June 2008 8 Min Read
Money Market Funds: A liquid asset in volatile markets Normally, the summer is a time for relaxation and enjoyment… but not the summer of 2007!! The fallout and repercussions of the turmoil in financial markets continue, and as yet, there is no light at the end of the...
May 2008 11 Min Read
Rapid Returns in Receivables by Helen Sanders, Editor Those who remember the late 1980s and who also grew up in the United States (I can feel my audience diminishing as I write!) may remember Ken Hakuta, better known as ‘Dr Fad’, TV personality and inventor...
May 2008 5 Min Read
Implementing a Best Practice Treasury at Richemont by Vassilina Lapteva Walford, Group Treasury Projects Manager, Richemont The mission of Group Treasury is to find the right balance between the business strategy of the Group as a whole and the treasury strategy. Richemont...
May 2008 10 Min Read
E-invoicing 2008 Highlights of the European market description and analysis Innopay and Euro Banking Association The following article summarises the e-invoicing European market description and analysis presented by Innopay and the Euro Banking Association (EBA)....
May 2008 5 Min Read
GasTerra and Deutsche Bank: Finding New Cash Management Efficiencies by Jan Bruintjes, Manager Treasury, Tax & Insurance, GasTerra B.V. GasTerra’s cash management needs are focused around high value domestic and foreign payments. A Deutsche Bank solution sought...
April 2008 6 Min Read
Cost Savings, Audit Trail, Best Execution and STP at Lufthansa Group Treasury TMI discusses the impact of e-trading and STP within the treasury team with Roland Kern, Head of Treasury at Deutsche Lufthansa AG Roland Kern has been Head of Treasury of Lufthansa German...
April 2008 5 Min Read
Weathering the Storm Jonathan Curry, Head of Cash Management, EMEA and James Finch, Head of Cash Sales, EMEA, Barclays Global Investors Ltd The recent market turmoil has created new challenges for clients with large cash balances to manage. The origin of these events can be...
April 2008 6 Min Read
Choosing a Genuine Safe Haven for Your Cash An increased focus on security and liquidity Until the credit crunch of late summer 2007, markets were awash with cheap money. The resulting yield compression led risk to be significantly undervalued. Now as the fallout of the...
April 2008 7 Min Read
Würth’s Successful SEPA Start TMI talks to Claus Wild, Project Manager Introduction SAP-BCM, Würth, about his company’s implementation of SWIFT as an early adopter of SEPA accompanied by Commerzbank AG How was your payments business organized before...
April 2008 4 Min Read
The German Association of Corporate Treasurers by Ulrike Saitz, Operations Manager of the German Treasury Association From the beginning … The German Association of Corporate Treasurers (Verband Deutscher Treasurer e.V. or VDT) was founded in late 1997. The start-up...
April 2008 3 Min Read
The Ever-Changing World of Cash Management by Robin Page, Chief Executive, Treasury Management International Our Guide to Cash Management for 2008 deals with some of the most pressing topics that treasurers are currently having to deal with, and reveals a great deal of just...
April 2008 13 Min Read
SEPA Ready or Not? The 2008 TMI SEPA Survey by Helen Sanders, Editor On 28 January 2008, the SEPA Credit Transfer went live, with a number of the larger banks issuing press releases almost immediately emphasising not only their ‘SEPA Readiness’ but announcing...
