Entries by treasuryXL

Buddy, can you spare a virtual dime?

| 6-3-2017 | Lionel Pavey |   In januari 2017 was in Het Financieele Dagblad in een artikel te lezen, dat mobiele telefoonprovider Bharti Airtel India’s eerste betalingsbank had gelanceerd, de Airtel Payments Bank. Dit is een nieuwe banksoort, waarvoor de Indiase centrale bank RBI in 2014 richtlijnen uitgaf. Wij vroegen onze expert Lionel Pavey […]

Fintech Recruitment Considerations

| 3-3-2017 | Pieter de Kiewit | Last week one of my clients started an unscheduled brainstorm session about recruitment for Fintech companies. We ended up having quite an interesting discussion. Within Treasurer Search we see an increase in assignments in this market, both permanent as well as interim. I would like to share the […]

Blockchain: Accelerated activity in trade finance

| 24-2-2017 | Carlo de Meijer | Last year August I wrote a LinkedIn blog on blockchain and trade finance. There I described the various pilots and plans for using this technology in the trade space. In that month, the bank-backed R3CEV blockchain consortium revealed that 15 of its member banks had participated in a trial involving […]

Managing treasury risk: Credit Risk (Part V)

| 23-2-2017 | Lionel Pavey |   There are lots of discussions concerning risk, but let us start by trying to define what we mean by risk. In my fifth article I will focus on credit risk. Many companies have very significant credit needs and this needs to be formally addressed with a credit analysis […]

What’s FinTech and how does it change the financial world?

| 22-2-2017 | Arnoud Doornbos | FinTech is a term that is becoming popular in the financial world. Only one third of the financial experts know what this means  and understands  what consequences it has for their business. How this innovation is currently changing the ecosystem of money, is still relatively unknown. FinTech is a […]

Uniform Herstelkader Rentederivaten MKB

| 21-2-2017 | Simon Knappstein |   Op 19 december van vorig jaar is het definitieve herstelkader rentederivaten gepubliceerd door de Derivatencommissie. Dit is een update van de versie die al in juli van 2016 werd gepubliceerd. De update is inhoudelijk onveranderd maar bevat een aantal toelichtingen en bijlagen om de werking van het herstelkader […]

Flex Treasurer: The life of an interim treasurer

| 16-2-2017 | Patrick Kunz |   An interim treasurer is just like a normal treasurer. The difference is that he has a flexible contract and changes “jobs” more often. Assignments can be to replace the existing treasurer due to leave or sickness. This means that he gets to take an operational role and be part […]

Treasury and regulations: A changing environment

| 15-2-2017 | Theo Paardekoper | Companies need to comply to their regulatory framework in their industry. For the treasury department  a regulatory framework is applicable which is basically linked to the financial industry and not linked to the industry of the company. Because regulations in the financial industry are changing it is important for […]