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 […]

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 […]

Voorlichtingsavond PGO Treasury Management & Corporate Finance

| 20-10-2017 | Robert Dekker | Op donderdag 9 november 2017 vindt de voorlichtingsavond voor de Postgraduate opleidingen, waaronder de opleiding Treasury Management & Corporate Finance, van de School of Business and Economics van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam plaats. Deze voorlichtingsavond is bedoeld voor geïnteresseerden die per 1 februari 2018 willen instromen. Dat kan, omdat wij de opleiding […]

Alternative Payment Providers

| 18-10-2017 | treasuryXL | The Paypers | Traditionally, banks provided the infrastructure to enable payments to take place. Nowadays, there are many different third party online payment services that compete directly with the bank models. We came across an interesting article detailing the rise of a mobile payment platform with a large customer base […]