Entries by treasuryXL

Preparing the roll out of instant payment services: testing EBA’s RT1 platform

| 31-7-2017 | Jan Meulendijks | Finextra | Instant payment services become more popular. UniCredit is testing the EBA Clearing’s RT1 real-time platform and preparing for the roll out of this service to 30 banks in Italy and Germany. Last week Finextra published an article about this development. Our expert Jan Meulendijks gives his opinion about […]

The Digital Trade Chain: the blockchain train is rolling

| 28-7-2017 | Carlo de Meijer | Trade finance is increasingly becoming the number one use case for blockchain with the greatest potential to benefit from this technology. In previously blocks I already showed the accelerated activity in this area (see: Blockchain and Supply Chain Finance: the missing link May 7, 2017 and Blockchain: accelerated activity in […]

Forecasting the future by looking at the past

| 25-7-2017 | Lionel Pavey | A key role within the Treasury function is providing forecasts to the directors and management. The most obvious would be the cash flow forecast, but others would include foreign exchange prices, interest rates, commodities and energy. A forecasts is a tool that helps with planning for the uncertainty in the future, […]

Why does Apple issue a green bond? Spoiler alert: I do not know (yet)

24-7-2017 | Pieter de Kiewit | treasuryXL | Recently we had an “inner circle meeting” of treasuryXL in which we talk about developments and the direction we want to go. One of the invitees suggested we pay special attention to sustainable financing and related topics. I agree that this topic is quite prominent and this […]

Banken en Financiële Markten in Vogelvlucht – Boek en e-learning voor specialisten zonder financiële achtergrond

| 21-7-2017 | Michiel van den Broek |   Sinds de jaren ’80 heeft er een ongekende schaalvergroting plaatsgevonden in de financiële sector. Door deze schaalvergroting hebben banken zich ontwikkeld tot gigantische financiële supermarkten die een zeer uitgebreid aantal financiële diensten en producten aanbieden. Banken zijn tegenwoordig IT-bedrijven waar een grote groep specialisten werkt met […]

Mobile finally makes treasury easier

| 20-7-2017 | Udo Rademakers | On the 12th of May 2017, in GTnews an article has been placed regarding “Mobile finally makes treasury easier”. The article describes how Citibank is working to replace tokens with mobile phones and testing a multitude of options for finding a more convenient solution. I am used to work with […]

Stock exchanges and blockchain: open positions

| 18-7-2017 | Carlo de Meijer | Just like banks, a growing number of exchanges worldwide have already taken a serious look at the way they can leverage blockchain technology. This in order to ‘get rid of’ the existing time consuming, cost inefficient and risky operations. Ranging from Abu Dhabi to Toronto they are experimenting with […]

How to convince a manager as a treasurer

| 17-7-2017 | Theo Paardekooper | Management decisions are generally made based on analysis of data. However, this statement is far from correct. Arguments count, too. However, having the correct arguments does not mean that they are convincing. Being right is not the same as getting what you want. How is this possible? If you […]

Roadmap for unwinding derivatives

| 14-7-2017 | Roger Boxman | Banks offer proposals to smaller companies and housing associations to unwind interest rate swaps. The benefit for the banks is that this will reduce their risk weighted assets. Whether this offer is attractive or not depends on several issues. A short-list of advantages of unwinding to keep in mind […]