Cash Management and Treasury Specialist Owner of Lion Cash Flow
An honest and innovative cash manager/treasurer with proven expertise in public and corporate financing, investor and bank relationships, financial analysis, cash management, foreign exchange, import and export. Solid background in development and implementation of strategies aimed at business efficiency and transparency. Comprehensive understanding of optimizing work flow processes to deliver improvements whilst collaborating with multiple departments within a company.
What will be the new “normal” for interest rates?
| 23-01-2018 | Lionel Pavey | Despite interest rate being very low for the last few years, general consensus is that rates will eventually rise – rates will become more normal. Rates are being held down by the actions of central banks with their quantitative easing. As QE is scaled backed and stopped this should […]
MiFiD II – 10 days old: Status Report
| 16-01-2018 | Lionel Pavey | MiFiD II is a regulation leading to reform in the European financial industry. This is an update to the original MiFiD regulation which started in 2007. It is expected to offer greater protection to investors and to increase transparency within the markets. There is a strong determination to move […]
Planning & Operations – a clear vision and purpose
| 15-01-2018 | treasuryXL | Treasury is a function which entails many different roles and responsibilities. The main task is to monitor and manage the cash within a company ensuring there is sufficient liquidity. This means monitoring all the cash flows – both inflow and outflow, together with the sources of the flows – current […]
Bitcoin – hype or reality?
| 08-01-2018 | Lionel Pavey | Having spent my working life in international finance, I have patiently listened to all the news about the Bitcoin over the last few years. During 2017 whilst the Bitcoin was on a spectacular price rise, my interest was awakened in this new phenomenon – is this the future? I […]
Credit ratings Healthcare- a Fitch seminar
| 19-12-2017 | Lionel Pavey | On 29th November treasuryXL attended a seminar organized by Fitch Ratings in Utrecht. It was a presentation by Fitch that explained the approach they had taken to determine credit ratings for 2 different entities within the Dutch healthcare industry: Stichting Elisabeth-Tweesteden Ziekenhuis in Tilburg – a hospital, and Stichting […]
Bitcoin – regulation and acceptance
| 06-12-2017 | Lionel Pavey | As the price of Bitcoin reaches ever higher – more than $11,000 at the moment – Governments are starting to look at what regulation needs to be put into place. Bitcoin has gained a reputation as the currency of choice for tax evaders and drug traders due to […]