Future CFO

JULY 17, 2023

Faced with ongoing market volatility, the enterprise C-suite is leaning on its treasury teams like never before to protect company assets and to (ideally) also capitalise on competitive opportunities emerging from an unstable macroeconomic climate. Treasurers should leverage cash forecasts to achieve better cash conversion.

Treasury

PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

While the corporate treasurer's fundamental role has remained steady, the treasury function has seen dramatic impacts from a changing market that is increasingly moving toward real time. Some key tools that emerged as most beneficial to treasurers included physical cash concentration, notional pooling and virtual account solutions.

Treasury

The Finance Weekly

APRIL 25, 2022

That puts the onus on the CFO to manage treasury risks and closely monitor the company’s international contracts. Treasury sanctions across the globe. Forecasting: All of these challenges fall squarely on the finance group’s FP&A capabilities. They can start by checking the U.S.

Finance

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 8, 2024

Long and Variable Lags : The recessionistas who are convinced a recession scenario is likely for 2024 are basing their forecasts a simple fact: Monetary policy impacts the economy on a delay (aka “long and variable lags”). Market Concentration : What happens when the Magnificent 7 is no longer so magnificent? November 29, 2023) _ 1.

Forecasting

Global Finance

JULY 26, 2024

Forecasts from the US Federal Reserve signaling just one modest cut this year will have far-reaching implications on how US-headquartered corporations with Latin American subsidiaries manage their liquidity flows. Latin American firms are also increasingly looking to banking partners for both liquidity provision and treasury services.

Cash Management

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2023

While the rise in treasury rates has been less dramatic this year, rates have continued to rise across the term structure: US Treasury While short term rates rose sharply in the first half of the year, and long term rates stabilized, the third quarter has sen a reversal, with short term rates now stabilizing and long term rates rising.

Marketing

Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

In my third post at the start of 2023, I looked at US treasuries, the long-touted haven of safety for investors. In 2022, they were in the eye on the storm, with the ten-year US treasury bond depreciating in price by more than 19% during the year, the worst year for US treasury returns in a century.

Marketing

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

Global Finance

JULY 25, 2024

Mark Monaco, head of Global Payments Solutions at Bank of America (BofA), explains the importance of payments, instant data and communication for effective treasury. GF: Do you think interest rates have peaked, and are corporate treasuries better positioned to react when new challenges arise?

Treasury

Global Finance

JULY 25, 2024

Mark Monaco, head of Global Payments Solutions at Bank of America (BofA), explains the importance of payments, instant data and communication for effective treasury. GF: Do you think interest rates have peaked, and are corporate treasuries better positioned to react when new challenges arise?

Treasury

Global Finance

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s quick response to the banks’ failures stemmed additional contagion and has left businesses with an object lesson in concentration risk. Some may lack the appropriate treasury management solutions or may not know how to maximize liquidity process efficiency.”

Banking

Future CFO

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Allianz Trade Global Insolvency Index forecasts insolvencies to increase by +6% in 2023 and at least +10% in 2024. Forecasts for 2024 and 2025 “Generally speaking, we don’t see 2024 as a good year,” Lee says, noting that they expect insolvency trends for the year to go up.

Forecasting

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And those were Treasuries. TROPIN: I mean, you know, there were equity hedge funds that were pretty levered, that had pretty highly concentrated, you know, growth bets, and a lot of technology companies and so on. Well, I’m not forecasting another 20% down, but I do think we could go down 5% or 10%. TROPIN: Yeah.

Profit and Loss

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

While the universe of companies is diverse, with approximately half of all firms from emerging markets, it is more concentrated in market capitalization, with the US accounting for 40% of global market capitalization at the start of the year.

Valuation

CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent. Consumer Confidence and Economic Growth. to 25% for the Eurozone. as of March 16, 2022.

Economics

Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent. to 25% for the Eurozone. as of March 16, 2022.

Economics

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

They don’t let the reporters into the fun stuff, but it’s a bunch of CEOs with Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary, and they’re all yakking about this, the big theme that year, as it often has been since then, was environment, ESG, and they’re all talking about the kind of corporate babble that you hear at these things.

Treasury

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