September 2008 4 Min Read
Focus on Liquidity to Win Gold by Maarten Mol, Chief Executive Officer, Fortis Transaction Banking, Fortis Bank The Olympics this year was an event marked by unprecedented achievement, records broken and medals won. On a personal level too, it has been an important summer...
September 2008 12 Min Read
Gathering Together and Scattering Abroad: A New Season in Banking by Helen Sanders, Editor For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. Edwin Teale I chose this quote before the collapse of Lehman Bros...
September 2008 6 Min Read
Thinking Global: Cash Management Centralisation at Pepe Jeans by Ricard Mas, Group Treasurer, Pepe Jeans When I joined Pepe Jeans in 2006, I found a vibrant and exciting company. It was facing many of the challenges associated with rapid corporate growth, such as the need...
September 2008 6 Min Read
Achieving STP and Treasury Control at Tesco plc Straight Through Processing (STP) and optimal control over treasury processes is an objective of every corporate treasurer. In this interview, Helen Sanders, Editor, talks to Matthew Shelley, Treasury Operations Manager...
September 2008 7 Min Read
SWIFTNet: A Channel for Change by Marie-Laurence Faure, Head of E-Channels, BNP Paribas Stéphane de la Fouchardiere, Head of SWIFT Business Development, BNP Paribas With Sibos this year attracting a record number of corporates, and an increasingly broad spectrum...
July 2008 10 Min Read
Trends in Supply Chain Finance by Phillip Kerle, Chief Executive Officer, Demica Supply Chain Finance – A Background Although definitions of SCF tend to vary, the Aberdeen Group defines it as: “A combination of Trade Financing provided by a financial...
July 2008 10 Min Read
Brunei Darussalam: Asia’s Next Leading Location for Treasury Centres? by Rady Roswanddy Roslan Brunei Darussalam is located just off the island of Borneo in South East Asia. Situated between two Malaysian countries, Sabah and Sarawak (where Swinburne University...
July 2008 10 Min Read
Forget John Grisham and Jackie Collins – this month’s essential beach reading is all about investment. The period which we are in has frequently been referred to as a time of ‘economic uncertainty’ – no-one knows quite what’s...
July 2008 25 Min Read
Using Money Market Funds during Economic Instability ATEL/TMI Treasury Forum Sofitel, Luxembourg – 19 June 2008 RP Welcome to this special forum hosted by ATEL in which we are joined by some of the most significant players in corporate treasury today....
July 2008 15 Min Read
A Methodology for Adding Value to Business Unit Performance Through the Management of Financial Risk Variables by Nigel Grey, Treasury Manager, De Beers Group Companies today face a multiplicity of obstacles in their quest to achieve the returns on capital required by...
July 2008 8 Min Read
When Leverage Just Becomes Too Much by Willem Reitsma, Imperial Holdings, and Barry Martin, Debt Capital Markets team, Rand Merchant Bank Following a strategic decision taken by the Imperial Board during 2007, the integrated leasing and capital equipment division,...
July 2008 6 Min Read
Using Cash Flow Risk Modelling to Add Value: a case study by Professor Evan Gilbert, Associate Professor (Finance), Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town Using a Monte Carlo cash flow risk model for a bulk chemicals producer in South Africa we identified...
