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Why Big5 and not another personality assessment?

| 12-07-2019 | by Kendra Keydeniers | Our deeper dive into the Big 5 model continues with our next topic: Introduction Why a personality assessment in the Treasurer Test? Why Big5 and not another personality assessment? What do we see in the peer group? The traits measured A connection between traits and skills? Since the […]

Introduction of two Community Ambassadors: Francois and Marco

| 11-07-2019 | by Kendra Keydeniers | treasuryXL is happy to announce a close cooperation with François De Witte and Marco Lassche. As community ambassadors they will contribute to further raise the level of the treasury function, both for the inner circle: corporate treasurers, bankers & consultants, as well for the non-treasurers. François De Witte […]

Why is cash flow forecasting still an issue?

| 09-07-2019 | by treasuryXL | Kendra Keydeniers Cash forecasting is a vital part of the treasury role – and for all too many treasurers it’s a time consuming, difficult job where insufficient system support makes data management, analysis and reporting a time-consuming nightmare. However, the good news is that it doesn’t have to be that […]

Big tech vs Fintech vs Banks – in international payments

| 09-07-2019 | by Patrick Kunz | This title makes it sounds like it’s a fight. To be honest: it is! The market for international payments is huge and its lucrative. In a McKinsey report the 2018 market size for payment revenues was close to 2 Billion. Not strange everybody wants a slice of that. […]

Why Richard decided to explore the World of Treasury

| 08-07-2019 | by treasuryXL | Kendra Keydeniers The post-graduate Executive Treasury Management & Corporate Finance programme combines two finance disciplines: Treasury Management and Corporate Finance. These disciplines largely overlap and are inextricably connected. After a successful completion of all required modules, the title of Registered Treasurer (RT) is conferred by the Registered Treasurer foundation. […]

Why a personality assessment in the Treasurer Test?

| 05-07-2019 | by Kendra Keydeniers | Our deeper dive into the Big 5 model continues with our next topic: Introduction Why a personality assessment in the Treasurer Test? What do we see in the peer group? The traits measured A connection between traits and skills? The personality of the candidate you consider for your […]

Facebook and Libra: the new global currency?

| 04-07-2019 | Carlo de Meijer | treasuryXL Since Facebook announced to launch a new digital currency, the Libra, a complete media craze arose. The one blogger stumbled as it were over the other. And while the one group sings hosanna over this initiative (a salvation for the bankless), warning signals come especially from the […]

Be careful what you wish for in crowdfunding

| 02-07-2019 | by Pieter de Kiewit | Over the last decade bankers have taken over from civil servants and public transport employees as the ones to complain about. Yours truly is also guilty and I still meet bankers who do not like to talk about their profession because they are annoyed about the bashing. […]

Why Mathieu decided to explore the World of Treasury

| 01-07-2019 | by treasuryXL | Kendra Keydeniers   I am taking you back to our recent post about the Treasury Management and Corporate Finance program at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. We mentioned to share some Register Treasurer (RT) graduate profiles to give you a better insight of treasurer types that are “RT material”. Let’s […]

Historisch lage rente nu vastleggen in 5 stappen

| 25-6-2019 | ICC Consultants | treasuryXL | Steeds meer bedrijven, investeerders en instellingen dekken hun renterisico’s (verder) in. De rentemarkten zijn hiervoor aantrekkelijk geprijsd. Gedurende de laatste twee kwartalen zijn de lange rentes zelfs nog iets verder gedaald en is de rentecurve verder vervlakt. Dit biedt mogelijkheden om ‘relatief goedkoop’ van een korte rente (lees […]