PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

(FDIC) and the Treasury Department are looking to see if American Express Co. The paper reported that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is looking into business card sales tactics at the company as well, citing unnamed sources. “We 7), citing unnamed sources.

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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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Strategic Treasurer

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Details were gathered about banks’ concerns and recommendations for client security, corporate payment complexity, volumes, currencies, challenges, plans for technology use, and more. Among the top findings were the following points: Multiple Systems and Security Fraud Management Top List of Payment Challenges.

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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. Providing customers with mobile, telephone and online payment capabilities on a multi-currency platform, moneycorp also enables them to exchange money through 120 currencies.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Global cloud treasury and finance firm Kyriba has introduced the Kyriba Payments Network to deal with the developing chief financial officer (CFO) mandate to streamline payments and fight payments fraud, the company said in a press release on Wednesday (Feb. via an API that loops into The Clearing House’s RTP network. .

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

With such an outcome having been largely expected, sterling’s immediate reaction has been muted as the news was already priced in,” reflected Caxton FX currency expert Michael Brown in an interview with Express.co.uk And while expected currency fluctuations resulting from Brexit will surely mean U.K.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2017

Citi released a new report this week warning corporate treasurers to improve their FX risk mitigation efforts. The biggest question is, will more multinationals adapt their legacy FX risk management processes and practices to navigate the changing market environment?”. The bank said Thursday (Mar. Yet, status quo prevails.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The company’s latest 2017 Global Corporate Treasury Survey was recently published, and it’s not surprising that, since its 2015 report, Deloitte found that treasurers continue to face new pressure from their executive committees and boards to become a strategic, value-added role within the enterprise. Technology Tripping Up Treasury.

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Reval

MARCH 7, 2017

2) Enhanced Risk Management Toolbox. As costs of hedging include time value of options – as well as currency basis and forward points – options can now come back into the toolbox of the risk manager. To apply component hedging, it is necessary that the component can be identified separately and measured reliably.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

“The world is moving toward better technology, simpler design and instant access to data and automated analytics,” said Mark Smith, Citi Global head of liquidity management services, treasury and trade solutions. “We Cachematrix is excited to power Citi’s Online Investments portal with our best-in-class financial technology.

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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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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2016

The conversation about exposure to FX risk continues to mount alongside the strengthening U.S. 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.

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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

MARCH 2, 2016

If you can’t see it, you can’t manage it,” said Deloitte U.K. 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.”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2016

The new platform, announced on Tuesday (April 5), sees corporate treasurers able to access and trade foreign currency over Banking Circle, which connects payers and banks. Saxo added in its release that it will also support payments using the currencies traded over the new solution.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Citi recently made 50 APIs available to business clients, designed to connect easily with treasury software. Western Union’s trio of new APIs can perform a P2P transfer function, as well as send money to business accounts or Western Union agents in local currency.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

Lisa Lansdowne-Higgins, vice president of business deposits and treasury solutions at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), recently told PYMNTS that these three disruptors have a significant opportunity to shake up accounts payable processes thanks to the impact they have on data.

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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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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2018

dollar was not good for Netflix in the second quarter, and the company’s experience (or lack thereof) with currency hedging holds lessons for other participants in the digital economy. Things can change almost overnight, and that can be more challenging for their treasury people.”. What’s good for the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

For many firms, these trends are forcing the introduction of an FX strategy on a company for the very first time, and when corporate treasurers aren’t prepared, they can run into complications beyond the cost of currency exchange. A recent controversy at American Express highlighted that risk for SMBs.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

Unfortunately, the latest analysis of corporate earnings suggests bottom lines are taking a significant hit as a result of FX risk exposures. Given today’s market conditions, currency volatility will only continue. Below, PYMNTS looks at the numbers behind the latest analysis on corporates’ FX risks and related losses.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

importer told the publication of its reliance on surcharges to mitigate the risk of currency fluctuations. Last month, reports in the Financial Times made clear that businesses will increasingly be faced with decisions they must make about how to manage foreign exchange volatility. “We importer said.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 21, 2021

As liquidity became a significant concern for organizations, the Treasury Department was asked to monitor inflows and outflows more closely. Co-hosed by Kyriba, the lively discussion highlighted a general shift toward the digital Treasury. One immediate challenge that the Treasury department faced was foreign exchange (FX) exposure.

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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. They struggle to keep an overview on their cash and risk positions. A professional cash management solution can help to overcome these challenges. In the dark about global cash?

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2016

Less than a quarter of those surveyed said they had established hedges to mitigate currency or interest rate volatility, for example, according to Greenwich Associates.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 27, 2023

You need constant monitoring of your economic outlook because then you can adjust your risk management strategy that will help you mitigate third-party risks." Everyone else in the company is trying to meet their KPIs, grab whatever they can find on the table, and pretty much have zero already got a risk, right?

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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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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2016

The procurement of raw materials can expose an organization to some serious market volatility, the risk management software firm said, and much of the solutions these firms are using to mitigate risk, like ERP solutions, don’t quite make the grade when covering a business’ exposure to commodity trade risk.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

CIT, meanwhile, will offer its Treasury and Payment Services tools to streamline cash flows for SMBs when both sending and receiving payment. Argos Risk, Gatekeeper Enable Third-Party Management. Dynamic discounting can mean lucrative discounts on the accounts payable side, and faster payments on the accounts receivable side.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Corporate finance executives and financial service providers quickly acknowledged a dramatic change in the treasury department: Over the last decade, the corporate treasurer has become a strategic component of the enterprise, driving growth in a challenging, constantly changing market. Treasury in general is risk-averse,” he said. “If

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2019

The combination of Visa and Earthport, he said, promotes “the ability to move money globally and efficiently, and at scale, making it simple for originators, [treasury banks and service providers] to do all this through a single connection. If you are a treasury bank, you have to operate in both of those spaces,” he explained. “T

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

And the third, the one that nobody talks about is risk management. Risk management. And so that’s not just, we talk about risk management in terms of buying at a big discount to intrinsic value and then that gives you that capital sort of buffer. That’s a long time. It’s a long time.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2018

“The risk for us is if the customer is not happy with the product and wants to return it, but if the supplier has gone bankrupt, we have to accept the return and give the money back,” he explained. Payments are, of course, a huge part of the risk management strategy. Payment Shifts.

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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 20, 2022

And then we did a buyback, but we got paid in quetzales, which was the local currency. And I think that’s what made us bottoms-up a bit more constructive on emerging market currencies once the dollar peaked. Treasury, the OFAC restrictions. I had to go to Guatemala, I had to present it. RITHOLTZ: DXY being?

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk. 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.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

And, and here you referenced this in the book, but their business model now with Fed funds over 5%, you could get Riskless treasuries just about 5%. Put it in Riskless Treasuries. It seemed like not riskless, but now Yeah, you just put it in treasuries, earn 5%. A closed shop that was a currency exchange.

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