Treasury Matters

Financial insight from industry thought leader Joergen Jensen

Archive for the ‘cash management’ category

A new powerhouse in corporate Treasury Systems?

Reval has just acquired FXpress. Is this the birth of a new powerhouse in the corporate treasury systems space?
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Banks are unprepared for the Payment Service Directive

A survey done by Accenture and Finextra finds that the new Payment Service Directive (PSD), that will take effect in November, will cost each bank between 1 and 20 million – which is not very much in my view.
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Cheques are a dying breed

Why keep them artificially alive?
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Less cash to pay dividend

An interesting study conducted by the Georgia Tech Financial Analysis Lab suggests that we still haven’t seen the worst of the crisis.
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Suspect a problem? Follow the cash!

While reading about the Satyam fraud it still surprises me that it is so easy to cheat the auditors, even though they have a great tool right at hand for sniffing out problems: cash.
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From Cash Management to Working Capital in 2009

The credit crisis has focused minds on cash and liquidity forecasting - and not just the minds of the cash manager and treasurer; but also those of the CFO and CEO, as I have previously mentioned.
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The irrelevance of KPIs

Treasuries are all too rarely measured on their ability to help the company succeed. However, any CFOs wishing to measure their treasury department’s performance in 2009 will find that the credit crisis has made it even more difficult to achieve an accurate indication of success.

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