Entries by treasuryXL

Uitgelicht: Pensioenfondsen moeten meer kasgeld aanhouden

| 15-11-2016 | Douwe Dijkstra, Erna Erkens |   Geld renderend wegzetten, voor pensioenfondsen lijkt het een ontzettend moeilijke opgave te zijn. René van de Kieft, voorzitter van pensioenuitvoerder MN stelt in het Financieele Dagblad dat het beter zou zijn voor pensioenfondsen om hun geld in kas te houden, anticiperend op een renteomslag. Van De […]

International direct debit, the one true advantage of SEPA

| 11-11-2016 | Jan Meulendijks | At its introduction time SEPA seemed to be just another (more complicated) payment method, more imposed by EU-regulations than a market requirement. For international for exporting companies however, there is a very interesting bonus in the form of SEPA’s possibilities in the field of direct debit. Foreign bank accounts […]

Could blockchain bring the EU Capital Market Union forward?

| 10-11-2016 | Carlo de Meijer | The European Commission recently launched an update report on the state of the Capital Markets Union (CMU) project. A comprehensive program of actions set out a year ago to put in place the building blocks for this CMU by 2019. Aim is to create deeper, and more integrated capital […]

Uitgelicht: Europese alternatieve financieringsmarkt groeit.

| 08-11-2016 | Jan de Kroon | Allan & Overy publiceerde recent een onderzoek waaruit bleek dat de Europese alternatieve financieringsmarkt blijft groeien (bron: FM.nl). Er wordt, volgens het onderzoek, door ondernemingen vaker over de grens gekeken wanneer het gaat om hun financieringsbehoeften. Ze kunnen dan ook kiezen uit meerdere financieringsbronnen. Expert Jan de Kroon […]

Experts talk about a DIY Approach to Corporate Borrowing

| 07-11-2016 | Douwe Dijkstra, Lionel Pavey |   Last week we came across an article about DIY Corporate Borrowing (gtnews.com). The author stated that: “A do-it-yourself (DIY) credit application using publicly available information can help corporations better understand how they are seen by lenders and cuts the risk of financing not being available when it’s […]

Blockchain: can it be of help for the agricultural industry?

| 03-11-2016 | Carlo de Meijer | During my economics study in the seventieth of last century (indeed a long time ago!) one of the courses I followed was agricultural economics. Recently I met a Canadian (with Dutch roots) from the agricultural business and we were talking about the opportunities for using blockchain technology in […]

Has the Bond bull market run out of steam?

| 02-11-2016 | Lionel Pavey | The yield on Dutch 10 year government bonds has increased sharply in the last month (October 2016) –from 0.02% at the start of the month to 0.28% at the end – bond prices of course move in the other direction and have gone down. Why? Possibility that the Federal […]

Will the Fed kill the EM currency rally, or will Trump?

| 01-11-2016 | Simon Knappstein |   The USD is strengthening again broadly across the range. As it had weakened since Q1 this year versus EM currencies, this trend now seems to have come to a halt. Obviously the expectation that the Fed will almost certainly raise interest rates in December is the major factor […]

Consider a treasury intern!

| 31-10-2016 | Pieter de Kiewit | As you might know, I play an active role in the development of the Minor Treasury Management at the Hogeschool Utrecht. This is the second year this program is organized for Bachelor students, not only from Utrecht but also schools from other parts of The Netherlands. I contribute […]