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18 April 2008

Corporate Banking in Germany – but which bank to bank on? by Georg Ehrhart, Partner, SLG Every two years Schwabe, Ley & Greiner (SLG), the leading treasury consulting company, conducts...

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18 April 2008

Journey into the Unknown – Internal auditing in the treasury function by Thomas Schräder, Partner, and Birger Wriedt, Senior Consultant, at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Düsseldorf The sub-prime market has clearly shown that...

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18 April 2008

...provide reliable guidance to investors, leading triple A money market fund providers, such as BlackRock, have joined forces within the Institutional Money Market Fund Association (IMMFA) to offer genuine ‘treasury...

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18 April 2008

...year. Too-high hopes for private consumption This means that all hopes are pinned on private consumption. We, too, believe that, unlike in 2007, real growth can reach 1% again. There...

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1 April 2008

...in the following categories: Annual trade compliance costs (including labour, software, fines, broker fees, etc.) as a percentage of total global trade costs (including compliance, logistics / forwarding, transportation, warehousing,...

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1 April 2008

...respondents in the US (94%), and the lowest proportion in Eastern Europe (43%). Conversely, 57% of Eastern European responses were on behalf of subsidiaries. Market capitalisation For the first time...

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1 April 2008

...documents. Others (usually the less important ones) are not even written. They remain verbal principles, generally accepted or transmitted, most often by management. This codification, often a consequence of SOX,...

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1 April 2008

...to: – Banks, formats, connectivity – Functional roll-out – Geographical roll-out However, in the early stages of our analysis, the perceived complexity and cost of implementation of a direct SWIFTNet...

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1 April 2008

...SEPA cannot really exist until then. In the purest sense of the term ‘SEPA’, this is true. Furthermore, companies with very high volumes of direct debits, such as utilities, telecoms,...

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1 April 2008

...of accounts or even banks, both cited by 90% of bank participants, can be realised. Other potential benefits cited by the banks (specifically Santander, Dresdner and Nordea) included: An increase...

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1 April 2008

...funds as they have a different risk profile from the safer ‘treasury style’ AAA funds. And most importantly, the risk appetite of investors and the objectives of the funds’ strategy...

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1 April 2008

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...