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Treasury professionals: The hardest-to-manage risks

Future CFO

Treasury professionals see macroeconomic risk as one of the hardest to manage. According to Association For Financial Professionals’ 2023 AFP Risk Survey, 43% of treasury professionals consider macroeconomic risk —the pace of GDP growth, inflation and interest rates —to be one of the most challenging risks to manage.

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Companies eye money market funds for cash management

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“Companies in all sectors are quickly becoming attuned to what they’re earning on their cash – and concerned about the cost of their floating rate debt,” said Joseph Quinn , director of liquidity and cash at treasury solutions provider Hazeltree. The second benefit is improved risk management.

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Cash in times of crises: Lessons from 2020-2022

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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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Cyberattacks, Google Crash Bring Internet Security Into Question

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At a time when our nation’s secrets at the NSA and Homeland Security and assets at the Department of the Treasury were able to be illicitly tapped into by foreign hackers, the security and reliability of countless other online industries and enterprises have also been brought into question.

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APAC capital markets during the COVID-19 crisis

Future CFO

We expect Credit and Political Risk Insurance (CPRI) to play an important and increasing role in supporting lenders in mitigating risk, overcoming concentration issues and improving capital adequacy. In Asia, we have seen a rise in demand for surety as a liquidity tool to replace bank guarantee and LC instruments.

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Triumphing over insolvency risks in 2024

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Globally, Allianz Trade is looking at an around 10% increase in 2024, which will be concentrated in the US and European markets, driven mainly by the global economy, what with the expected mild recession in Europe and the continuing Russia-Ukraine war, as well as the coming elections in the US.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

So you go back a couple of years and you could say, “Well, what return is available buying a treasury?” ” And it turned out, if you looked at the market at that time, it was, I’ll call it 1%, five-year treasury or 10-year treasury. So you say, “Well, we need to invest. That could have saved SVB.