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The Missing part of a Treasury Job Description

10-03-2020 | by Aastha Tomar Change is where Treasury is It’s difficult to ignore the word ‘sustainability’ when you are staying in the Netherlands, one of the leaders in sustainability, green finance and green bonds. This makes me wonder why everyone here talks about the word so much – Why is it absent from the […]

Remaining challenges of blockchain adoption and possible solutions

| 06-03-2020 | Carlo de Meijer | treasuryXL A growing number of companies have expressed their will to enter the blockchain arena. But after some number of years in which their focus was mainly on the benefits of blockchain in various areas, in terms of speed, costs, streamline operations and increased efficiency, their attention is […]

What’s Money Transfer Really About?

05-03-2020 | treasuryXL | XE | There are some situations where cash just won’t cut it. This is where we enter the wonderful world of money transfer. What is money transfer? It’s simple: it’s any form of payment that doesn’t involve cash. Money transfer comes in two forms: payment and transfer. When you use you debit card at […]

Are we entering an unprecedented economic situation?

| 28-02-2020 | treasuryXL | Pieter de Kiewit One of my favourite professional pastimes as a corporate treasury recruiter is digesting treasury technical content and bridging it to the “rest of the world”. Or see what is happening in the global news and projecting it on the field of corporate treasury. Currently there is a […]

Coronavirus Concerns See Equity Markets Suffer As Investors Head for Safe Havens

27-02-2020 | treasuryXL | XE | Coronavirus took the headlines again with the World Health Organisation warning that the world should prepare for a pandemic. The WHO stated it was too early to call the outbreak a pandemic but countries should be “in a phase of preparedness”. As with before, the Dollar and Swiss Franc […]

4 top Questions and Answers about Cash Management

| 25-2-2020 | by Kendra Keydeniers | Cash Management is one of the three primary disciplines of Corporate Treasury. (Risk Management and Corporate Finance are the other two.) Cash management is often described as monetary logistics management. This analogy works quite well. It is the discipline of Treasury that is devoted to the management of planned expenditures, so it is […]

Do Androids dream of Electric Spreadsheets? A Beginner’s Guide to AI in Treasury – Part I

| 24-02-2020 | treasuryXL | Cashforce | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, adapted to the movie Blade Runner in 1984 (yes, it’s that old), ponders the question whether technology can replace humanity in every aspect of life. Whether advanced technology could attain a comprehensive cognitive interpretation of dreaming is a philosophical conundrum that […]

Central bank digital currencies: towards a global approach

| 21-2-2020 | Carlo de Meijer | treasuryXL In one of my earlier blogs, I mentioned that Facebook’s efforts to launch its Libra cryptocurrency triggered intense debates over who would control money in the future. It has also forced Central Banks to think about and explore their own digital currency. According to recent research, at […]

Huge number of countries with an array of recession forecasts

20-02-2020 | treasuryXL | XE | Widespread weakness continues to weigh on a huge number of countries with an array of recession forecasts in the wake of global weakness due to pandemic, trade wars and trade deleveraging. Hong Kong having slipped into recession last year seems as if this is likely to be repeated in […]