Why Should a CFO Care About AFP Codes?
Does everyone in the organization need to care about banking with providers who use AFP Service Codes? The simple answer, they should!
Is Your Bank AFP Accredited?
The winds of change are blowing and improving global bank billing.
AFP Service Codes: The General Ledger Chart of Accounts for Bank Fees
For more than 30 years, AFP Services Codes© have been recognized as the industry standard for identifying service charges that appear on account analysis statements and in responding to RFPs.
Do You Update Check Signatures Frequently?
Did you know it could save you significant programming costs to use a dummy signature?
Do You Know the Language of Bank Billing?
Speaking AFP service codes is like a foreign language, a language which updates every 5 years. How would you know what is or is not a bank billing violation?
KYC: the difficult road to simplification
With increasing global regulations on KYC, corporate treasurers are seeking some standardization and simplification in a process that also causes a great deal of administrative red-tape at banks in their efforts to comply with ever expanding regulatory requirements.
How to Become a Treasury ‘Superhero’
Redbridge’s Dan Gill and Greg Moore of AutoNation discuss how treasury professionals can become ‘treasury superheros’ by using software tools to help analyze and manage their bank service utilization and related bank fees across the globe.
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.
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.
How to Achieve Order in the Chaos of Bank Account Management
Bank account management has proven to be anything but simple primarily because many treasurers try to handle it in a piecemeal, tactical way instead of a holistic, strategic way.
Internal cash pooling or bank cash pooling?
In cash pooling, companies have a choice between using their bank partner or relying on the functionalities of their treasury management system (TMS) to manually (or semi-manually) manage their deposits. Redbridge reviews the advantages and disadvantages of each solution.
Required abilities to get control of your bank relationships and your cash
The relationships that corporate treasury maintains with banks to manage cash operations are some of the most complicated and often confusing in the entire business. Because of the general misunderstanding of the cash management services bought from banks and the lack of available time in most treasury organizations, many companies perform only a cursory review of the information banks provide on service usage and costs each month. In some parts of the world, banks are not yet even providing the details of the number of transactions completed or their cost which leaves geographical blind spots in many organizations. There are literally millions in errors taking place each month that go unnoticed and we simply have to do a better job. By most estimates these errors range from 5% to 10% of our total bank fee spend and that represents real money in most companies. So, what is there we can do?
Solving the puzzle of bank fees worldwide
Bridget Meyer, senior director of Redbridge Analytics, presents in the Demo Pit at EuroFinance’s International Treasury Management conference 2017.
“In Europe, the compensating side-business approach is on the decline”, Alexandre Bousquenaud, Senior Director, Treasury Advisory
Regulatory changes over the past ten years in checking, transfers, withdrawals and payments by card, together with the arrival of new, nonbank players, have significantly disrupted the classic banking business model for cash management services.
The BSB File Format and Global Availability
Over the last 12 months, Redbridge Debt and Treasury Advisory in conjunction with the CGI Workgroup 5 has conducted one of the most extensive surveys of BSB availability and scope of Global AFP code usage to date. While 16 known banks can currently produce the BSB file in a variety of countries, the survey reveals that there is still a long way to go for truly global coverage, even among the top global money center banks.