Global Finance

JULY 26, 2024

Staying ahead of the cash management game is vital for treasurers facing multiple challenges, such as economic and political uncertainties, and our award winners are best positioned to do just that. Some may lack the appropriate treasury management solutions or may not know how to maximize liquidity process efficiency.”

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

In today’s challenging economic environment, I am pleased to continue our expansion into a prime market that aligns with our strategic growth plans,” Dowd said in a press release. or in other countries.

Currencies 79

Currencies Foreign Exchange Risk Management Treasury 79

Simply Treasury

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

When we address the issue of the appropriate level of the USD/EUR currency pairs, it is difficult to assess the right level it should reach. The Dollar's weakness against the EUR, and against other currencies, divides analysts on the Dollar's future role in trade. François Masquelier – Simply TREASURY I guess not….

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Simply Treasury

JUNE 3, 2021

Every year, EACT launches a treasury survey to identify top priorities for Corporates. Treasury top priorities. The 2021 EACT survey, as it has become a tradition, attempts early this year to determine what the treasury trends and priorities for multinational companies will be in the next 12 to 24 months.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Long-term guaranteed fixed rates allow corporate treasuries to enhance financial stability, optimize liquidity, and align cash management practices with overall corporate strategy. BofA launched Guaranteed FX Rates beyond a 24-hour period eight years ago, supporting over 200 currency pairs.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

GTreasury , a treasury management system provider, is working with Goldman Sachs on a new solution to offer easier, more transparent B2B payments both at home and internationally, according to a press release. Joining forces with Goldman Sachs makes it simpler, more transparent, and more economic for customers to make payments.”.

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Foreign Exchange Treasury Currencies B2B 99

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The majority of the national debt is issued in the form of government bonds, known as Treasuries. Some worry that excessive government debt levels can impact economic stability with ramifications for the strength of the currency in trade, economic growth, and unemployment. seen debt levels trend down in a material manner.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

“Being the world’s reserve currency, naturally regulators are going to take more time. Real-time settlement negates the need for batch settlement, which has been the norm in corporate treasury departments and within financial institutions (FIs) for decades. As a whole, the U.S. “The U.S. ” Coexisting Systems.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Ghana is looking to drop its currency, the cedi, to join the new West African currency called “eco,” anticipated to replace the CFA franc as early as 2020, Reuters reported. Ghana is not part of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), which is largely comprised of former French colonies.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Corporate treasury professionals are reassessing investment strategies to stay agile and conserve cash amid interest rate shifts and geopolitical uncertainty. A sense of nervousness amid ongoing global disruption pervades strategic thinking across global treasury functions.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 105

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 14, 2023

There are three possible explanations for the divergence: Short term versus Long term : The consumer survey extracts an expectation of inflation in the near term, whereas the treasury markets are providing a longer term perspective, since I am using ten-year rates to derive the market-implied inflation.

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Treasury Economics Investments Marketing 130

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

I was reminded of that paper a few weeks ago, when Fitch downgraded the US, from AAA to AA+, a relatively minor shift, but one with significant psychological consequences for investors in the largest economy in the world, whose currency still dominates global transactions. For an investment to be risk free then, it has to meet two conditions.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2018

Studies also show that most executives agree their top challenge is market volatility and the struggle to determine when — and how — to hedge currency risk. Corporates should be proactively looking at currency risk,” added Frey. Even if a business only deals in USD, fluctuations of other currencies create risk.

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Currencies Foreign Exchange Risk Management Profit and Loss 53

Global Finance

JULY 26, 2024

A fragmented regulatory environment, uneven access to financial services, a shallow pool of readily available funds, and currency controls and limitations in some African markets can lead to trapped cash. A specialist banking partner will help provide and support an effective treasury model to help make the most of the opportunities.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Treasury yield, which helps set borrowing costs on everything from mortgages to corporate loans, settled at 1.930%, its highest close since December 2019. The 10-year Treasury yield, which often climbs when investors expect longer-term growth and inflation, reversed an early descent immediately after the report.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

Treasury ordered public companies to return Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. China is the first country to launch a central bank digital currency (CBDC) or digital currency electronic payment (DCEP). Treasury Directs Public Firms To Return Small Business PPP Money. chains Starbucks, Subway and McDonald’s.

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Treasury Prioritization Currencies eCommerce 58

Global Finance

MARCH 5, 2025

The US Treasury, the European Union, and the intergovernmental Financial Action Task Force (FATF) have deemed certain markets high risk, making operations more costly. The Caribbean is finding its own potential solution in central-bank stable coins, such as the Eastern Caribbean digital currency DCash.

Banking 52

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Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

MAY 29, 2025

Early adopters such as Italy and several South American countries led the way in an attempt to eliminate tax gaps and boost economic efficiency. However, companies will need to update their systems and processes, including ERP and treasury management tools, that effectively handle these new structured data formats.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

This decline in economic activity has tightened cash flows for businesses and consumers alike. This has broadened the ECB’s real-time banking reach to 30 countries and more than 3,800 FIs, setting the stage for countries that transact in different currencies to join the network in the future.”. Problem No.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 9, 2023

There is a market-based estimate of inflation that comes from the US treasury market, where a comparison of yields on a treasury bond with that on a inflation-protected treasury bond of equivalent maturity provides a measure of expected inflation.

