Risk Management

Responding to Economic Uncertainty by Kevin Boyd, Group Finance Director, Oxford Instruments plc In today’s uncertain climate, the balance has shifted more in favour of reducing working capital. Oxford Instruments has enjoyed a reputation for product innovation for...

TMS Transformation at STMicroelectronics by Giuseppe Amodio, Head of Financial Risk Management, STMicroelectronics The treasury activities of STMicroelectronics (ST) are centralised at its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland under the responsibility of the Corporate...

Liquidity Management – Plotting Progress in a Turbulent Market by Chrystal Pozin, Principal, Treasury Strategies The global credit crunch has forced companies to rebalance their liquidity portfolios and reevaluate cash management processes and providers. Corporate...

The Journey of Currency by Tim Shaw, Product Manager, IMX Software While the US is reported as fast becoming a cashless society, countries such as Great Britain, amongst others hit by today’s economic downturn, is seeing a significant increase in the use of cash. For...

A Methodology for Combating Currency Volatility Madness by Corey Edens, Chief Operating Officer, FiREapps In today’s global economy, the stakes for treasurers trying to protect the value of their organizations from foreign currency volatility have never been higher....

Regulating Transformational Branchless Banking: Mobile phones and other technology to increase access to finance by Tim Lyman, Senior Policy Adviser, CGAP, Mark Pickens, Microfinance Analyst, CGAP and David Porteous, Director, Bankable Frontier Associates When a cover story...

Focus on Liquidity to Win Gold by Maarten Mol, Chief Executive Officer, Fortis Transaction Banking, Fortis Bank The Olympics this year was an event marked by unprecedented achievement, records broken and medals won. On a personal level too, it has been an important summer...

Gathering Together and Scattering Abroad: A New Season in Banking by Helen Sanders, Editor For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. Edwin Teale I chose this quote before the collapse of Lehman Bros...

Thinking Global: Cash Management Centralisation at Pepe Jeans by Ricard Mas, Group Treasurer, Pepe Jeans When I joined Pepe Jeans in 2006, I found a vibrant and exciting company. It was facing many of the challenges associated with rapid corporate growth, such as the need...

SWIFTNet: A Channel for Change by Marie-Laurence Faure, Head of E-Channels, BNP Paribas Stéphane de la Fouchardiere, Head of SWIFT Business Development, BNP Paribas With Sibos this year attracting a record number of corporates, and an increasingly broad spectrum...

Leveraging Paperless Payments by Warren Keckeisen, Incentives Administration Director, Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. How does a company known globally for progressive, efficient products easily transform an inefficient, straining burden into a streamlined, automated...

Forget John Grisham and Jackie Collins – this month’s essential beach reading is all about investment. The period which we are in has frequently been referred to as a time of ‘economic uncertainty’ – no-one knows quite what’s...