• Willem Dokkum, ING

    On your marks... go SEPA

    The year of implementation

    Start now. If there is one thing that you should take away from this guide, it is that you need to start planning your Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) migration now, if you haven’t already. The 1st February 2014 deadline is swiftly approaching and the months leading up to it will fly by. This is a major project that can take six to nine months or even a year to complete, depending on your organisation’s complexity. You can’t just flick a switch to make it happen – it requires careful planning.

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    Eurozone Crisis: A Treasurer’s Survival Guide

    What will the future hold for the Eurozone?

    The Eurozone is facing a crisis of unprecedented proportions. Greece, Ireland and Portugal have succumbed to bailouts, and European leaders are still scrambling to limit the contagion. Only one thing is certain: the euro must change drastically if it is to survive. But which direction will it take?

  • Treasury in the airline industry – not a smooth flight

    Strikes, terrorist threats, oil prices and erupting volcanoes: what an industry to be in. How do airline treasuries manage the cash (or lack of cash) and the financial risks. Treasury Today introduces a new series on managing treasury and the issues impacting treasurers in different industries.

  • Money market funds: an update

    Since going to print on our Corporate and Institutional Money Market Funds in Europe Best Practice Handbook, market conditions have deteriorated significantly. The banking landscape has changed and, with it, the market for short-term investment. Against such market turmoil, the story on money market funds is essentially positive but the sector has been challenged every step of the way. Our purpose here is to illuminate some of the relevant developments and, by doing so, highlight areas which investors should review carefully as part of their monitoring of events.

  • Money Market Funds update

    The quiet success story

    It was surprising not to see more fuss being made of the rise in money fund assets as the assets managed by members of IMMFA (the Institutional Money Market Funds Association) exceeded $100 billion earlier this year.

    This healthy growth in assets is only part of the story since some fund managers, such as Deutsche Bank and Mellon Bank owned Newton have left the Association. Altogether, funds aimed at corporate investors are well in excess of this figure, closer to $150 billion according to some industry estimates.