2020: The Year In Review
Negotiating a Favorable Credit Facility and Improving Credit Rating Quality
Understand your risk positioning to secure the best investment terms
“SWIFT gpi puts healthy pressure on the banks” Olivier Grandval, Louis Dreyfus Company
Olivier Grandval, treasurer at Louis Dreyfus Company, discusses how SWIFT gpi simplifies the daily work of the treasury team of his group that trades in agricultural commodities. For him, improving the traceability of cross-border payments opens up new opportunities for bank relations and cash flow forecasts.
Bankers, If You Can’t Produce a BSB, You Are Late
We have reached the tipping point in bank billing transparency globally, and it is exciting. The vision of creating a global standard for bank fee reporting started with a few individuals willing to do the work, a few large corporations willing to apply pressure, and a few global banks willing to be leaders in providing transparency to their customers.
Is the Fate of Your ECR Truly Tied to the Fed Funds Rate?
When we think about how bank fees are being treated in the U.S., there is something very unique that, regardless of your company’s size, industry or banking partners, if you operate in this country, your bank fees will inevitably be tied to your operating balances through an earnings credit rate (ECR) mechanism.
Top 3 Year-end Checklist Items for Bank Fee Analysis
By the end of the calendar year (and for many of us, fiscal year-end), we have a growing mountain of tasks to complete – close the books, conduct our annual budgeting exercise, get ready for the audit, and review upcoming changes to regulations that may affect our cash.
Treasury’s Big Data: How to Transform Account Analysis Statements Into Analytics
Key takeaways from our educational session at AFP 2019
Cracking the Whip on Bank Financing
Practical challenges faced by CFOs and treasurers today
Fall 2019 Card Brand Changes
Get up to speed on the fall 2019 card brand updates and how they may affect your business
European Trade Receivables Securitization Is Now More Complex
A brief Q&A with Thierry Sebton of Accola
Single-B Issuers Under Scrutiny by Rating Agencies
While credit rating agencies have not yet changed their central scenarios for credit default rates, they appear to be growing more nervous in the face of changes in the economic cycle and the resurgence of volatility against a backdrop of greater geopolitical uncertainty.
Visa and Mastercard to Lower Interregional Interchange Fees October 19, 2019
Following pressure from the European Commission, Visa and Mastercard pledged last year to cut their European interregional multilateral interchange fees by at least 40%. The two international networks will honor their commitment on October 19, 2019, according to banking sources.
Redbridge to Exhibit and Present at New York Cash Exchange
In many treasury organizations, bank fees are simply left unchecked. We all know we should be monitoring them, but most of us run out of time or energy before we can tackle the problem. We have found time and time again that with the right abilities, a treasury professional can have a great impact on their company’s bank fees and get themselves recognized as a treasury ‘superhero’ in the process.