October 2009 7 Min Read
SWIFT Comes of Age: changing corporate experiences by Jonathan Ashton, Head of Channel Management & Integration Services, Global Transaction Banking, Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank has been one of the pioneers of SWIFT connectivity for corporates and has successfully...
October 2009 5 Min Read
A New Focus on Money Market Funds by Chris Cheetham, CEO Halbis, HSBC Over the past couple of years, as a result of the turmoil in financial markets, investors’ attitude towards cash as an asset class has gone through a fundamental change. Before the...
October 2009 11 Min Read
Microsoft Corporation: SWIFT Progress 2005-2009 by Helen Sanders, Editor Since 2006, we have been pleased to present an evolving case study of Microsoft Corporation illustrating how the implementation of SWIFT has developed. In this feature, we take a snapshot of progress...
October 2009 5 Min Read
Filling the Gaps: Money Market Funds by Mark Allen, Head of EMEA Cash Sales, Goldman Sachs Asset Management A year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, with all that has happened since, there is still speculation about the reasons behind the crisis and the potential...
October 2009 6 Min Read
Integration and Optimisation at Raymond James Financial by Elizabeth Eriksen, Assistant Vice President for Accounting Operations, Raymond James & Associates, Inc. Raymond James Financial, Inc. (Raymond James) was founded in 1962 and has been a public company since 1983,...
October 2009 5 Min Read
The Great Leap Forward: community co-operation for corporates in uncertain times by Elie Lasker, Head of Corporate Market, SWIFT Our conversations with corporate treasurers in recent months have highlighted three main concerns: firstly, global cash visibility. How much cash...
October 2009 8 Min Read
The Ox and the Frog – German Conglomerates in the Current Crisis by François Masquelier, Head of Corporate Finance and Treasury, RTL Group, and Honorary Chairman, EACT This article addresses the specific financial situation encountered by a...
October 2009 11 Min Read
What Matters Today #2: Efficiency by Linda McLaughlin-Moore, Regional Head of Product Management and Delivery – Asia Pacific, and Chris Winter, Region Product Executive, EMEA, J.P. Morgan Treasury Services In last month’s edition of TMI, J.P. Morgan introduced...
October 2009 7 Min Read
To Hedge or Not To Hedge – Raw material price management and added value from treasury by Wolfgang Frontzek, Director of Group Treasury/Corporate Finance, Wilo In recent years, commodities buyers have had to cope with extreme price increases and price...
October 2009 4 Min Read
Cash Pooling in CEE at Hoval by Michael Walser, Head of Treasury, Hoval Hoval is a family-owned company based in Liechtenstein, providing sophisticated traditional and renewable heating and ventilation technology. Although relatively small in size, the company has...
September 2009 3 Min Read
Optimising the Order-to-Cash Cycle at Vedior Asia Pacific Vedior Asia Pacific’s credit and collections processing is centralised in a shared service centre (SSC) in Sydney, Australia. This SSC handles the majority of accounts receivables activities for the...
September 2009 9 Min Read
Looking into the Crystal Ball: the future of global liquidity management by Swee Siong Lee, Global Head of Liquidity Management, Transaction Banking, Standard Chartered Bank The next few years look set to usher in major changes in the way in which corporations manage...
