CFO Leadership

AUGUST 12, 2021

The CFO Leadership Council proudly highlights our very first ten Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Ascend Honorees! The Ascend program is an opportunity for Senior Finance Executives from underrepresented groups to join The CFO Leadership Council. She also led the Treasury Tax initiative at Google.

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Cash management has made its way into becoming a key competency for leadership teams in protecting their companies’ overall long-term health. Private fund firms are now putting idle cash to work in money market funds (MMFs), which has the dual benefit of earning a yield from cash holdings in addition to mitigating concentration risk.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Having an experienced succession of crises since the beginning of 2020, FutureCFO asked two finance leaders their views on the challenges facing treasury and cash management during the pandemic and coming out of it. What is the biggest change to the Treasury and Cash Management (TCM) function brought about by the pandemic?

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Future CFO

MARCH 7, 2021

The idea was born following a conversation I had with a fellow CFO who was having difficulties within her own organisation and was seeking advice to help overcome hurdles with the executive leadership team. The organisation I represent, AFP, provides training and certification to treasury and finance professionals. Education matters.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

You still get these, you know, cap driven concentration problems in the market like last year. Now we have an environment wherein essentially hold to maturity risk-free treasuries and things like, you know, money market funds, a lot of money has, has gone back in that direction. Not every day, not every week.

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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.

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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.

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