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SEPA – Making it to the finishing line in time
02 May 2013
With the time left for SEPA compliance now down to mere months, what is the state of SEPA readiness and what can be done to help those organisations still in the starting blocks to achieve compliance before the deadline? Watch this webinar to hear these issues being addressed, along with a customer case study – how British American Tobacco made it past the post.
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Facing up to the Challenges of Bank Counterparty Risk
18 April 2013
Risk has always been a major concern to treasurers, but in recent years bank counterparty risk has risen to the top of the list. In this complimentary webinar you will hear from S&P Capital IQ on potential best practices for identifying, analysing and monitoring your bank counterparty risk exposures.
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SEPA For Corporates: Six Must Do's to get SEPA Ready
20 Mar 2013
SEPA holds many opportunities for businesses willing to get ahead of the game. It can help you reduce transaction costs and improve customer service, but exploiting these benefits requires a robust and timely implementation plan. With less than a year to go until the SEPA deadline, it's crucial to start planning now. In this complimentary webinar, industry experts explain the important facts about SEPA and share best practice tips for smooth migration.
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Short-term Investment Strategies to Manage Global Cash and Financial Risk
13 Mar 2013
Today’s strategic treasurers understand that all short-term investment decisions are fundamentally about managing risk. In every case, the cash to be invested over the short term must be placed somewhere. Whatever the decision made, the treasurer will need to have a clear understanding of the fundamental objectives of investing: maintaining principal, ensuring liquidity, and maximising yield. The treasurer must also recognise that, just as there will be risks when choosing to invest in particular instruments, so there are risks in choosing (whether actively or passively) to keep cash wherever it happens to be. This webinar reviews the key policies, processes and technology to consider for managing short-term investing and minimising financial risk.
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Treasury Team Structures: What Are the Best Practices?
21 Feb 2013
There is no perfect answer to the question of what is the optimal structure for a corporate treasury. According to the recent Corporate Treasurers Council Guide on Global Treasury Structures, underwritten by Kyriba, US corporates are finding significantly more reasons to restructure their global treasury operations in order to operate effectively. Listen to this one-hour complimentary webinar where we discuss key factors that help determine the optimal structure and deployment for different treasury teams, as well as international growth, technology becoming more affordable, an increasingly more strategic role of treasurers and more.
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SWIFT for Corporate Treasury - Specific Business Applications & Best Practices
06 Feb 2013
This one-hour webinar focuses on best practices for using SWIFT for connecting with your banks worldwide. By now, most corporate treasurers know they have to use SWIFT to gain global cash visibility, increased cross-border bank connectivity, and to achieve greater efficiencies and manage risk. But, how do you get started and what should you do to achieve results faster and most efficiently? Experts from Fundtech, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Treasury Strategies share specific best practices. Ed Barrie, a veteran corporate treasury executive, pulls everything together and shows you how Itron went about actually implementing these best practices.
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Mobilising Global Cash: Optimising Cash Structures for Complete Visibility
21 Jan 2013
In today’s volatile and dynamic market environment, global treasury operations are consistently being challenged with optimising liquidity. Prudent departments have instituted fundamental cash visibility and forecasting structures to assist in addressing these challenges. For leading, multinational treasuries, deploying optimised cash mobilisation structures through notional or physical cash pools prove to be the key to unlock liquidity and mitigate risk. In this webinar, industry experts will discuss the recent AFP study on Mobilising Global Cash which details proven techniques around the ‘how-to’ of sweeping and notional pooling.
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Corporate-to-Bank Integration in the Cloud
17 Jan 2013
When Dow Corning Corporation (DCC) decided to upgrade its treasury technology to standardise, improve and enhance interactions with its banking partners, it still faced a challenge with corporate-to-bank integration. Learn about different connectivity options available to corporates and which approach DCC used to simplify connectivity with its banks around the globe. DCC will also discuss how it approached its banking relationship structure as part of its technology upgrade project and how it manages those relationships on an on-going basis.
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The Changing Environment of International Cash Management
13 December 2012
Treasurers face a variety of challenges in gaining visibility into, optimising the use of, and ultimately protecting cash. While managing cash domestically can be difficult enough, the task becomes significantly more complex when extending treasury's reach internationally as foreign currency risk, regulatory requirements, and new banking relationships must be balanced. In this webinar, Kyriba along with a special guest from AOL discuss the challenges corporate treasurers face today and the opportunities to optimise cash management processes internationally.
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FATCA: Solving Painful Complexity
30 November 2012
The complexity and cost of FATCA is painful for financial firms around the world. Our panel of experts discuss some approaches to solving the following issues; How do you meet requirements for Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) and non-IGA at the same time? What is the impact on updating legacy processes and systems to meet FATCA and what can be done to minimise the impact? What is the impact on customers and the customer experience, and how can this be addressed?
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The Art of Strategic Cash Forecasting - A Treasurer's Guide
24 October 2012
In this webinar, industry experts discuss the recent AFP study on Strategic Cash Forecasting which details proven techniques around the ‘how-to’ of forecasting. The speakers offer their opinions on the findings in the study while providing their own key insights into common objectives on forecasting cash positions, and also into the factors that are leading so many organisations to examine how they manage these risks, and the transformational changes they need to undertake.
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Seeking Investment Yield in a Low Yield Environment: Trade Finance
18 Sep 2012
The ability to finance trade remains critical to supporting global economic growth and sustainability and it may now fall to corporations and treasurers to do so. Trade finance has emerged as a unique and timely investment option for institutional investors. This webinar presents the factors driving change in trade finance generally, the available investment opportunities, and how these changes are creating unique investment options for investors.
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The Challenges of Monitoring Supply Chain Risk and Performance
18 July 2012
The future of effective supply chain management requires more than knowing who your suppliers are. Being able to assess your exposure and monitor your risk is paramount. Listen to this webinar for a discussion on the evolution of supply chain, pain points and the risk-sharing proposition.
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