CFO Talks

MAY 2, 2025

How CFOs Are Turning Treasury into a Strategic Growth Engine If youre still treating your treasury function like a glorified savings account, youre leaving strategic valueand hard cashon the table. What Every CFO Needs to Lead On Smart investment strategy starts with asking: Whats the purpose of this money?

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Global Finance

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Whenever necessary, the service officer relays the query to the specialist for cash or treasury management dedicated to the client. GF: What investments have you made in your payment platform to simplify the customer experience?

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Delving into the key trends shaping the treasury landscape in 2024, the focus is on themes such as staffing challenges, macroeconomic risks, technology adoption, and strategic financial management. Liquidity risk, driven by rising rates and borrowing costs, remains a key challenge for medium-sized and investment-grade companies.

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Global Finance

JULY 26, 2024

Modern treasuries face a diverse array of demands, such as real-time payments, high inflation and interest rates, and new compliance and sustainable finance obligations. Some may lack the appropriate treasury management solutions or may not know how to maximize liquidity process efficiency.”

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

In every introductory finance class, you begin with the notion of a risk-free investment, and the rate on that investment becomes the base on which you build, to get to expected returns on risky assets and investments. What is a risk free investment?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The head of the country’s only licensed and publicly traded cryptocurrency broker says tighter regulation and exponentially higher yields are causing corporate treasury and cash management accounts to seriously consider this alternative asset class. With the treasury market for S&P 500 companies valued at $2.3

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 21, 2023

By the end of 2021, it was clear that this bout of inflation was not as transient a phenomenon as some had made it out to be, and the big question leading in 2022, for investors and markets, is how inflation will play out during the year, and beyond, and the consequences for stocks, bonds and currencies.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

Today, we are making a significant investment to build this market and with highly differentiated offerings providing both private and business clients the opportunity to choose a long-standing industry expert as their payments and FX currency partner.”. or in other countries.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 15, 2025

On the corporate side, companies hold off on big CapEx spending, building new plants, investments, and hiring. New Treasury issuance does not go great, and the cost of financing the United States deficits soars. The dollar loses its status as the world’s reserve currency. Before 2025 ends, a mild recession begins.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Offshore investments become a hedge against currency volatility. High inflation, currency volatility, and foreign exchange scarcity have eroded wealth and significantly contributed to a decline in net worth for many people. The bank has invested in a new core banking system, Finacle.

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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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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

I spend most of my time in the far less rarefied air of corporate finance and valuation, where businesses try to decide what projects to invest in, and investors attempt to estimate business value. A key tool in both endeavors is a hurdle rate a rate of return that you determine as your required return for business and investment decisions.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is warning financial institutions of a “high-profile” new scam exploiting Twitter accounts to try and scam convertible virtual currency (CVC) out of individuals, according to a Thursday (July 16) press release.

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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

MARCH 2, 2020

Lloyd’s of London , the insurance firm, is supporting a new policy that protects digital currency held in digital wallets from hackers, Coindesk reported on Monday (March 2). The policy is reportedly a new insurance type that has a limit that changes with the price fluctuations of covered digital currency assets.

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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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

There’s a maxim in the investment world that goes something like this: You never know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out. In a panel discussion with Karen Webster, six payments, banking and FinTech executives weighed in on the very nature of change that is transforming treasury banking and corporate clients in real time.

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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. How they access the market has also changed.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 27, 2022

By the end of 2021, it was clear that this bout of inflation was not as transient a phenomenon as some had made it out to be, and the big question leading in 2022, for investors and markets, is how inflation will play out during the year, and beyond, and the consequences for stocks, bonds and currencies.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 12, 2024

So when I see a chart like this two things come to mind the first is that looking at crisis peaks — GFC and Covid-19 — is inherently problematic; you are taking outliers that come along once every 15-20 years as opposed to the ordinary treasury issuances. Do we simply ignore the growth in the size of the economy and the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Not only do the founders of projects raising funds via ICO rarely have a background in treasury management, but the nature of the current crypto ecosystem means these innovators need guidance, Siemer told PYMNTS in a recent interview. “On top of that, their clients’ crypto exposure will also affect decisions made.”

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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. GDP Is Hard to Measure Accurately.

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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. CI Capital Asset Management wins as Best Provider of Short-Term Investments/Money Market Funds. billion Egyptian pounds (about $618.7

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 9, 2023

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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CFO News Room

JANUARY 14, 2023

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The complaint claims that the defendants dishonestly claimed to actual and possible clients that their company had “master traders” with a long history of trading digital currency and harnessed “cutting edge trading robots” to trade bitcoin at all hours of the day for clients. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing.

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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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

In the drive to modernize treasury operations, mind the gap — o r gaps. As it turns out, there may be a disconnect between what treasury professionals need in their day-to-day endeavor of cash management and what their service providers think they need. Right now, the focus is on plumbing, said Bateman, and that is as it should be. “If

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The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 30, 2024

It’s really a strategy for handling the money coming in and going out of an organization, making sure there’s enough liquidity to pay bills, invest, and handle any unexpected expenses. They offer a complete suite of features that help businesses forecast cash flows, handle short-term investments, and improve liquidity.

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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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Global Finance

APRIL 7, 2025

These will result in innovations in labor productivity, massive investment in infrastructure as megacities blossom, new economic segments flowing from green energy, and regional hyperconnectivity. Another structural driver will be significant investment in infrastructure related to power generation, trade, and manufacturing.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

As CEO David Solomon said in reference to an ongoing review of the fixed income, currency and commodities division (commonly known as FICC), the company is training its sights on cash management Keep in mind that FICC, for the full year 2018, contributed $5.9 The goal, too, is to serve consumers in investments and wealth management.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 11, 2023

Country Risk: Drivers and Measures. An investment in Nigeria or Turkey clearly exposes a firm or investor to more risks than an otherwise similar investment in Germany or Canada, but why? Country Risk: Currency and Cost of Capital.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 27, 2021

In this post, I will take a look at these other markets, starting with a way of dividing investments into assets, commodities, currencies and collectibles that I find useful in thinking about what I can (and cannot) do in those markets, and then reviewing how these markets performed during 2020.

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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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Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

MAY 29, 2025

However, companies will need to update their systems and processes, including ERP and treasury management tools, that effectively handle these new structured data formats. Invest in Continuous Training: Regularly train finance, accounting, and compliance teams on evolving e-invoicing mandates and international invoicing standards.

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Global Finance

MAY 1, 2025

KFH’s Islamic banking products and services cover commercial, retail, and corporate banking; as well as real estate, trade finance, project finance, asset management, and investments. This includes cash, trade, treasury, and capital-market products.

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