Entries by treasuryXL

Accenture and blockchain: the accent on security issues

| 13-11-2017 | Carlo de Meijer | My last blog was about IBM, triggered by a Juniper Research putting the company as the number one in the blockchain technology competition. One of the comments on this blog was that it looked like an IBM press release. But that is far beyond what is meant. I just […]

The size and shape of your treasury team

| 09-11-2017 | Pieter de Kiewit | Last week I received a call from one of my clients. Over the last years, I found several members for their team. Given the transition they are in, they were looking for benchmark information to shape their treasury team and make it future proof. This has kept me […]

Is uw organisatie klaar voor MiFID II? – E-learning uitgelicht

| 08-11-2017 | Financial Training Hub | Na de vorming van de euro is het toezicht op financiële instellingen en markten geïnternationaliseerd. Hierbij is het logisch om een ‘level playing field’ binnen de eurozone te realiseren om reguleringsarbitrage te voorkomen. De vorming van een level playing field voor het prudentieel toezicht op financiële instellingen vindt plaats […]

PSD2 – new opportunities but an issue of trust

| 07-11-2017 | Lionel Pavey | PSD2 (Payment Services Directive) is an extension on the existing PSD within the EU. The objective is to increase competition in the payments industry, whilst increasing access from non-bank firms. This should lead to standard payment formats, infrastructure and technical standards – at first glance an improvement for consumers. […]

Banken en Financiële Markten in Vogelvlucht – E-learning uitgelicht

| 02-11-2017 | Financial Training Hub | Zonder banken en financiële markten zou onze huidige economie en welvaart niet mogelijk zijn. En of u het nu leuk vindt of niet, banken waren en zijn onmisbaar voor onze moderne maatschappij. Iedereen doet, al dan niet bewust, dagelijks zaken met of via banken. Sinds de jaren ’80 heeft […]

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 […]