Articles tagged with:
bank portals

  • A choice of women's shoes with legs in one pair

    Choosing the right FX relationship

    Offering the convenience of prices from a range of banks at the click of a button, it’s easy to understand why many corporates have grown fond of multi-bank FX portals. Can these FX ‘supermarkets’ really provide the value of a direct relationship with your bank though? In this article we ask whether it’s time to think again about your FX relationships, and discover that any re-evaluation should not be tied to price alone.

  • train station turnstiles

    Through the portal: MMFs and risk management

    For treasurers making short-term investments with surplus cash, money market funds (MMFs) have long been a place to find the security and liquidity they are looking for. But since the credit crisis, treasurers have had to closely examine the risk management consequences of trading MMFs. In turn, this has led some to re-evaluate how they interact with MMFs. The growth of independent multi-fund portals has ensured that fund providers’ online solutions now face serious competition. What differentiates these offerings, and what added-value should treasurers be looking for when selecting an MMF portal solution?

  • Global Liquidity EMEA

    J.P. Morgan Asset Management is one of the largest asset management firms in the world, with more than $1.29 trillion in global assets under management. J.P. Morgan Global Liquidity, the short-term investment division within J.P. Morgan Asset Management, is the largest manager of institutional money market funds in the world, with more than $403 billion in AUM and a global institutional market share of 16.4%. The J.P. Morgan Global Liquidity team provides knowledge, global resources and innovative solutions in a differentiated operating model with dedicated cash investment professionals in each region of the world serving multinational corporations and financial institutions.

  • Michael Spiegel, Head of Trade Finance and Cash Management Corporates, EMEA, Global Transaction Banking, Deutsche Bank

    Exploring new ways to interact with clients whilst maintaining high standards and functionality is a significant challenge for today’s transaction banks. We speak to Michael Spiegel, Head of Trade Finance and Cash Management Corporates, EMEA, Global Transaction Banking at Deutsche Bank about the evolution of client dialogue, new technologies and how they are shaping the industry. We also discuss Deutsche Bank’s growth in EMEA, in particular in the Netherlands.

  • Banking portals advance rapidly; treasurers still not biting

    The banks have a lot to say about their portals – but are they offering something new? This month, Treasury Today reviews recent developments in the portals market and considers how this area is likely to evolve in the future.

  • Can regional banks offer the ‘best of both worlds’ in cash management?

    Before the financial crisis, a single, international banking provider was the holy grail of cash management centralisation. But since the crisis, companies are wary of putting all their eggs in one basket and diversification of banks has become the norm. The result is that cash management for large MNCs is often being split with, or in a rare number of cases, turned over to, regional banks. With their crisis-proof balance sheets, the regional banks, like Standard Chartered, DBS Bank, RZB, or Santander among others, have been taking cash management market share from big networking banks. The result has impacted the cash management environment and is changing the way banks and corporates do business.

  • Ivan Latanision Vice President of Product Management, Inttra

    Headquartered in New Jersey, INTTRA was founded in 2001 and provides the world’s largest multi-carrier e-commerce platform to the ocean shipping industry. The company has 260 employees worldwide and processes in the region of 10% of global containerised freight on an annual basis.

  • Bert Heylen, Group Treasurer, nyrstar

    A publicly-listed Belgian company, Nyrstar is a leading global multi-metals business and the world’s largest producer of zinc. The group reported revenues of over €2.4 billion in 2008 and has approximately 3,200 employees across four continents.

  • Commerzbank's TREASURY module

    Optimising liquidity has never been more crucial and in order to achieve this, treasurers need an accurate overview of the company’s cash. Commerzbank’s TREASURY module is a web-based solution designed to give treasurers clear visibility into the company’s bank accounts, together with cash management, reporting, administrative and planning functions facilitating effective liquidity management.