Articles tagged with:
cash management

• Short-duration strategy: tailoring your cash portfolio for higher yields

  Record low central bank rates are driving down the available yields from money market instruments. Regulation is compounding matters by suppressing yields and potentially limiting the pool of investments available to corporate treasurers. With these structural changes in the financial industry reshaping best practice cash management, how can treasury professionals look to optimise their cash portfolio and achieve higher yields, while being mindful of risk? A short-duration strategy within a separately managed account could be the answer, according to BNY Mellon Asset Management.

  Be the first to comment | September 2012

• iTreasury for all, Down Under-style

  Corporate clients of ANZ will soon be accessing cash management services on the move as the bank ramps up the Q4 2012 roll-out of its new Transactive - Mobile solution. Although initially intended for use in Australia and New Zealand only, the bank says it plans to introduce the service in “key markets across Asia Pacific”.

  Be the first to comment | August 2012

• Calculating WACC – an art not a science

  The standard weighted average cost of capital (WACC) calculation that corporates use for budgeting analysis is increasingly thought of by some finance professionals as an “imperfect measure”, a recent survey has found.

  Be the first to comment | August 2012

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  CAA awards Barclays Pakistan cash management mandate

  The UK-based Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has awarded a Cash Management mandate to Barclays Bank Pakistan. The agreement covers the management of collections from non-scheduled flight customers across Pakistan. Shazad Dada, CEO of Barclays Bank Pakistan, says the bank worked closely with the client to understand its needs and has now introduced a new cash management system “which will provide greater payment efficiencies and improve flight turnaround times on all non-scheduled flights in and out of Pakistan”.

  Be the first to comment | August 2012

• Redback rises in Europe

  We all know that Hong Kong is one of China’s largest trading partners. What is less well-known is that a growing number (47%) of RMB transactions are initiated in Europe. In fact, according to SWIFT’s RMB Tracker – if you leave Hong Kong out of the equation – the value of payments between Europe and China has overtaken that between the Asia Pacific region and China.

  Be the first to comment | May 2012

• Time to exercise some liability management?

  European corporates are being presented with an opportunity. Low interest rates, strong investor demand and robust cash balances have combined to create an environment conducive towards debt reduction, or ‘liability management exercises’ as they are often known in the banking sector. But how long will such an opening last?

  Be the first to comment | April 2012

• Your operating model could be your worst enemy

  A business plan is important, but reviewing and adapting it is essential. Today, corporates are obliged to re-evaluate existing processes and shake off operational ‘norms’ in order to survive. But are they willing?

  Be the first to comment | April 2012

• The pain in Spain

  The storm clouds are gathering in the Eurozone again. This time Spain finds itself having to batten down the hatches. Its problems lie as much with the prospect of sluggish economic growth as they do with the onerous levels of national and private debt with which the country is laden. The markets worry that domestic demand is weak and the austerity measures introduced by the government have done little to lift the mood among consumers.

  Be the first to comment | April 2012

• Is RMB appreciation coming to an end?

  Murmurings by Chinese officials suggest that the appreciation of the national currency may be about to grind to a halt.

  Be the first to comment | March 2012

• Treasury management ten years on: same old, same old

  Ten years is a long time in treasury. What have been the major breakthroughs in the last decade? Try and think back to 2002. Companies were still recovering from the dot-com bubble; euro notes and coins had just been introduced; and acronyms such as CDS and CDO had yet to enter the lexicon of every treasury team, let alone the man on the street.

  Be the first to comment | March 2012