Payment Cards 101: The Ultimate Guide
US Private Placements: still a financing option primarily for investment grade borrowers
The U.S. Private Placement market saw record volumes last year, with investment grade deals continuing to dominate the market. While relatively spread differential and weak covenant packages keep traditional investors out of the non-investment grade market, some investors do have appetite for well-structured deals.
Excited to be returning to TEXPO!
The Dallas Sheraton | April 08-10, 2018 – Redbridge is excited to be presenting insights pertaining to Global Treasury and Cash Management, including optimization of bank cash management and payment card fees as well as our next generation of bank fee monitoring software, HawkeyeBSB.
Trends within the payment industry: there are benefits for merchants!
It is a perfect time for merchants to be asking important questions regarding their current payment card processing to make sure that they are maximizing the use of available and appropriate services at a competitive rate, says Dan Carter, associate director at Redbridge.
Redbridge hires new U.S. relationship manager to fuel expansion
Greg Bruns will service Texas and Midwestern companies in all their financing and treasury projects. His recruitment adds to Redbridge’s capacity to better assist U.S. companies. In addition to his experience and impressive resume, Greg has a passion for serving clients and is a wonderful cultural fit with our firm.
Redbridge has joined nexo standards association
Partner to the world’s leading corporations’ finance departments will help shape the payment ecosystem and interoperability.
“It is possible to offset the increase in scheme fees charged by major international networks,” Mélina Le Sauze, Redbridge
At the time of the biannual review of its network fee schedule, applied to acquiring banks, Visa Europe has introduced new elements and raised the rates on ecommerce transactions. For Mélina Le Sauze, Director at Redbridge, these changes strengthen the interest in optimizing the allocation of acquiring bank flows.
Redbridge Survey of Fortune 1000 Uncovers Funding Strategies
The vast majority of Fortune 100 companies, if not all, utilize the public markets for raising capital funding through alternative sources rather than utilizing only banks for raising needed capital. In the Fortune 101 to 929, the majority utilize banks as their capital funding sources, reveals a in-depth study of the debt structure of Fortune 1000 conducted by Redbridge.
Dan Carter Joins Redbridge to lead U.S. Payment Cards Solutions
Redbridge is pleased to announce the addition of Dan Carter as Associate to lead its U.S. Payment Card Solutions within Redbridge’s U.S. Treasury Advisory team. The recruitment is marking the extension and enhancement of the support and advice that Redbridge provides to global corporations around the world.
Mihai Andreoiu joins Redbridge Switzerland as Senior Director
Redbridge strengthens the value of its independent advice to international trading companies. Based in Geneva, Mihai Andreoiu is appointed as Senior Director, Head of Commodities Trading & Trade Finance sector. He will also be responsible for the development of Redbridge’s new Swiss office opened in September.
Acquisition financing: avoiding the costly bridge loan
Using the Commercial Paper market to cover the bridge financing of an acquisition can provide buyers with substantial savings. However, the strategy does require a bit of foresight and vigilance on a number of points, as Matthieu Guillot, senior director at Redbridge, explains.
Bank Services Billing – Newsletter
BSB Newsletter – A newsletter all about bank billing to corporations and other wholesale bank services users: standards, adoption of standards, billing practices and optimizing the billing experience.
“Ensuring an efficient global treasury organization requires dedicated management focus on numerous components”, Raphael Leprette, Senior Director, Redbridge
Raphael Leprette, senior director at Redbridge, discusses the opportunities arising from a merger of two treasury organizations. According to him, to optimize synergies, it is key to value the history, culture, experience and expertise of each team in the merger and encourage cross-fertilization of knowledge and sharing of expertise.
The full impact of new hedge accounting rules must be carefully determined
Last August, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued an update that simplifies accounting rules around hedge accounting. The update is effective for public companies in 2019 and private companies in 2020, but early adoption is permitted. With several options available in the implementation, the full impact of the new guideline must be carefully determined before setting an adoption date.
Holiday Greetings from everyone at Redbridge
A happy, healthy and prosperous 2018.
Threats to multi-currency notional cash pooling
Without waiting for the final terms of the new prudential treatment of notional cash pooling, several sponsor bank institutions have decided to position for clear withdrawal of their pooling services, says Solenn Le Lay, associate director at Redbridge.