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Ramifications of the Ukraine Crisis for the Finance Function & How to Deal with It

The Finance Weekly

That puts the onus on the CFO to manage treasury risks and closely monitor the company’s international contracts. Treasury sanctions across the globe. More analyses need to look beyond sales projections and gauge delivery streams that determine how much, and when, revenue will be earned and realized in cash.

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François Masquelier (Simply Treasury): Small is Beautiful

Simply Treasury

Large MNCs are today using big ERPs, customized to their needs, integrated, or interfaced to many other IT treasury solutions dedicated to certain tasks. These companies are often managing finance and treasury on separate financial systems which are poorly integrated, if integrated at all. Treasury system needs is a huge pound.

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Breach of Trust: Decoding the Banking Crisis

Musings on Markets

A bank that is funded primarily with demand deposits, which invests in 10-year bonds, is exposed to more risk than if invests in commercial paper or treasury bills. Thus, in the first quarter of 2023, the bank reported a 41% drop in deposits, triggering forced sale of investment securities, and the realization of losses on those sales.

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Big Fizzle: The Recession Comes, Quickly

PYMNTS

Whether the unemployment picture reaches 10 percent, as we’ve seen before, or 20 percent, as Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has posited, the ripple effects will be enormous. Amazon Effect Cooled (Somewhat): Amazon is concentrating on selling and shipping coronavirus-related products like household staples and medical supplies.

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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

Musings on Markets

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.

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The Sharing Economy come home: The IPO of Airbnb!

Musings on Markets

While the concept was heavily promoted, it has been slow to take off, with only $10 million in sales in 2017, but Airbnb has not given up, hiring Catherine Powell, a Disney theme park executive in 2020, to revamp the business. While the US remains the largest market, geographically, Asia is the center of growth, with China leading the way.

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Triumphing over insolvency risks in 2024

Future CFO

“A lot of Chinese exporters are setting up subsidiaries in Hong Kong,” Lee says, noting that these selling arms in Hong Kong could take up 10% to 20% of the exporters’ sales, generally speaking. Additionally, Lee highlights that they see a lot of potential for credit insurance because the sales booked in Hong Kong are all exports.