Capital Markets June 24, 2019

Attention ESG Skeptics: You Don’t Have to Sacrifice Returns

Analyzing ESG factors with credit fundamentals for competitive returns.

“How much of our cash is invested in sustainable investments?” If you’re responsible for investing your company’s cash balances and haven’t already been asked that question by a C-suite executive or board member, get ready—you will. 

Treasury Technology June 21, 2019

Treasurers Behind in Adopting Tech

Treasury Alliance: treasury lags on tech front and misses opportunities.

Corporate treasurers are falling behind on the technology adoption front while their colleagues in the business units are bounding ahead with innovative technologies, according to a survey by consultancy Treasury Alliance Group. This has left treasury organizations mostly adopting tech in small steps.
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Risk Management June 19, 2019

Risk Without Reward?

Corporate risk appetites are incomplete without considering upsides.

Generating a formal corporate risk appetite and imbuing it throughout the company is critical for executives to make good business decisions. Nonetheless, a complete risk appetite must also include the potential rewards. Read More

Cash & Working Capital June 18, 2019

Reassessing Risk as the Fed Contemplates Rate Cuts

Many—but not all—corporate cash investors remain risk adverse amid shifts in interest rate outlook, repatriation flows.

Investing short-duration cash isn’t getting any easier. The Federal Reserve, amid an inverted Treasury yield curve, looks poised to cut rates, a pivot that comes as some corporate cash investors try to put excess cash to work following post-tax reform repatriation while others... Read More

Global Treasury June 17, 2019

Pushing Trade Finance Beyond Your Top Partners

Bank initiative could reduce financial constraints in corporate supply chains.

Large multinational companies may soon find their commercial customers and suppliers flush with more capital, potentially increasing demand for their products and reducing payment frictions. This is the result of global banks pursuing an initiative to draw more capital-markets investors into the trade-finance market. Read More

Treasury Technology June 14, 2019

What to Know Before Jumping on the Bot Bandwagon

Asia finance professionals discuss lessons learned in employing robotic process automation. 

Finance teams at multinational corporations have, by now, heard a lot about the benefits of using robotic process automation (RPA) technology to help handle high-volume, repetitive tasks as the business pursues growth and scale.

Risk Management June 12, 2019

Standards Org Boosts ESG Understanding

ESG concerns much more prominent for corporates; COSO guidance supports new ESG risk framework.

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks have gained prominence in recent years, raising the likelihood that boards of directors will ask how they fit into their companies’ enterprise risk management initiatives. But help on that front arrived late last year in a new guidance from the Committee of Sponsoring... Read More