Entries by treasuryXL

Trading places – is big tech the real threat to banks?

| 01-11-2017 | Lionel Pavey |   Reading yesterday’s article about Fintech banks reminded me that, in the last few weeks, I had seen articles in the news about the growing interest in providing banking services by so-called Bigtech companies. Bigtech is defined as established “platform” players such as Amazon, Google, Alibaba and Paypal. These […]

Uitgelicht: ECB strenger voor fintechbanken

| 31-10-2017 | Peter Schuitmaker |   Recentelijk lazen we een artikel over de verhoogde toezicht dat de ECB wil toepassen op Fintech-partijen die bancaire diensten aanbieden. (bron: FD ) De ECB schrijft in zijn eerder uitgebrachte gids Guide to assessments of fintech credit institution licence applications dat fintechs zorgen voor unieke risico’s in het financiële systeem. De […]

What do you want to know about Treasury?

| 30-10-2017 | treasuryXL | It has always been our mission to promote Treasury as a profession and to increase the awareness of Treasury within business. Currently there are more education choices for students to study and appreciate Treasury, but we still felt there was a gap – knowledge for anyone who was genuinely interested […]

FX-Risks Versus Technology

| 27-10-2017 | Treasurer Development | Minor Treasury @ Hogeschool Utrecht | Frans Boumans | Today’s blog has been written by Daphne Piereij and Martijn Mullié, who are 2 students studying for the minor Treasury Management at the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht. We welcome their contribution – it is good to see the […]

How to connect to your bank electronically

| 26-10-2017 | François de Witte | One of the main challenges in treasury is ensuring the connectivity with your banking partners. Currently corporates use the e-banking, or “electronic banking” channels. ‘Electronic banking’ can be defined as the way in which a company can transmit transactions and obtain reporting instructions to a bank remotely and electronically. […]

Foreign currency hedging, a protection of cash flow

| 25-10-2017 | Rob Beemster | Currency volatility is a well-known uncertain component of international business. In the pre-euro era one could suffer severely by currency movements of its European neighbours. Corporations, dealing within euro countries, have diminished the currency exposure. A historical overview of the euro versus the us dollar Looking back over the […]

GDPR and its effect on your business

| 24-10-2017 | treasuryXL | As if the finance industry is not already facing enough challenges swimming though the sea of regulatory acronyms – BASEL iii, EMIR, MIFID ii, SOX, KYC etc. – a new directive is due to come into force on the 25th May 2018, namely GDPR. GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is […]

Will the ECB taper off its Quantitative Easing programme?

| 23-10-2017 | Lionel Pavey | On the 26th October the ECB will have their next meeting. One of the main topics will be regarding the current QE programme and a possible announcement over its extension into 2018. Currently the ECB has, after 2 ½ years of QE, purchased more than EUR 2 trillion of […]