Treasury Aficionado, Recruitment Consultant and Owner of Treasurer Search. Together with his team, Pieter finds candidates for interim assignments and permanent positions in treasury, corporate finance, cash management and related positions. His market focus is the BeNeLux and Germany, his clients are mainly corporates, non-profit and consultancy organizations. Pieter holds an MSc. in Organizational Science and has over 25 years experience in international recruitment. In many ways he contributes to the Treasury Community by connecting people and companies. He supports educators, for example as a member of the management board of the RT programm of the Vrije Universiteit.
Cybersecurity & corporate treasury – not your favourite, but beware!
| 17-10-2017 | Pieter de Kiewit | We all have these topics we know are important but never get the highest priority. Until it is too late. Cybersecurity is one of them. Do you want to be the treasurer named in the newspapers? Finding examples and input on-line is not hard. Only this morning these […]
Entering the Financial Markets Data environment – Review Screen Market Event
| 12-10-2017 | Pieter de Kiewit | Last Tuesday Screen Consultants organized her annual event for the 25th time. An excellent opportunity to put the topic of financial market data on the treasuryXL agenda trough layman’s eyes. There are a few obvious reasons why a corporate treasurer should pay attention to market data: “Using old […]
Review European Fintech Awards 2017: diverse, inspiring and consumer oriented
| 02-10-2017 | Pieter de Kiewit | 27 September I visited the European Fintech Awards event in Brussels. I consciously tried to focus on the elements that are relevant for corporate treasurers. After my visit of the Dutch Fintech Awards I had high expectations. I came back inspired, though not all was relevant. This is my review. […]
Minor Treasury Management at Hogeschool Utrecht increasingly successful
| 15-8-2017 | Pieter de Kiewit | treasuryXL | In July 2017 our expert Pieter de Kiewit wrote an interesting article about the minor treasury managment of Hogeschool Utrecht (University of Applied Sciences). Hogeschool Utrecht started with this program three years ago and Pieter had been asked by Frans Boumans, lecturer and researcher at Hogeschool […]
Why does Apple issue a green bond? Spoiler alert: I do not know (yet)
24-7-2017 | Pieter de Kiewit | treasuryXL | Recently we had an “inner circle meeting” of treasuryXL in which we talk about developments and the direction we want to go. One of the invitees suggested we pay special attention to sustainable financing and related topics. I agree that this topic is quite prominent and this […]
Banking license Klarna & Adyen: The end of their competitive advantage?
| 5-7-2017 | Pieter de Kiewit | Last weeks the payment service providers (PSPs) Adyen and Klarna received banking licenses. The gap between Fintech and traditional banks is being closed with the new kid on the block entering the traditional market. I can see the parallel to Amazon taking over Wholefoods and entering traditional retail. […]