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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The provider’s new Money Transfer API supports fund transfers directly into overseas bank accounts, while another API supports money settlement in local currencies to spare recipients from the frictions of handling conversions. However, sending funds abroad may not solve all businesses’ overseas spending needs.

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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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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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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 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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Alternatively, an investor could trade sizable amounts of investments on a usual basis, have more than two years of experience at a financial organization or hold over $74,400 in securities to meet the requirement. For its part, the Bank of Russia recently put forward a report on a possible central bank digital currency (CBDC) rollout.

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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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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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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

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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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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Citi is leveraging a newly formed strategic partnership with Cachematrix to create an online investment gateway for money market funds (MMF), Citi announced in a press release on Tuesday (Oct. The alliance intends to pilot development in the handling of money market funds to automate and simplify investment decisions.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2018

We’re looking to partner with treasury management system [TMS] providers out there. The tool also facilitates integration with end users’ existing enterprise resource planning systems, treasury management systems, billing systems and other portals. Instead, Remlinger explained why the firm is going after third-party developers.

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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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Future CFO

MARCH 21, 2022

Three years after Danone Asia implemented a cloud strategy to its treasury management system, boosting its visibility and control, Pulat Yunusmetov , Danone Asia regional treasury manager, urges companies - on a similar cloud journey - to buck the conventional wisdom of going after the cheapest solution in the market. “Do

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

The role has evolved, along with the complexities of global supply chains and doing business across multiple currencies. In the second annual survey conducted by C2FO focused on corporate treasurers based in Europe, responses showed that 75 percent of the 100 respondents wanted to invest in technology tied to trade finance.

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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

JANUARY 14, 2021

Plus, new concerns mount in Sweden over the rise of Central Bank Digital Currencies and their implications for the traditional banking system. Modern Treasury Raises Funding To Accelerate B2B Payments. RTP already accounts for more than 6 percent of Modern Treasury volume.”. Sweden Considers Implications Of Digital Currency.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2020

But Kellerman and other security experts advocated at the hearing for legislative measures, such as modernizing anti-money laundering (AML) and forfeiture rules and moving the Secret Service to the Treasury Department, to help combat the threat. ” A memo included with the subcommittee’s documents also pointed to 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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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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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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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Treasury Department designated Bitzlato under a section of the USA Patriot Act, a law used to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, for allegedly laundering illicit funds for ransomware actors based in Russia. Deputy Treasury Secretary. authorities designated cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato Ltd. Wally Adeyemo.

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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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Treasury Valuation Currencies Forecasting 74

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The virtual account solution is currently available for clients across Western Europe, supporting 16 jurisdictions and 37 currencies. “API-based integration is one of the biggest topics across the industry,” said Naveed Sultan, the bank’s global head of Treasury and Trade Solutions, in a statement at the time. .

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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. 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.”.

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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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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

Speaking with PYMNTS, Fides Treasury Services Head Client Relations Simon Kaufmann explored how some of the biggest opportunities to modernize the treasury function are adding new pressures to finance teams as they navigate the pandemic. ” Challenge Turned Opportunity.

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Simply Treasury

AUGUST 2, 2022

In early May, the European Commission unveiled its proposal for a "DEBRA" (Debt-equity bias reduction allowance) Directive, aimed at encouraging companies to finance their investments with equity and capital contributions, instead of resorting to loans (bank or other). François Masquelier, CEO of Simply Treasury – Luxembourg June 2022.

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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

DECEMBER 26, 2019

dollar diminished against global currency peers in a slower holiday week, but gold advanced. Ten-year Treasury yields remained around 1.9 The consumer continues to be shown as the supporting pillar,” said Tim Courtney, chief investment officer at Exencial Wealth Advisors. Ten-year Treasuries dropped one basis point to 1.89

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Musings on Markets

JULY 13, 2022

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? That increase in interest rates is not restricted to the US dollar, as local currency government bond rates have risen around the world.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

N26 , the Germany-based FinTech, is reportedly mulling seeking further investments next calendar year only months after a fundraising round that left the firm’s value at $3.5 PYMNTS explores how the coronavirus has exposed the weaknesses of paper-based payments and what that signifies for the future of treasury.

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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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CFO News Room

JANUARY 24, 2023

Not surprisingly, Moneyball has found its way into business and investing as well. After all, we get our restaurant choices from Yelp reviews, our movie recommendations from Rotten Tomatoes, and we have even built crypto currencies around the notion of crowd-checking transactions. Don’t get me wrong!

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