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Argentina: Breathing Space?

Global Finance

President Javier Milei’s currency moves give markets room for planning, but his ambitious economic restructuring faces roadblocks. For the better part of 30 years, Argentina has been making economic headlines for the wrong reasons. While the cepo [currency controls] is in place, this won’t change.

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EACT SURVEY 2021

Simply Treasury

Major priorities over the next one to two years: We are not surprised that Cash-Flow Forecasting comes out on top when the COVID crisis has been hitting us for the past year. The uncertainties surrounding the economy explain the difficulty in producing reliable and accurate forecasts.

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Economic Stability For Payments and Commerce: An Old-Fashioned Idea

PYMNTS

When it comes to currency and global trade, “stability” seems like a quaint concept these days, an increasingly distant memory that takes on the trappings of nostalgia. One currency goes into crisis, and then another. Currency fluctuations can hurt payments and commerce operators that are not prepared to manage that risk.

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Why ‘Micro-Multinationals’ Should Worry About FX Risk

PYMNTS

Fluctuating foreign exchange rates are a relatively new phenomenon,” he told Webster. “It No one yet has found a good way to price exchange rates or to price currencies. Costs of goods or services used to produce — well, goods and services — are invoiced in foreign currencies.

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Bond Yields Surge in Europe as Old Jitters Return

CFO News Room

That was well above forecasts from economists who had expected a larger drag from the latest wave of Covid-19 cases. The bloc has a long history of divergent economic growth between the prosperous north, in countries such as Germany and the Netherlands, and the heavily indebted south, led by Italy, Greece and Spain.

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All The World’s A Stage For (Prudent) FX Risk Management

PYMNTS

However, managing foreign exchange (FX) risk is part of the territory — and, as he told PYMNTS, a calculated approach to currency exposure is key. history, businesses were relatively sheltered from changes in the currency markets. For much of U.S. The short answer is: no. They get it wrong, though, year after year.

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JPMorgan On Corporate Treasurers And Their ‘Digitization Journey’

PYMNTS

It stands to reason that firms that have been around for decades, with far-flung operations and payments done across multiple currencies, have a range of legacy systems in place with less-than-efficient processes entrenched in back-office functions.