Cash & Liquidity Management

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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...

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...

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...

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...

Risk Management in Money Markets: Are all cash funds created equal? by Alexander de Giorgio, CFA, Product Manager, Fixed Income, and David Rothon, Portfolio Manager, Northern Trust Before the events of August 2007, money market funds were generally perceived to be at the...

JPMorgan Asset Management Global Cash Management Survey 2007 The 2007 survey attracted corporate treasurers from around the world who provided constructive feedback. With such a wide and varied range of respondents, the survey, which has again been compiled in conjunction...

The Growing Importance of the Treasury Function by Richard Martin, Head of Payments and Cash Management, Barclays Commercial The Treasury function in any corporate has always been important in making sure that the business has sufficient liquidity to meet its obligations,...

January 28 2008 marked one of the most important dates in the history of the European Union. No, not your wife/husband’s birthday, your anniversary, or the day you were meant to take the dog to the vet – although of course, it could be these things too. Did you...

Delivering Value Through an Offshore Shared Services Group by James Axelby, Manager of Cash & Working Capital Management, Cable & Wireless The success of the SSG and its ability to satisfy the SLA was as much about the people as our systems and processes. Cable...

A Time to Get Back to Basics by Sarah Jones, Managing Director, JPMorgan Liquidity and Investment Products If there’s a silver lining to the current liquidity squeeze, it’s that today’s market turmoil gives companies an opportunity to get back to basics...

Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway: Treasury Technology in 2008 by Helen Sanders, Editor “We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology” – so said astronomer Carl Sagan....

Implementing a Business Support Centre at AVIS Group by Mark Kightley, Shared Services Director, AVIS Group AVIS Group started its move towards shared services when it opened its call centres in 2000, one each in Manchester and Barcelona, with customers based in the UK and...