Digital Transformation in Treasury
Card acquiring – innovation without increased costs
Pressure from the sales, marketing, as well as digitization, teams to adopt innovative payment solutions and access multiple card networks must make sense from a financial as well as security standpoint. An interview with our experts Mélina Le Sauze and Anthony Schulhof.
Survey – Seven out of ten finance departments to launch cost savings plans
Redbridge’s latest survey of 104 European companies reveals the first lessons of the crisis and the current priorities for treasurers: forecasts, working capital and cash pooling. Any planned savings will need to be mindful of preserving bank relationships.
COVID-19: Treasury Management System Providers Support Corporate Treasuries
Global TMS providers are stepping up to help treasurers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s how.
French National Bank (FNB) manages the Negotiable European Commercial Paper (NEU CP) crisis by listening to its stakeholders.
Florence Saliba, Chairwoman of the French Treasurer Association (AFTE) and François Gouesnard, Vice-Chairman of the Finance Commission, provide a positive assessment on the FNB’s action aimed at restoring confidence in the NEU CP market – Interview
The State’s PRÊT GARANTIE D’ETAT (PGE) is a financing and not an automatic right!
Put in place by the French Government to offer companies easy access to COVID-19 special financial support, the banks are not entirely comfortable with some of the terms and conditions of the measures. They are exercising their normal due diligence, as they would do with any credit applications. Treasury departments should therefore not spend time thinking about the optimal financing structure in the context of more or less rapid economic recovery.
Large caps stay out of the special financing arrangements put in place by governments
Europe’s largest companies are staying away from the special financing arrangements put in place by governments . In France, even before the presentation of the state-guaranteed loan (Prêt Garanti par l’Etat – “PGE”), several large caps had already secured additional liquidity to get them through the first few months of the crisis, such as Airbus, which announced the signing of a €15 billion syndicated loan on 23 March. Other such raising included Schlumberger with a €1.5bn Revolving Credit Facility and Diageo, who launched and priced a USD $2.5bn bond offering.
Branch Depository Options Trending Today
Deposit methods in today’s cash and coin environment
What Can You Count On? Bank and Payment Card Fees
Amid the chaos of COVID-19, layoffs, furloughs and businesses closing, there are still things businesses cannot avoid, like payment card brand fees, and the need to manage both the current fees and the constant changes put out by the card brands.
The digitization of trade is increasing in velocity
How quickly will companies take advantage of the advances in trade related technology that affords them reductions in costs as well as improvements in risk mitigation?
Renewing Your Credit Facility? COVID-19 Update
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing companies to explore how they can optimize their bank financing while managing the current uncertain environment.
Commodity Traders – What is the Threshold for Liquidity Source Diversification?
Humanity is shaped by its crisis. So is trading, as old as humanity as well. In order to survive, trading will continuously have to adapt to demand and supply shocks, logistical challenges, increase in risk premia and last but not least liquidity available. In fact liquidity has always been and will continue to be the number one risk consideration for any trading company.
Rating agencies – between speed and precipitation
In the crisis, the credit rating agencies have not all reacted in the same way. An analysis of the three main rating agencies actions since the end of February, shows that Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has been much quicker than Moody’s and Fitch in revising down their views – REPORT
Payment Card Best Practices
The merchant card industry is changing, so much so that even the word ‘merchant’ has become out-of-date. In recent years, the industry standard verbiage changed from merchant cards to payment cards to be all-inclusive of the complexities of the payment card world. Examples of payment cards can include traditional credit and debit cards, but also gift cards (closed loop), pre-paid cards (open loop), ghost, and virtual cards.
An Action Plan for Bank Fee Analysis
It may be the understatement of the year, but…things have changed. With the Federal Reserve slashing rates to near zero, our entire thought process around treasury has changed.