PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

Yet for finance leaders of the enterprise, adoption of digital assets poses plenty of risks and challenges, not least of all the inability for their current treasury infrastructures to manage crypto in an integrated and compliant way. But it may not be smooth sailing ahead. We’re not just talking about the digitization of fiat,” he said. “As

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2019

The Treasury Department announced Wednesday (May 29) in a report to Congress that of the 21 major U.S. trading partners, only nine need further scrutiny because of their currency practices. Reuters noted that report in October didn’t name China or any trading partner as a currency manipulator. trade deficit.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

has been named general counsel to the Libra Association , a Geneva-based group founded by Facebook to launch the social media company’s digital currency, the organization announced Tuesday (May 19). Before his roles in Treasury, Werner was an attorney advisor in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, Libra said.

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CFO News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Recent meetings between senior officials of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and bank treasury executives have focused on market appetite for upcoming green bond sales even as the likelihood of liquidity-draining open-market auctions remain a concern for an anxious bond market.

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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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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin believes that Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency could pose as a national security threat. Mnuchin added that the Treasury has informed Facebook, as well as other cryptocurrency users, that they need to implement the same anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorism safeguards as other financial institutions.

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CS Lucas

JANUARY 20, 2021

Digital landscapes make dealing with payments, across multiple currencies and banking relationships easier to visualize and quicker to execute. In this webinar, CEO of CS Lucas, CS Tan – makes the case for Treasury Management Systems and showcases our new free TMS solution: CS Lucas Essentials. .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

In today’s top news, President Biden is expected to pick Michael Barr to head the OCC, and Janet Yellen, Biden’s pick for Treasury Secretary, is expected to take a hard stance toward crypto. Biden’s Treasury Pick Yellen Leary Of Crypto. Plus, the chief of the CFPB stepped down at Biden’s request. 20) at the request of U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Ghana is looking to drop its currency, the cedi, to join the new West African currency called “eco,” anticipated to replace the CFA franc as early as 2020, Reuters reported. Ghana is not part of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), which is largely comprised of former French colonies.

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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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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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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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Bank of America (BoA) may have hired a treasury product manager to work with Ripple. The job listing said that the treasury product manager must have previous experience in the payments sector, but that specific knowledge of cryptocurrency wasn’t necessary. It also recently joined R3’s Marco Polo blockchain trade platform last month.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 24, 2024

Government Bond/Bill Rates in 2023 I will start by looking at government bond rates across the world, with the emphasis on US treasuries, which suffered their worst year in history in 2022, down close to 20% for the year, as interest rates surged. The Fed Effect: Where's the beef? The Fed Effect: Where's the beef?

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CS Lucas

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Regular readers of Singapore’s leading daily business publication, The Business Times, will recall an article published earlier in July discussing survey results from PricewaterhouseCoopers’ inaugural Asian-focused treasury survey. We believe in doing the right things right, getting straight answers to complex financial questions.

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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. Currencies : A currency serves three functions.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

Treasury ordered public companies to return Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. China is the first country to launch a central bank digital currency (CBDC) or digital currency electronic payment (DCEP). Treasury Directs Public Firms To Return Small Business PPP Money. chains Starbucks, Subway and McDonald’s.

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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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

marketplace lending company Funding Options is teaming up with Caxton FX to introduce a prepaid multi-currency payment card for small businesses (SMBs). “SMBs could be exposed to significant sterling fluctuation,” said Western Union Senior Currency Strategist Nawaz Ali in a statement sent to PYMNTS in December.

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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

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

MARCH 6, 2020

We have deep dives into treasury application programming interfaces (APIs) and buy now, pay later (BNPL), as well as a report on Robinhood ’s trading app outage that occurred earlier this week. HSBC on the Next Phase of Treasury APIs (B2B API Tracker). Libra’s Stumbles, Coronavirus Gains Show Pitfalls of a ‘Global’ Currency.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The accelerated growth of USDC over the course of this year is the result of our active work to establish an open standard for fiat digital currency on the internet,” Puth said in a statement. Cuy Sheffield , head of the crypto at Visa, said this is the first business card that will make the balance of USDC available for spending.

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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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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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2018

Treasury’s financial crime unit is picking up enforcement of cryptocurrency platforms that don’t have strong internal mechanisms in place to prevent money laundering, according to a report in Reuters. Sigal Mandelker, the U.S. if they don’t have the proper safeguards in place. “The He noted that the U.S.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 9, 2023

There is a market-based estimate of inflation that comes from the US treasury market, where a comparison of yields on a treasury bond with that on a inflation-protected treasury bond of equivalent maturity provides a measure of expected inflation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Comptroller of the Currency said the agency will roll out a new framework for regulating marketplace lending. Curry said officials are studying whether marketplace lending and other related innovations, including digital currencies, raise certain risks and comply with existing laws.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

Treasury management firm BELLIN is expanding its offerings through a new partnership with Kantox , reports in bobsguide said this week. By teaming up with Kantox, we can now complement our TaaS [Treasury-as-a-Service] offering with FX management and hedging ,” said BELLIN Founder and CEO Martin Bellin in a statement.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2017

The relationship between bank and corporate customer is one that, for treasury managers, is a crucial one. In a world of cross-border transactions, geopolitical upheaval and currency volatility, corporates traditionally forge relationships with several banks. And visibility is crucial for centralized decision-making,” he said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

HSBC has added six foreign currencies supported by its commercial card products in Europe in support of corporates operating across borders in the region. In a press release sent to PYMNTS on Thursday (Aug.

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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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

comptroller of the currency on Monday to serve as the leading regulator of national banks. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, will oversee big banks, such as Bank of America , JPMorgan Chase & Co. Joseph Otting was sworn in as U.S. According to news from Reuters , Otting, a former banking executive and associate of U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

In a recent announcement within the treasury management space, EDI Gateway, a service provider specializing in SMBs and focused on enterprise resource planning and B2B applications, linked up with AZUR , a cloud-based treasury management firm, to offer the latter’s eFinancialSuite to vendors.

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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

MAY 2, 2016

Treasury has added five nations to its list of trading partners with foreign exchange policies that need to be monitored, according to reports on Saturday (April 30). China, Germany, Japan, Korea and Taiwan are each on the list due to their currency practices, according to reports.

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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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