International Treasurer – September 2011

Should Treasury Stick to its Knitting?

After rising to the occasion during the crisis, should treasurers stay strategic or return to routine?

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• Updating Bank Risk Assessments 

  Assessing bank counterparty risk became a front-and-center topic for most treasurers in the wake of the Lehman collapse.

• Developing and Automating Treasury Metrics 

  Treasury organizations are always on the lookout for meaningful metrics that can quickly highlight how various treasury functions are performing. Here are a few.

• Peer Insight: LATMPG Spring 2011 Meeting 

  LatAm members met to discuss: 1) Brazil Deep Dive; 2) Cash and Exposure Forecasting and Tools; 3) Investment Policies and Options across the Region; and 4) Supply-Chain Finance and Business Models.

• Incorporating Commodity Risk in Hedging Programs 

  With FX and IR risk-management programs in place, treasurers are now turning their attention to managing commodity risk.

• Capital Markets: Solvency and the Cost of Capital 

  Solvency II regulation will change European insurers’ demand for different asset classes.

• Accounting and Regulation: FSB Gets Closer to Regulating the Shadows 

  The stability board streamlines its focus for regulating the shadow banking system.

• Treasury and Taxation: Repatriation Naysayers Have it Wrong 

  New study says critics of 2004’s HIA basing their views on wrong assumptions.

• Treasury Management: Those Stubborn Extremist Analysts 

  Study shows that equity analysts with out-of-consensus views often don’t change tack after being proven wrong.