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1 October 2009

What Matters Today #2: Efficiency by Linda McLaughlin-Moore, Regional Head of Product Management and Delivery – Asia Pacific, and Chris Winter, Region Product Executive, EMEA, J.P. Morgan Treasury Services In...

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1 October 2009

...the corporates themselves, but also for their banking partners. Fundamentally, for both new and well-established corporate users alike, SWIFT is delivering on, and exceeding corporates’ expectations, and enabling them to...

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1 October 2009

...risk, we see that treasurers are seeking more secure, diversified and liquid investments for their short-term cash flow. Money market funds (MMFs), specifically AAA-rated IMMFA (Institutional Money Market Funds Association)...

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1 October 2009

...from ‘benchmark plus’ pricing, to cost of funds based pricing, which is making it extremely difficult for treasuries to hedge their interest rate risks accurately. Unfortunately, for treasurers to gain...

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1 September 2009

...UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium and the United States. The next generation then witnessed the ‘offshoring’ effect, with many companies choosing to locate their SSCs on the Indian sub-continent and in...

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1 September 2009

...that it wished to draw above that level. The death of notional pooling: much exaggerated? The ‘Holy Grail’ of global liquidity management is nothing new. The concept is simple –...

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1 August 2009

...funds”, i.e. “treasury-style” funds, and those with a longer time span, investment-style” funds. Indeed, being considered “cash & cash equivalent” in the sense of IAS 7 is now necessary, but...

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1 August 2009

...light of market events, forecasting was, for the first time, superseded by liquidity management. However, as the previous article highlighted, forecasting and liquidity are closely interlinked, and to be effective...

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1 August 2009

...sides of the Atlantic, is responding positively to the challenge of regulation which it currently faces. In the US, the Investment Company Institute (ICI) – the trade body representing the...

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1 August 2009

...trailing behind, such as Belgium (19) Germany (25) Netherlands (26) and France (31). However, within this statistic, there are some hidden challenges which have been particularly apparent during the current...

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1 August 2009

...have averaged EUR52bn a year, with uptake dominated by financial institutions, corporates, sovereign wealth funds and pensions (source: iMoneyNet, 30 April 2009). During this period of growth, money market funds have...

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1 August 2009

...separate legal entity, distinct from the fund manager or sponsor. It has its own board of directors, who have a responsibility to act in the interests of the shareholders, i.e....