Treasury 130

Treasury Currencies Valuation Forecasting 130

Simply Treasury

JUNE 3, 2021

The accounting treatment of currency hedging (timing) mismatches remains a major problem that has become more acute in the wake of the health crisis. When payments were in foreign currencies, this may have affected their results because of currency hedging. Delay in FX hedging, accounting treatment.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Citi is streamlining the cross-border collections process for its corporate treasury clients, the financial institution said Wednesday (Nov. Earlier this year Citi said it would be preparing for an uptick in corporate banking operations despite concerns about an economic slowdown.

Accounting 83

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The pandemic’s ongoing economic impact has naturally raised the stakes for effective and efficient cross-border payments, according to Shreya Fatehpuria , inter-company and foreign exchange (FX) payments leader at GE. The average global company works with at least six banks and 40 percent of them make payments in at least six currencies.

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Healthcare Foreign Exchange Treasury Economics 98

CFO News Room

JANUARY 11, 2023

Country Risk: Currency and Cost of Capital. In my last post, I noted that concerns about inflation have played a big role in pushing up the US ten-year treasury bond rate from 1.51% on Jan 1, 2022, to 3.02% on June 30, 2022.

Marketing 130

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

The digital transformation of corporate treasury is not a destination; it’s a journey. 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.

Cash Flow Forecasting 92

Cash Flow Forecasting Treasury Foreign Exchange Benchmarking 92

CFO News Room

JANUARY 25, 2023

VIX Index, S&P 500 Index, US Dollar Index, and US High-Yield/10-year Treasury Yield Spread (2022) (Source: Bloomberg Finance, LP) But 2022 was a year uncommonly flush with exceptional stressors, especially for financial institutions. His research focuses on financial markets, monetary policy, and problems in economic measurement.

Economics 130

Economics Foreign Exchange Finance Banking 130

Musings on Markets

MAY 6, 2022

There are three possible explanations for the divergence: Short term versus Long term : The consumer survey extracts an expectation of inflation in the near term, whereas the treasury markets are providing a longer term perspective, since I am using ten-year rates to derive the market-implied inflation.

Treasury 103

Treasury Economics Marketing Investments 103

Global Finance

JULY 26, 2024

Companies operating in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) continue to face unique challenges when it comes to cash management, due to a mix of economic development and regional variations. Citi continued its focus on intelligent pooling solutions in 2023 with the market expansion of cross-currency sweeps in CEE.

Cash Management 52

Cash Management Treasury Currencies Banking 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 27, 2021

In my last post , I described the wild ride that the price of risk took in 2020, with equity risk premiums and default spreads initially sky rocketing, as the virus led to global economic shutdowns, and then just as abruptly dropping back to pre-crisis levels over the course of the year. Currencies : A currency serves three functions.

Currencies 52

Currencies Investments Marketing Treasury 52

Treasury Talent

JULY 26, 2021

? ?. Today’s episode is a monthly economic forecast for Treasurers from our regular guest, Michael Braude. Updates on the currency markets. . The post Michael Braude – Economic Update Monthly #23 | Episode 192 appeared first on Treasury Talent. In this episode we discuss: . Current movements in the bond markets. .

Economics 40

Economics Treasury Currencies Forecasting 40

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 98

Marketing Treasury Currencies Valuation 98

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The G-7 plans are likely to send oil prices higher (despite US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen claiming the opposite ) and reduce tanker availability, both of which will threaten India’s energy security and hurt its economy as India is the third-largest consumer and importer of oil worldwide. Source link.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

But the trillions of dollars intended to help shield individuals, families and businesses from the economic ravages of the coronavirus are still dependent (in some ways) on decades-old conduits that show just how creaky the process is for getting emergency funds where they need to go.

Accounting 99

Accounting Banking Currencies Treasury 99

Musings on Markets

JULY 13, 2022

Country Risk: Currency and Cost of Capital As a final part to this post, to see the shifts in country risk that we have seen in 2022, let’s start with an assessment of risk free rates. That increase in interest rates is not restricted to the US dollar, as local currency government bond rates have risen around the world.

Currencies 103

Currencies Economics Valuation Treasury 103

Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

There is a market-based estimate of inflation that comes from the US treasury market, where a comparison of yields on a treasury bond with that on a inflation-protected treasury bond of equivalent maturity provides a measure of expected inflation.

Treasury 99

Treasury Valuation Currencies Forecasting 99

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

MicroStrategy was reportedly the first public firm to invest most of its treasury in the cryptocurrency in the summer, according to Bloomberg. Saylor said per the report, “Once the real yield on our treasury got to more than negative 10 percent, we realized that everything we are doing on P&L is irrelevant.”.

Treasury 68

Treasury Currencies Forecasting Economics 68

CFA Institute

DECEMBER 15, 2023

He joined the company in 2017 as a consultant helping banks across Europe improve their risk and treasury frameworks and decision making. Ladislao Vidal, CFA, is a sales executive at FIS, which provides technological solutions for the banking sector. Previously, Vidal worked at several tier 1 banks, assessing their liquidity and credit risk.

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