Simply Treasury

MARCH 25, 2020

Treasury, a major discipline in finance. Who could argue that treasury is not one of the major disciplines of finance? When business is more strained, working capital requirements and needs higher, treasury is the necessary lifeline. This health crisis will have serious economic consequences. The companies more exposed, such as air transport, travel, hotels and restaurants, bars, entertainment, cinemas, theatres, trade fairs, etc. will face "cash flow" and treasury problems soon.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

We have known for a few years the famous black swans that Nassim Nicholas Taleb developed. Swan lakes. black swans, a sign of an exceptional and unpredictable catastrophe. We had also talked more recently, and I am one of them, about “grey swans”, a kind of intermediary between the norm and the exceptional. But now we're talking about " green swans ," a kind of "climate black swan.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Persistent negative interest rates (in EUR) force asset managers to reinvent their business model to focus on a "more dynamic" cash management model to avoid value destruction that a (too) prudent short-term placement would imply. Taking an assured dry loss or preferring an investment with relative positive returns and limited volatility is a real strategic choice to consider.

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Simply Treasury

MARCH 25, 2020

Treasury, a major discipline in finance. Who could argue that treasury is not one of the major disciplines of finance? When business is more strained, working capital requirements and needs higher, treasury is the necessary lifeline. This health crisis will have serious economic consequences. The companies more exposed, such as air transport, travel, hotels and restaurants, bars, entertainment, cinemas, theatres, trade fairs, etc. will face "cash flow" and treasury problems soon.

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MARCH 25, 2020

A live exercise is always better than any test. Are we not experiencing a “live” stress test, never imagined or conceived by a human brain, of a major crisis? At inception, it was certainly a health or biological crisis, which also quickly generated financial consequences. Will it pass this full-scale test? That is the question. I think it can be presupposed.

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APRIL 8, 2020

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Simply Treasury

JUNE 15, 2020

Back to the office. And now what am I going to change? It is quite legitimate to ask the question: "After such a huge financial crisis, what will become my treasury department?" In all magazines or newspapers, journalists get us drunk with this post-containment story. The next world would not be the same. That would be the end of the world as we knew it.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

“If you have to forecast, forecast often” (Edgar R. Fieldler). Need for reliable forecasts. Nobody could deny the importance of having accurate and reliable Cash-Flow Forecasts (CFF). Often, we heard “ cash is king”. However, knowing if you will get cash and how much is even more important. Treasury management is “anticipation”. Managing cash is easier than forecasting cash.

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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. However, at the moment, for COVID crisis reasons, we believe, USD is weaker. Does it help the European economies also facing tough times? I guess not…. A weak(er) Dollar strengthens abnormally a EUR that intrinsically seems weak as well.

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Simply Treasury

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

TMS’s have evolved over time and especially the last couple of years with a huge jump in technologies. Treasurers are wondering how TMS can help further modernizing the finance function in the coming years. How to best choose your IT treasury solution in a complex and competitive environment? What are the general trends we saw in the industry? These are the questions the article will try to answer to.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

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JANUARY 26, 2021

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JANUARY 26, 2021

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JANUARY 26, 2021

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JANUARY 26, 2021

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JUNE 3, 2021

Every year, EACT launches a treasury survey to identify top priorities for Corporates. It also aims at identifying challenges corporate treasurers of MNC’s are facing and technological innovations they intend to implement. As this survey is the first one post-COVID, it was interesting to see whether those priorities have changed and if they did why.

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JUNE 3, 2021

Delay in FX hedging, accounting treatment. The accounting treatment of currency hedging (timing) mismatches remains a major problem that has become more acute in the wake of the health crisis. Many companies have suffered from the effects of the crisis and the drop in their sales, or sometimes they have simply experienced delays in delivery from their suppliers or payment from their customers.

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JUNE 3, 2021

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JULY 12, 2021

Although the large IT vendors are necessary to properly serve large MNCs, we must accept that they cannot solve every single problem and that fintech’s may be solutions to problems often faced. There is a bias consisting of over-sizing solutions, perceived as sort of kitchen robots by treasurers and CFOs. The solution can be often found in emerging fintechs, for those who take time to contemplate existing and performing solutions to complete and fulfil their IT panoply of tools.

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JULY 16, 2021

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AUGUST 26, 2021

The treasurer is one of the people in finance who is sitting on the largest amount of data, and this is not likely to stop, as his role is growing. How do you make good use of this data and what are the pitfalls you have to face? Like salmons in rivers, we need to swim upstream to find the best way to optimize this incredible but too often untapped asset.

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