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.
PSD2 – new opportunities but an issue of trust
| 07-11-2017 | Lionel Pavey | PSD2 (Payment Services Directive) is an extension on the existing PSD within the EU. The objective is to increase competition in the payments industry, whilst increasing access from non-bank firms. This should lead to standard payment formats, infrastructure and technical standards – at first glance an improvement for consumers. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Treasurer – So what is it that you do exactly?
| 11-10-2017 | Lionel Pavey | A few weeks ago I took my daughter Charly to the Scouts on a Saturday morning – she goes every week and really enjoys it. I get a couple of hours to myself and normally do the weekend shopping in that time. 2 ½ hours later I went back […]
Brexit – hard or soft? What does it actually mean?
| 20-9-2017 | Lionel Pavey | Brexit is a fact, no news here. Discussions about how this Brexit is going to look like are an ongoing topic in the newspapers. Hard Brexit or soft Brexit – what does it actually mean for the UK and the European Union? What are the consequences of a hard […]
Building a cash flow forecast model
| 5-9-2017 | Lionel Pavey | No company can sort out its funding and investment requirements without having a cash flow forecast. This gives valuable insight into potential bottlenecks where there is a shortage of liquidity that needs to be addressed in order that the company can continue its day-to-day operations whilst optimizing its […]