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.

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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. That was well above forecasts from economists who had expected a larger drag from the latest wave of Covid-19 cases. The benchmark 10-year U.S. The moves extended after the U.S.

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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. The Lead In. Economic Consequences. Consumer Confidence and Economic Growth.

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The Finance Weekly

APRIL 25, 2022

Any company with a global supply chain is inherently vulnerable to the fluctuations in currency and input prices that this crisis is intensifying. That puts the onus on the CFO to manage treasury risks and closely monitor the company’s international contracts. Treasury sanctions across the globe. Follow Affairs Consistently.

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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.

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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. The executive forecasts that asset inflation will jump to in excess of 20 percent annually, which would drastically decline purchasing power.

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CFO Leadership

MARCH 31, 2022

Global operations make it more challenging for small treasury teams in mid-market companies to handle day-to-day operations efficiently and securely. New currencies, global banking structures, regional regulations, disparate processes, and disconnected systems all add complexities to the treasury operations.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

In a third post on July 1, 2022 , I pointed to inflation as a key culprit in the retreat of risk capital, i.e., capital invested in the riskiest segments of every market, and presented evidence of the impact on risk premiums (bond default spreads and equity risk premiums) in markets.

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Musings on Markets

MAY 6, 2022

Inflation: The Full Story I wrote my first post on this blog in 2008, and inflation merited barely a mention until 2020, though it is an integral component of investing and valuation. Investors who are old enough to remember the 1970s point to it as a decade of high inflation, but that is only with the benefit of hindsight.

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Strategic Treasurer

MARCH 6, 2023

In the Language of Finance sub-series, we will look into different terms that should be understood in order to communicate effectively with the rest of your treasury team and with others. How does the language of FP&A differ from treasury? Does it mean currency? Listen in to find out. What is it? How does it work?

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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. In fact, since trading has been suspended on both indices, the extent of the damage is probably understated.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 12, 2023

To put risk capital in perspective, it is best to start with a definition of risk that is comprehensive and all-inclusive, and that is to think of risk as a combination of danger (downside) and opportunity (upside) and to consider how investments vary in terms of exposure to both.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2016

But not every firm is prioritizing the use of technology that can provide more sophisticated financial forecasting. Treasury management technology firm Reval says Brexit makes it painfully clear that, for those businesses not conducting contingency and scenario planning, their financial situations are far less stable.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2017

In their Strategic Role of Treasury Survey , the AFP and Marsh & McLennan identified the forces pressing companies to shift the treasury department into a more strategic position. Most professionals said geopolitical risk has led to concerns over a loss of revenue or customers, while 49 percent cited the concern over currency risk.

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Strategic Treasurer

JANUARY 3, 2022

Host Craig Jeffery kicks off the 2022 Outlook series with a conversation with Jon Paquette, Senior Financial Solutions Expert at TIS (Treasury Intelligence Solutions), on the outlook of payments. They discuss technology developments that will likely have the biggest impact on treasury in 2022. Host: Craig Jeffery, Strategic Treasurer.

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CFO Leadership

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Our Advice: Continue to hone those scenario planning skills, including how to include a continued volatile energy landscape in your forecasts. You’ll need multiple forecasts that consider the different scenarios, because as 2022 has shown us energy costs will remain volatile. If OPEC has its way, oil will remain around $80 per barrel.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 1, 2022

To put risk capital in perspective, it is best to start with a definition of risk that is comprehensive and all-inclusive, and that is to think of risk as a combination of danger (downside) and opportunity (upside) and to consider how investments vary in terms of exposure to both.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 20, 2021

The Price of Risk The price of risk is what investors demand as a premium, an extra return over and above what they can make on a guaranteed investment (risk free), to invest in a risky asset. Intuitively, if you want to earn a higher risk premium on an investment, holding cash flows fixed, you will pay less for that investment today.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Teoh shared with us her thoughts on some of the gender-related challenges at work and how to overcome them, advice on how to deal with the new normal as a finance executive, and how she reimagines borderless digital currencies as a “point junkie”. Sereen Teoh, CFO, BIG Loyalty. FutureCFO: Can you share with me your finance career journey?

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2017

The cloud treasury and finance management solution provider released its 1H 2017 results last week, highlighting what Kyriba said was record sales growth at 43 percent for the half. a share (surpassing forecasts of $2.75 Earnings may have surpassed expectations for IBM at $2.95

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

Put simply, I possess no exclusivity here, and staying consistent with my thesis, I don't expect to expect to make money by investing based upon this data. First, all value numbers (like market capitalization, debt or revenues) that I aggregate or average will be converted into US dollars to ensure currency consistency.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The modern hyperinflations and currency collapses of (among others) Germany and Zimbabwe conventionally fall into the same category, even though these undoubtedly had differential effects on exports, imports, and non-tradables. In 2009, caution prevailed, with a “targeted and temporary” expansion program including a large tax-cut component.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In its “ The road to real-time treasury ,” Deutsche Bank urges treasurers to get ready for a world of real-time transacting. Deutsche Bank noted that this can have multiple positive impacts on corporate treasury, including faster cross-currency payments, faster FX exposure management, and faster actions taken to address FX volatility.

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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. Yet, it's when these two techniques are combined that a treasurer can truly optimize liquidity management across borders and currencies.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

A new report from Deutsche Bank said this industry path is guiding banks and corporates to a new destination: real-time treasury. ” Banks and corporates will be challenged to accurately forecast their liquidity management needs as real-time transacting spreads. . ”

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

He holds all sorts of fascinating titles in addition to chief investment officer for bonds. trillion in various investments. If you’re at all interested in a lecture school in investing or fixed income, or active and passive, this is just a masterclass as to how to do it right. You’re chief investment officer.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

If you’re all interested in macro investing, trend following, commodities, currencies, fixed income, various types of quantitative strategies, and most important of all, risk management, you’re going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. RITHOLTZ: And those were Treasuries. TROPIN: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You work at Capital Growth Financial and in former global markets before you join investing Giant Merrill Lynch in 2007, what was that transition like from smaller shops to a really, really big one? What do you see in, in treasuries and the fixed income half of the portfolio? Safe harbor harbor here, a little apo apocalyptic currency.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

How fundamental was that to your learning about investing, trading risk management, starting with futures? So we, we became, we went from fixed income and j Aaron to thick fixed income currency and commodities. You had a lot of currency forwards trading, which made se made sense. Made sense. So we, we managed to make that work.

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