As Asia’s economies grow, a business intelligence firm warns that a growing disconnect between distant headquarters and local offices could lead to an increase in fraud as internal audit teams fail to meet the mark.
Getting the jump on FX movements is an artform: it involves finding common themes in disparate narratives and knitting them into real world scenarios. CT looks at some of the meatier metrics.
Treasurers pondering the next frontier in artificial intelligence might be looking the wrong way. In-house experiments at Microsoft, the technology behemoth, hint at a revolution.
Interest rates rising? Rivals snapping at your heels? The treasurer at one of the Philippines’ biggest petroleum companies tells CT how he poured oil on a troubled interest rate sea.
Instead of putting out fires when they arise, IBM has come up with an analytical tool that can help treasurers spot emerging risks. The company is already deploying it in the Philippines.
It’s one of the Asia Pacific’s fastest growing economies, but it can also be one of the more volatile. A central banker tells corporate treasurers what to watch out for in the Southeast Asian powerhouse.
According to the World Trade Organisation, it’s not just the US and China that are throwing up barricades. Treasurers need to be aware protectionism is on the rise everywhere.
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