February 2008 7 Min Read
Peter Lohk Head of Cash Management Sales, Corporate and Institutional Banking, Fokus Bank Peter Lohk’s career has spanned Norsk Hydro, SEB and Fokus Bank over the past 16 years. While at Norsk Hydro, he gained experience not only in Group Treasury but also as...
February 2008 3 Min Read
Andy Long Co-President and Chief Financial Officer, Speedo International Only a relatively small proportion of professionals who have shaped the treasury activities in their organizations most effectively spend their whole careers in treasury. Indeed, many of those who...
February 2008 11 Min Read
Building a Competitive Finance Function: An Executive Roundtable CFOs and the finance organizations they head are under intense pressure from the capital markets and activist investors to keep pace with a rapidly changing global market — to go beyond merely...
February 2008 7 Min Read
A New Concern for Credit Rating Agencies by François Masquelier, RTL Group Head of Treasury, Corporate Finance & ERM, and Honorary Chairman EACT Management analysis is arguably one of the most qualitative and immeasurable among the many considerations of...
February 2008 12 Min Read
Corporate Treasurers’ Roundtable Using Finance & Accounting Shared Service Centers to Deliver Enterprise-Wide Value Introduction Martin Boyd. SunGard. Shared service centers (SSCs) have become a familiar concept to many multinational companies. Originally their...
January 2008 4 Min Read
Cash Management in Central & Eastern Europe by Günther Gall, Head of Transaction Services, RZB With consistent year-on-year growth this century exceeding that of many western economies, Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) has become a vital region for many...
January 2008 12 Min Read
Showers Today, Clearer Tomorrow Securitization in Central & Eastern Europe and CIS by Patrick Butler, Managing Board Member at Raiffeisen Zentralbank (RZB), Responsible for Treasury and Investment Banking Despite recent market turmoil, ‘plain vanilla’...
January 2008 7 Min Read
The subprime crisis is not just the epicentrer of an earthquake that occurred in the U.S., it is a crisis from which the aftershock, like a tsunami, quickly reached the shores of the European markets, and particularly the monetary fund markets, which had been...
January 2008 8 Min Read
Orbian’s Approach to Supply-Chain Finance by Andrew Notman, Group Treasurer, Orbian Orbian is the world’s leading provider of supply chain processing and finance solutions. It was launched in 1999 as a co-venture between Citibank and the German technology giant,...
January 2008 3 Min Read
Listening to Corporate Treasurers by Marilyn Spearing, Head of Trade Finance and Cash Management Corporates, Global Transaction Banking, Deutsche Bank and SWIFT Board Director and Chair of Corporate Access Group What are the major themes that are of importance to...
January 2008 9 Min Read
Coins behind the Cushions: Seeking Liquidity within the Enterprise Helen Sanders, Editor I’m sure most of us are absolutely sick of the terms ‘credit crunch’ or ‘credit crisis’, since they preface virtually ever financial article, so I will do...
January 2008 3 Min Read
Beyond the Euro:cross-currency pooling at Grupo Antolin by Luis Vega, CFO, Grupo Antolin Back in 2005, we implemented a cross-border pooling solution for Grupo Antolin’s operating companies in the eurozone with our primary bank ABN AMRO, enabling Group Treasury to...
