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The CFO's role in IPO preparations

Future CFO

These include controllership, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Investor Relations (IR), financial operations (FinOps), business finance, tax, treasury, and more. A crucial aspect of the CFO’s role is benchmarking the company’s profitability against both local and global peers.

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Citi Warns Treasurers To Update Approach To FX Risk

PYMNTS

Citi released a new report this week warning corporate treasurers to improve their FX risk mitigation efforts. The biggest question is, will more multinationals adapt their legacy FX risk management processes and practices to navigate the changing market environment?”. The bank said Thursday (Mar. Yet, status quo prevails.

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Multinational Corporates Face Rising FX Hedging Pressure

PYMNTS

businesses and their partners around the globe must hedge against FX risk, the latest analyst from Citi warns that FX hedging should be a top priority for companies in emerging markets. And while expected currency fluctuations resulting from Brexit will surely mean U.K.

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LIBOR transition for corporates - tackling outstanding challenges

PWC UK

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.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

SEIDES: If the S&P is your benchmark, which it isn’t for these pools of capital. RITHOLTZ: What should be their benchmark? So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. So what do you use for a benchmark? 14, 15% a year? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

They create the benchmark. DAVIS: A big part of it is really around when there’s more complicated corporate actions that are happening that entail a level of risk. 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?

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

And they also have a unique approach to feeds when they’re generating alpha, when they’re outperforming their benchmark, they take a performance fee. So, you know, our sister company in South Africa, Africa have done 8% above the benchmark. And the third, the one that nobody talks about is risk management.