reverberating across the financial system, potentially squeezing short-term lending for businesses and local governments.
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All stocked up and nowhere to invest
Consider what a great time it is to be a corporate treasurer on this side of the Atlantic.
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Multinationals Scramble To Contain Risks Linked to Brexit
Multinationals are moving to protect against foreign exchange risk and other repercussions of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, said Anthony Carfang, managing director of consulting firm Novantas Inc.’s Treasury Strategies Inc. division. Specifically, finance chiefs and treasurers are increasing their currency hedges, raising cash holdings and more closely scrutinizing the credit quality of
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Novantas Acquires Treasury Strategies
Exciting news! Today, Treasury Strategies is merging with Novantas, Inc. to create a 200-person consulting powerhouse to support senior executives in financial services and corporate financial management. Novantas is the leading bank analytics solutions and advisory company, serving 75% of the largest banks around the world. As we’ve said many times, CFOs need increasingly sophisticated
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5 Things to Know About Negative Rates
The Fed isn’t likely to push U.S. rates below zero, but treasurers of multinationals still have to cope with negative rates overseas. While treasurers have been dealing with low interest rates for years, they’re now facing negative rates on bank deposits in some parts of the world. The prospect of paying a bank to hold
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Transactis is Keeping Banks in the Center of Payments
After years of watching non-bank vendors encroach upon the banking industry’s prized payments space, more top financial institutions have contracted with Transactis to provide them and their corporate clients with the industry’s leading electronic billing and payment solutions (EBPP). According to the U.S. Postal Service, only 24% of the 26 billion bills in America are
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Any takers for Treasury-as-a-Service (TaaS)?
“The modern treasury group is strategic, collaborates with the businesses it serves, and is using automation, offshoring, and treasury centers of excellence to consolidate and standardise tactical areas,” reported Deloitte’s 2015 Global Corporate Treasury Survey. “Treasurers clearly have strong mandates from their chief financial officers CFOs to be strategic” According to the 2015 Treasury Strategies
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Foreign Banks Pay Up for U.S. Deposits
Foreign banks are paying up for U.S. deposits that many domestic lenders are taking pains to avoid. Mizuho Bank Ltd., Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, BNP Paribas SA and Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA are among European and Japanese banks outbidding their U.S. peers for large corporate deposits across the country, said treasurers and chief financial
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Treasury-Only MMFs Equivalent To T-Bills, Says Report
Treasury-only money-market funds are the “functional equivalent” of Treasury bills and should be treated as such for purposes of collateral management. That is what is recommended in a recently-published paper, “Collateral Scarcity: An Approach to Preventing Market Stress from Becoming Contagion.” Written by corporate treasury consulting firm Treasury Strategies, the paper makes its case by
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A Clear View of Cash
Treasury departments never stop focusing on cash forecasting, but sometimes it ranks higher on their list of priorities. This is one of those times, as factors ranging from volatility in the foreign exchange market and the prospect of higher interest rates to the effects of Basel III regulations renew companies’ interest in having an accurate