April 2014 3 Min Read
MiFID II/MiFIR by Folker Trepte, Partner, PwC’s Corporate Treasury Solutions Group, Germany The updated rules for markets in financial instruments (MiFID II), agreed by the European Parliament and Council in January, will improve the capital markets function by...
March 2014 3 Min Read
Challenges with EMIR Reporting Solutions by Michiel Wijn, Senior Manager, Corporate Treasury Solutions, PwC (The Netherlands) and Erwin Bastianen, Senior Consultant, Corporate Treasury Solutions, PwC (The Netherlands) As of last month, companies within the EU are...
February 2014 5 Min Read
Adopting a Rule-Based Approach to Hedging by Roland Kern, Head of Treasury, Lufthansa Group Lufthansa Group is a complex, global business operating in an industry that has experienced considerable volatility in recent years. In this article, Roland Kern, Head of...
February 2014 13 Min Read
IFRS 9 Hedging – Was it Worth the Wait? (part two) by Clarette du Plooy, Director, Corporate Treasury Solutions, Kees-Jan de Vries, Director, Capital Markets and Accounting Advisory Services and Aliénor Fromont, Assistant Manager, Capital Markets and...
January 2014 12 Min Read
IFRS 9 Hedging – Was it Worth the Wait? by Clarette du Plooy, Director, Corporate Treasury Solutions and Kees-Jan de Vries, Director, Capital Markets and Accounting Advisory Services, PwC In November 2013, the IASB issued the long-awaited IFRS 9, ‘Financial...
November 2013 4 Min Read
Interference on the G20 Line? by François Masquelier, Head of Corporate Finance and Treasury, RTL Group, and Honorary Chairman of the European Association of Corporate Treasurers Over five years after the start of the crisis, there are still a large number of...
October 2013 6 Min Read
What’s Behind the Tobin or ‘Robin Hood’ Tax Rate? by Ricardo. J. Palomo, Financial Economics Professor and Dean of the Faculty of CC. Economics and Business of the CEU, San Pablo University, and DICTUM Academic Advisor James Tobin, winner of the 1981...
August 2013 3 Min Read
The TMI Tax Doctor: Withholding Tax In this issue of Tax Doctor we look at two questions around Withholding Tax. Firstly, a practical solution to reducing the administrative burden of making double tax treaty claims to reduce/relieve the need to withhold tax on...
August 2013 10 Min Read
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about EMIR Reporting (but were afraid to ask) by François Masquelier, Head of Corporate Finance and Treasury, RTL Group, and Honorary Chairman of the European Association of Corporate Treasurers Surely the problem of the...
April 2013 7 Min Read
IFRS 13: When Counterparty Risk Hits Your Bottom Line by François Masquelier, Head of Corporate Finance and Treasury, RTL Group, and Honorary Chairman of the European Association of Corporate Treasurers IFRS 13 ‘Fair Value Measurement’ came into...
March 2013 3 Min Read
IAS 39 and Hedge Accounting – For Better or For Worse? by François Masquelier, Head of Corporate Finance and Treasury, RTL Group, and Honorary Chairman of the European Association of Corporate Treasurers I was recently asked a simple but nevertheless...
January 2013 3 Min Read
The TMI Tax Doctor: Achieving Your Hedging Objectives Welcome to the third column of Tax Doctor. In this issue I look at two questions around the management of cash tax volatility as a result of hedging foreign exchange exposures. Q1: We are a UK headed group and our...
