The Key to Smarter Liquidity Management
Discover how the convergence of spend and liquidity can help finance, procurement, and treasury be smarter together. Dennis Baljeu (Vanderlande), Bas Rebel, Johannes Berghoff (Coupa), and TMI’s Eleanor Hill identify key best practices around taking control of your cash and driving agility, through greater transparency and control of your financial data – across spend, payments, […]
Treasury and Tax: New Best Friends Forever?
With the recent publication of new guidelines on transfer pricing for financial transactions, two experts examine the impact these will have on multinationals, their treasurers, and tax auditors. For decades the business case for treasury has included the management of cash as a corporate asset. In-house banks are designed to use cash when it becomes […]
Cash Pooling: Well Worth the Cost of Compliance
Independent treasury consultant Bas Rebel picks his way through the ‘minefield’ of fiscal and regulatory reforms surrounding cash pooling and examines the advantages and challenges to prove the overall benefit case of this method of liquidity management is still strong. Cash pooling is in the crosshairs of regulators and tax authorities. This scrutiny increases the […]
The Strategic Treasurer: Custodian of Cash Flow and Financial Risk
The Strategic Treasurer: Custodian of Cash Flow and Financial Risk By Bas Rebel, Senior Director, PwC The Netherlands An evergreen theme for publications about treasury is how the role of the corporate treasurer has become increasingly strategic and has grown in relative importance within organisations. However, whilst it is undoubtedly true that some people […]
Notional Pooling: That Other Day May Not Be Far Away
Notional Pooling: That Other Day May Not Be Far Away by Bas Rebel, Senior Director of Corporate Treasury Solutions, PwC The Netherlands, Philippe Förster, Director, PwC Luxembourg and Claire Howells, PwC UK Since our article on notional pooling in January 2016, ‘Die Another Day’, the debate has continued to accelerate. In that article, we highlighted […]
Die Another Day – The Future of Notional Pooling
Die Another Day – The Future of Notional Pooling by Bas Rebel, Senior Director of Corporate Treasury Solutions, PwC The Netherlands and Philippe Förster, Director, PwC Luxembourg Notional pooling is a popular cash management instrument. But over the past few months the debate about its future has intensified. Some believe it will disappear in the […]
PwC’s Global Corporate Treasury Survey 2014
PwC’s Global Corporate Treasury Survey 2014 The Evolution of Treasury: From Department to Enterprise-Wide Process by Bas Rebel, Senior Director, Corporate Treasury Solutions, PwC Netherlands and Nick Axton, Senior Manager, Corporate Treasury Solutions, PwC UK The role and responsibilities of treasury beyond the departmental wall have been transformed since the financial crisis. The crisis gave […]
SEPA 2.0: Realising the Potential
SEPA 2.0: Realising the Potential by Bas Rebel, Emiel Kuiken and Didier Vandenhaute, PwC Corporate Treasury Solutions The last weeks before the SEPA deadline of 1 February 2014 have proved, for many a project manager, to be hectic. Now that that the European Commission has proposed an additional transition period of six months till 1 […]
SEPA Deadline: Actions to Take Right Now
SEPA Deadline: Actions to Take Right Now With the 1 February 2014 deadline for compliance with SEPA only five months away, and following clarifications from the European Payments Council (EPC) that there will be no postponement and no ‘plan B’, some companies are having to rethink their approach to SEPA compliance. PwC surveyed 150 companies […]