ETFs and Tokenised Funds: New Building Blocks of Treasury Investment?
In the December 2021 Calastone Connect Forum, experts considered how exchange traded funds and tokenised funds could, and potentially should, become part of every treasurer’s asset class armoury for managing liquidity. Ed Lopez, Chief Revenue Officer, Calastone; Patrick Kunz, Treasury, Finance & Risk Consultant and Interim Treasurer, Pecunia Treasury & Finance; and Natacha Blackman, Fixed […]
The Future of Cash Investing: A Candid Treasury Perspective
Treasury Think Tank Report An off-the-record Treasury Think Tank session earlier this year brought together an array of prominent and highly experienced treasurers from around the globe to discuss the current and future short-term investing landscape. Their views are strikingly candid and get right to the heart of what it means to be a treasury […]
Pandemic Powerhouses
TMI Corporate Recognition Award Winners 2020 In one of the toughest years for treasury in the past decade, treasury teams stepped up their innovation projects and rolled out digital best practices at speed. Here, we celebrate their successes. What a year 2020 was. As much as the financial crisis of 2007/8 had provided some insight […]
Staying Positive in a Negative World: How Does Your Cash Strategy Compare?
With responses gathered from 346 senior cash investors around the world, representing a combined cash balance of approximately USD 1 trillion, the latest J.P. Morgan Global Liquidity Investment PeerView survey provides a unique opportunity for corporate treasurers to compare their cash investment practices with those of their global counterparts, while offering worldwide and regional insight […]
Money Market Fund Makeover Innovation in Short-Term Investments
The doom-mongering around money market fund regulation has now stopped. Instead, talk has moved on to low interest rates, credit quality, digital investment channels, and the rise of environmental, social and governance investment criteria. Treasurers are also exploring different short-term investment options, such as separately managed accounts, and their curiosity is being piqued by a […]
The Return of Returns: Cash is Back
Central banks across the globe have varying approaches to monetary policy, but the general direction of travel, until recently, had been the same: one of tightening. When the shape of the yield curve changes, treasurers must be prepared to respond. Jim Fuell, Head of Global Liquidity Sales, International, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, explains how treasurers […]
Are Financial Crises Inevitable?
Ten years already. In the summer of 2017, we marked the sorry tenth anniversary of the last great financial crisis. We may well ask ourselves what form the next one will take and most of all when it will happen (if it happens). We might also ask whether we have learned from our mistakes and from […]