Erik Smolders

Vice President, Deloitte Advisory

Articles

Searching for a Benchmark for Idle Cash Holdings

Having money sitting in bank accounts is often the expensive result of a company’s inability to forecast its cash flows. It is time for treasurers to think again about this ‘unproductive asset’ and look for ways to measure – and improve – treasury’s...

Ingram Micro and Bank Mendes Gans Co-Create Global Liquidity Backbone

Ingram Micro was looking to set up a global notional cash pool that would give treasury the flexibility to move funds between entities without intercompany loans. While the obvious solution may have been to centralise...

Thinking Outside the Box - Building a Global Multi-Currency Liquidity Management Backbone

Thinking Outside the Box – Building a Global Multi-Currency Liquidity Management Backbone    By Eleanor Hill, Editor With over $150m flowing into Ingram Micro subsidiaries across the world on a daily basis, having centralised visibility and control...