CFO News Room

JANUARY 14, 2023

The nature of markets is that they are never quite settled, as investors recalibrate expectations constantly and reset prices. Clearly, we are not in one of those time periods, as markets approach bipolar territory, with big moves up and down.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

labor market boosted investors’ expectations that central banks will begin steadily raising interest rates to fight inflation. 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 benchmark 10-year U.S.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

As the world’s attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. The Market Reaction. Bond Markets and Default Risk. Equity Markets and Equity Risk Premiums. The Lead In.

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Treasury Talent

JULY 26, 2021

Today’s episode is a monthly economic forecast for Treasurers from our regular guest, Michael Braude. He is going to share what’s happening in the commodities, risk and bond markets amid this rapidly changing world. . Current movements in the bond markets. . Updates on the currency markets. .

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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

By the start of 2022, the window for early action had closed and for much of this year, inflation has been the elephant in the room, driving markets and forcing central banks to be reactive, and its presence has already induced me to write three posts on its impact.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

JPMorgan ’s Head of Global Liquidity Product Solutions Specialists, Lori Schwartz , told PYMNTS in a recent Masterclass that the very nature of liquidity management is changing — and leading treasury management professionals to pivot to digitization and move from physical to virtual accounts. You’ve got to adhere to currency cut-off times.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 1, 2022

As inflation has taken center stage, markets have gone into retreat globally, and across asset classes. In 2022, as bond rates have risen, stock prices have fallen, and crypto has imploded, even true believers are questioning what the bottom for markets might be, and when we will get there.

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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

APRIL 22, 2016

The corporate treasurer at the multinational corporation is facing a particularly fierce global market today. But technology is changing the foreign exchange trading game, and market volatility may be the only sure thing in this space. The FX Market Has Changed. All of that impacts the FX market. Amid the U.S.

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Musings on Markets

MAY 24, 2021

As we approach the mid point of 2021, financial markets, for the most part, have had a good year so far. Put simply, inflation is a measure of the change in purchasing power in a given currency over time. What is inflation? Implicit in this definition are two key components of inflation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

BNP Paribas’ partnership with Kantox will offer corporate treasurers in EMEA the opportunity to access a fully automate hedging solution and ultimately improve their treasury processes.”. The FX company spoke with PYMNTS last month about the role that automation plays in enabling corporates around the world to manage and mitigate FX risk.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2019

moneycorp, has acquired an Australian independent treasury advisory company called the Rochford Group for an undisclosed sum, according to reports. That deal marked the company’s first foray into the South American market. Rochford helps its clients manage how treasury risks affect their balance sheets, cash and profitability.

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Musings on Markets

MAY 6, 2022

The nature of markets is that they are never quite settled, as investors recalibrate expectations constantly and reset prices. Clearly, we are not in one of those time periods, as markets approach bipolar territory, with big moves up and down.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. The increase in default spreads was not restricted to foreign markets, as fear also pushed up spreads in the corporate bond market.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar also declared India’s intention to continue to buy Russian oil, again disregarding the US appeal to allies and partners to isolate Russia from the global markets. Pakistan is also now asking the Russian Trade Ministry to introduce a currency swap arrangement to strengthen economic ties between the two countries.

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CFO Simplified

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Think in terms of Treasury Management. If you have a cash flow forecast, make sure that all your cash needs are shown on it, and that you have projected out your needs for more than the typical 13-week forecast. Know the Market – As your business has grown over the years, its needs have changed.

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PWC UK

JANUARY 26, 2021

by Christopher Raftopoulos Director, Treasury Advisory and Assurance. LIBOR transition has been a hot topic for the corporate treasury community for at least the past year. by Christopher Raftopoulos Director, Treasury Advisory and Assurance. Email +44 (0)7753 928134. More articles by Christopher. Email +44 (0)7753 928134.

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CFO Leadership

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Asia’s natural gas prices look much more like the EU’s than ours, and thus exerts far greater inflationary pressure in those markets than it does here, implying our inflation may be more easily addressed than in the rest of the developed world. Even Apple’s market cap is down 20% from its peak. Global Supply Chains. The Crypto Winter.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 27, 2023

At a recent roundtable discussion, co-organised by FutureCFO and Moody’s Analytics senior finance executives dissected the issues and concerns that face Singapore-based finance leaders must navigate amid the continuity volatility and uncertainties of markets around the region and globally. He called for faster forecast scenarios.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 12, 2023

As inflation has taken center stage, markets have gone into retreat globally, and across asset classes. In 2022, as bond rates have risen, stock prices have fallen, and crypto has imploded, even true believers are questioning what the bottom for markets might be, and when we will get there.

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Investments Profit and Loss Treasury Marketing 130

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

MARCH 2, 2016

Global Treasury Advisory Services Practice Partner Karlien Porre in a statement. Without accurate measurement, value erosion from negative currency rate movements can’t be anticipated or prevented.”. “If you can’t see it, you can’t manage it,” said Deloitte U.K.

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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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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2016

More than half of treasury departments surveyed by the firm, however, say that a lack of visibility into their corporations’ exposure to this risk, as well as unreliable FX forecasts, are their top challenges. At the tip of everyone’s tongue in the treasury department these days is the rising value of the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

The Asset reported news on Monday (March 5) that its initial review of chief financial officers (CFOs), part of its ongoing Treasury Review 2018 initiative, found service quality to be the number one recommendation for treasurers and CFOs when choosing a financial services provider with cash management services.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

Some of the biggest industry trends, including faster payments, open banking and bank-FinTech collaboration, have found their ways into the Canadian market, the B2B payments space is not immune to disruption from these shifts. Faster Payments. Open Banking. Plus, those back office platforms aren’t always integrated with each other, either.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2017

In its quarterly earnings call, Fifth Third had President and CEO Greg Charmichael reflect on the quarter and the current market climate. 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.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 20, 2021

Investors are constantly in search of a single metric that will tell them whether a market is under or over valued, and consequently whether they should buying or selling holdings in that market. Risk premiums can and will change over time : Risk premiums are driven by risk aversion, and risk aversion itself can change over time.

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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. The effect on new car prices was modest, as the main effect in that market was backlogs and queues.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 22, 2019

What can be changed is the linked currency, which is now the US dollar, and the range of the linked exchange rate level.”. When the HKD weakens to 7.85, the HKMA purchases the currency and that results in a fall of the HKD liquidity. HKD and interest rate forecasts ING also predicts that the HKD’d strengthen from the current 7.84

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

What’s more, although there is likely to be a range of long-term implications on how organizations operate their AP departments well after the pandemic, the effects of widespread, sudden digitization and automation may not be exactly what many in the market expect today. ” Prolific Impacts. ”

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Planful

JANUARY 3, 2017

Treasury and cash management. Orchestrating and managing a rolling forecast process. What-if modeling of different financial or operational scenarios (M&As, reorganizations, new product or market entry, long-range planning, cash flow forecasting, etc.). Accounts payable. Order processing and billing.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

I spent the first week of 2021 in the same way that I have spent the first week of every year since 1995, collecting data on publicly traded companies and analyzing how they navigated the cross currents of the prior year, both in operating and market value terms.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2018

That means retailers and other companies need to up their risk management and hedging games — and do so before one crisis or another (a currency collapse in Turkey one week, who knows what next?) These long-term trends can derail a business irrespective [of] how they are performing in the local currency.”. Quantify Risk.

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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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