Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Also in industry news this week: Most businesses that operate in the U.S., Also in industry news this week: Most businesses that operate in the U.S.,

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Concentration Practice Management Treasury Numbers 92

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 25, 2023

Treasury bills that will mature over the next several months while paying a premium to buy debt issued by Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson, two of the highest-rated U.S. More powerful influencers sell better-quality products, but pluralism in style mitigates market concentration by effectively differentiating consumer experience.

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Concentration Treasury Economics Marketing 102

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 104

Marketing Treasury Valuation Investments 104

Strategic Treasurer

JANUARY 6, 2022

Coffee Break Session Host Alexa Cook catches up with Strategic Treasurer’s Managing Partner, Craig Jeffery, to discuss what RTP is and how it can be advantageous from a treasury perspective. Hey guys, welcome to The Treasury Update Podcast Coffee Break Session. Hey guys, welcome to The Treasury Update Podcast Coffee Break Session.

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Treasury Concentration Reconciliations Banking 52

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. Any company with a global supply chain is inherently vulnerable to the fluctuations in currency and input prices that this crisis is intensifying. They can start by checking the U.S.

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Finance Forecasting Treasury Concentration 107

Simply Treasury

JULY 12, 2021

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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Treasury Cash Flow Forecasting Concentration Finance 130

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.

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Economics Valuation Treasury Forecasting 130

Musings on Markets

MAY 5, 2023

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. The first is the duration of these securities , relative to the duration of the deposit base, with a greater mismatch associated with more risk.

Banking 76

Banking Profit and Loss Investments Securities 76

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

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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Securities Concentration Economics Transportation 77

PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

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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CFO Leadership

AUGUST 12, 2021

She also led the Treasury Tax initiative at Google. She has extensive public speaking, general finance, capital markets, treasury, and tax experience. Kim Ngyuen came to the US from Vietnam to further her education and obtained her MBA with a concentration in Accounting at Albertus Magnus College.

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Leadership CFO Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance 98

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.

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Economics Valuation Treasury Forecasting 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Flywire’s success has been based on a few core concentrations, said Massaro – namely pricing, with attendant analytics, which he said give indications of fair and reasonable pricing defined on a market-by-market basis in education (also healthcare). India’s tally here stands at 15 percent, said Massaro.

Education 45

Education Concentration Healthcare Treasury 45

PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2018

Experts note that the trade finance gap is concentrated in Asia, and that other markets, like Europe, aren’t feeling drastic effects. .” Even as banks (at least, in the U.S.) plan to expand lending activity, and even as they collaborate with FinTechs, analysts warn that FIs haven’t yet been able to address the $1.5

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Finance Foreign Exchange Concentration Currencies 50

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).

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Investments Currencies Treasury Hurdle Rate 80

PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Janet Yellen, President Joe Biden's nominee for Treasury Secretary, is expected to take a hard stance on cryptocurrencies, calling digital currency a “particular concern” that is used “mainly for illicit financing,” Arstechnica and other news outlets reported on Thursday (Jan. Regulators in the U.S.

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Treasury Concentration Credit Risk Compliance 112

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.

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Treasury Concentration Currencies Banking 103

PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2017

This means banks are at risk for “concentrated points of failure” along certain parts of their businesses, especially areas like card processing or denial-of-service mitigation, if FIs are using a third-party partner to handle these aspects of their operations.

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Banking Compliance Currencies Concentration 46

Future CFO

DECEMBER 18, 2020

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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Marketing Profit and Loss Finance Credit Risk 52

Future CFO

MARCH 7, 2021

The organisation I represent, AFP, provides training and certification to treasury and finance professionals. I always promote flexible work arrangements especially for moms with young kids so that they could reduce stress, having a peaceful mind and an easier time to concentrate when working and deliver the best. Education matters.

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Finance SAP Leadership CFO 52

CS Lucas

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The Need for Specialized Technology Solutions To address this pressing need, treasury teams are relying on CS Lucas Treasury Management System’s dedicated syndicated loan modules. Let’s explore some of the key capabilities of CS Lucas: 1. Management and auditors gain on-demand reporting.

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Technology Treasury IFRS Compliance 52

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 95

Marketing Treasury Currencies Valuation 95

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.

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Valuation Currencies Numbers Corporate Finance 52

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 8, 2024

Banks hold over $3 trillion in CRE; Unrealized losses on Treasuries and mortgages are about $684bn (Source: Torsten Slok, Apollo). Market Concentration : What happens when the Magnificent 7 is no longer so magnificent? Weaker demand to more people working from home, and of course higher interest rates are a drag on this sector.

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Forecasting Concentration Marketing Construction 129

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The United Kingdom’s economic and finance ministry, HM Treasury, seeks input on the challenges that the sharing economy creates for value-added tax (VAT). There will be rising market concentration among large platforms that are often known internationally and have much control over underlying service providers.

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Concentration Treasury Economics Compliance 64

PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2016

Doing so, the company said in its announcement, means “cross-border transactions and multi-entity cash will be concentrated in one place.” Recent analysis by Deloitte pointed to inter-company transactions as a particularly challenging aspect of accounting and treasury management for corporates.

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Treasury Concentration Cash Management Reconciliations 40

Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Cost of Capital & Failure Risk : For the cost of capital, I will assume that Airbnb’s cost of capital will be 6.50%, close to the cost of capital of hotel companies, to start the valuation, but over time, it will rise to 7.23%, reflecting an expected increase in the treasury bond rate from current levels to 2% in 2031.

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Profit and Loss Valuation Investments Numbers 52

Future CFO

JANUARY 10, 2024

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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Forecasting Concentration Economics Risk Management 52

PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

Nearly three-quarters of the companies surveyed by iGTB said that they experience a lack of integration of their treasury management or ERP systems with the banking solutions offered by their banks — a statistic Cantor deemed “outrageous.”. This customer segment also expressed a lack of liquidity management services from their banks, too.

Banking 41

Banking Concentration Treasury Cash Management 41

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

stocks (which have a lengthy track record of outperforming inflation over long time horizons) and Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS). In addition, advisors can also address different ways clients can protect their savings for retirement and other long-term goals against inflation, including U.S.

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Planning Benchmarking Profit and Loss Communication 130

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

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.

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Benchmarking Investments Marketing Treasury 52

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

After all, in a world where prospecting was almost entirely a function of networking and establishing relationships with Centers Of Influence who could refer the advisor, almost by definition the advisor’s marketing efforts would concentrate on the local market where they could engage in such in-person relationship-building.

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Planning Technology Valuation Communication 130

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

And I said, “Look, you’ve got to look at where we are with valuations, and you have to look at where the 10-year Treasury is at. We lowered our expected returns significantly, to the point where advisors were kind of upset with me. Is it at 1.5%?” Cean: Correct. And so, this went on for probably two years.

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Restructuring Planning Accounting Marketing 130

PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2018

The impact will be concentrated and may have some blowback here in the States. As for investments, that’s the purview of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Consider the fact that the tariffs are concentrated on things like apples and wine, where the sum total is about $1 billion and where the tariffs would be about 15 percent.

Investments 40

Investments Concentration Treasury Economics 40

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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Investments Marketing Concentration Economics 56

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

He developed the Ginnie Mae contract, which at one time was a big thing in treasury bond contract. Low price stock has historically had some very large concentrated positions. You really only want to concentrate in the very high conviction companies of really superior and clearly health South was not clear.

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Benchmarking Concentration Investments Profit and Loss 102

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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Treasury Economics Retail Entertainment 52