In times of stress, get back to the cash management basics, think smart and don't forget to be good to your suppliers. We review all the expert advice from the street
While Dyson – the UK’s most famous vacuum-cleaner developer – has pinned its future on an Asia Pacific headquarters, it’s still not a given that its treasury operations will move to the Lion City
A new survey looks at the shape of things to come for corporate treasurers. Will you be driving smaller teams with greater responsibility, or automating yourself out of existence?
Even for the smallest company, currency risk is always present. The options for treasurers are manifold, but good hedging practice starts with knowing your business.
Precedent can count for a lot when it comes to treasury practice but just because it’s always been done that way doesn’t mean you can’t shake things up. We look at best practice in working capital management.
Some of the world’s top companies – also including Roche, GE and others – join Swift’s global payment initiative pilot. But whether other “Swift corporates” will be able to go GPI-active remains to be seen.
Automating workaday tasks costs money in the short term and saves money in the long term. Justifying the outlay to a sceptical board must be part of the treasurer’s skill set.
Increasingly, treasurers rely on internal and external systems, and large corporations have expensive, automated TMS. At its heart however is the idea that information means business.
Humans' ability to recognise patterns is limited, but artificial intelligence is proving its worth helping treasuries detect everything from fraud risk to compliance breaches.
This Visa/Corporate Treasurer roundtable drills down on corporate cash management behaviour, the problems of forecasting and how to relieve supplier payment bottlenecks