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May 2021 6 Min Read

Post-Brexit UK Finance Sector Changes: Should Treasurers Worry?

Concerns that the might of the UK’s financial sector would crumble post-Brexit seem not have been justified – so far. Can treasurers rest easy? Chris Biggs, Partner, Theta Global Advisors, offers his views on what the future holds. Love it or loathe it, Brexit has...

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May 2021 5 Min Read

Greece is the Word: Setting up a National Treasury Association

The newly established Hellenic Association of Treasurers (HAT) aims to support a vibrant community of Greek treasurers, both at home and abroad. Here, Alexandros Bellos, board member and Co-Founder of HAT, who is also Senior Treasury Manager at PVH Corporation, is...

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March 2021 5 Min Read

Strength and Support

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March 2021 14 Min Read

Regulatory Round-up with the EACT

The European financial regulatory environment is one of the most homogenised in the world and yet it still forces corporate treasurers to stay constantly alert for local nuances, revisions and wholesale changes. With the current European Parliament’s term running...

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March 2021 3 Min Read

From Ancient Rome to the Digital World

The second instalment of Standard Chartered’s Regulatory Readiness Series for Corporates explores the impact on treasury of the regulatory necessity to respond to immediate threat while delivering on long-term planning needs. Rome was not built in a day. As with...

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February 2021 5 Min Read

Advanced Financial Market Communication

Evidence From France The users of financial statements issued by French companies are able to analyse corporate performance and make better-informed decisions thanks to the higher level of disclosure required by the country’s financial markets supervisor. Could the...

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February 2021 3 Min Read

The New Reality of Treasury

The role of treasury, and the corporate treasurer, has been evolving over the past decade. And there’s no turning back – pandemic or no pandemic, ‘the new normal’ is here to stay. The business landscape is being shaped not just by Covid-19, but by digitisation,...

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January 2021 7 Min Read

Flying Start: Taming SITA’s Vast and Complex Payments Set-up

As a specialist in air transport communications and information technology, SITA is present in just about every country on the planet. With on-the-ground support for its airline and airport clients an essential part of...

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January 2021 3 Min Read

Time to Sleep, Perchance to Dream? Not in the World of Payments…

The pace of change in the payments space is not conducive to restful slumber. Standard Chartered’s Regulatory Readiness Series for Corporates aims to soothe the fevered treasury brow with some well-aimed explorations of its key themes. They say that a change is as...

Podcast

November 2020 13:25

E-commerce and Strong Customer Authentication: Treasury Imperatives

TMI’s Eleanor Hill invites Sara Savidge and Colm O’Monachain, Merchant Services, Wholesale Payments, J.P. Morgan to sit in the TreasuryCast hotseat and discuss how corporate treasurers are responding to the changing world of e-commerce. Our guests examine how treasurers can leverage payment...

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October 2020 3 Min Read

Negative Interest Rates and the Implications for Money Market Funds

The conditions now facing the global economy are unprecedented. For many countries, interest rates have been close to record lows since the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis. While some central banks had already taken the plunge into negative territory, the...

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October 2020 3 Min Read

Using POBO and COBO to Ease Reconciliation Pain Points

Every treasurer knows the frustration that arises from receiving a payment and not knowing to which customer or supplier it relates. Challenges in reconciliation can cause cash flow and supply chain delays and potentially damage business relationships when settled...