PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

“Our Payment Optimization Framework provides a data-driven approach to continuously monitoring, benchmarking and optimizing payment acceptance,” Smith said. . He added that the company's clients also have the ability to combine payment data with treasury tools for improved “cash flow reporting, forecasting and utilization.”.

Forecasting

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Facebook owner Meta Platforms lost a record $232 billion in market value Thursday after releasing a disappointing financial forecast, while shares of other companies including. In bond markets, the yield on the benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury note ticked up to 1.847% from 1.825% Thursday. The Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 3.7%

Benchmarking

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The benchmark 10-year U.S. 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. on Friday.

Benchmarking

PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

The digital transformation of corporate treasury is not a destination; it’s a journey. However, those data attributes are critical when it comes to automatically reconciling incoming and outgoing payments, and for supporting cash flow forecasting. One example is the JPMorgan Treasury Ignition product that plugs into NetSuite.

Cash Flow Forecasting

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It’s the latest in a series of recent fiscal and monetary benchmarks received with increasing blitheness. That matters, because rising rates will increase the debt service (interest payments the US government must pay on the outstanding Treasury securities). I counted only a handful of headlines reporting on it.

Economics

Global Finance

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Global economic growth will continue expanding this year and hold steady next year, with some weakness in the United States and China and some rebounding in the euro area, according to global forecasts. Moody’s forecasts global growth slowing to 2.7% in 2024 and 2.5% in 2025, from 3% in 2023. in 2024 and 1.6% in 2025, from 1.8%

Economics

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Economists had forecasted that the CPI would move up by 0.1 Treasuries prices were mixed. The Fed’s benchmark overnight interest rate increased for the first time in nearly a decade at the end of 2015, but it has not changed this year due to persistently low inflation. percent in July. The core CPI increased 2.3

Benchmarking

PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

New research from Asset Benchmark Research suggests ties with regulators and even reputation are not the number one priority for corporate treasurers looking for a cash management provider. Treasury leaders should not assume that others are connecting the dots and reading between the lines.”.

Banking

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

During 2022, the US treasury did not default, but an investor in a 10-year US treasury bond would have earned a return of -18% on his or her investment, as bond prices dropped. and how much to hold in investments with guaranteed returns over their time horizon (cash, treasury bill and treasury bonds).

Investments

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.

Treasury

PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2020

The Federal Reserve, said Tuesday that it cut its federal funds rate — which typically is used as a “benchmark” rate by lenders, who take that rate and layer on a premium — by 50 basis points. On one hand, it’s fair to ask just how much lower mortgage rates can go.

Treasury

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

APRIL 16, 2025

Support the Sales and Cash Forecast Help in the management of cash performance by coordinating with Accounts Payable to bring collections inflows and accounts payable outflows in line with cash targets. Focus on Process Improvement Identify root cause issues driving errors in invoicing, shipments, and cash application.

Accounts Payable

Future CFO

MAY 26, 2020

Asked what the priorities of the financial planning and analysis teams were in 2018, three-quarters of CFOs surveyed by FutureCFO between March and April 2020 picked planning, budgeting and forecasting as a key function of the department.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

Once you know the internal baselines, the next thing to do is benchmark against a leader to determine where you rank in the marketplace,” he said. Processing times go down, payments become more predictable, organizations can optimize around discounting opportunities and procurement costs can be better forecast.

Accounts Payable

Planful

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

We provide career development resources and unbiased content and established and administer the Certified Treasury Professional and Certified Corporate FP&A Professional credentials, which set standards of excellence in finance. Our AFP Annual Conference is the largest networking event for corporate finance professionals in the world.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Global Finance

JULY 24, 2024

In addition to custody, CIBC Mellon’s investment-servicing solutions also provide clients with multicurrency accounting, fund administration, recordkeeping, pension services, securities-lending services, foreign exchange settlement, and treasury services.

Banking

Global Finance

JULY 24, 2024

In addition to custody, CIBC Mellon’s investment-servicing solutions also provide clients with multicurrency accounting, fund administration, recordkeeping, pension services, securities-lending services, foreign exchange settlement, and treasury services.

Banking

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And those were Treasuries. RITHOLTZ: And last question about the various teams, does everybody have a different benchmark? Well, I’m not forecasting another 20% down, but I do think we could go down 5% or 10%. RITHOLTZ: Like, very different universe, right? TROPIN: Right. We’re not talking junk bonds here.

Profit and Loss

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

They create the benchmark. So when there’s a major turnover like that that happens, you always have the option, “Hey, can you do it exactly on the time that it enters the benchmark? And 87% of our active fixed income funds have outperformed their benchmarks on a three year basis against their benchmarks.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

So whether you’re trying to get managed futures from an active manager or, you know, two months Treasuries, T bills, like the whole spectrum is now available in lose to 3,000 ETFs we are trading here in the U.S. NADIG: Well, I mean, there’s like TLT, with the big Treasury funds, LQD and HYG. RITHOLTZ: Beat the 10-year.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And because remember, Lehman had the Lehman Agg and that was the benchmark. There is above benchmark returns to be generated by active selection of credit quality duration and specific bonds. RIEDER: Why do you need the price of the Treasury market to the two-year forward or the three-year forward? There is alpha. RIEDER: Yeah.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

So, for example, the treasury was thinking about moving to direct deposit, but they wanted to know how much it was gonna cost them because direct deposit, they, they, they, they, the money clears, you know, sorry, almost instantly, right? So they wanna know how many days does it take a, a treasury check to get back to us.

Treasury

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

So, so here’s, here’s the why I, I’m looking at it near term, not, not making any sort of forecast or anything like that, but last year where we stood market was very nervous, s and p around the 200 week moving average finally started bottoming out. 00:29:11 [Speaker Changed] I mean, I think they do.

Marketing

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So, you know, we, we, we got involved and created a benchmark, a commodity indices at the time. Hank Paulson had left to go become treasury secretary. I mean, it’s impossible to forecast this sort of thing. I mean, when rates were nothing, there was a lot of appetite for 30 or even 50 year treasuries.

Marketing

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Most clients, whether they’re individuals or institutions, have some sort of benchmark, a policy portfolio, some strategic asset allocation that they start with. That gold in this example needs to outperform to have that portfolio or at least keep up with over the long run for that portfolio to not under underperform the benchmark.

Leverage