Payment Innovations: New Tools Become Mainstream
Just a little over three years since Check 21 became effective, payment processing technology continues to advance, while acceptance grows. Consider that as of October 2007, about 12.2 billion checks per year were being cleared via an image-based process, ...
Purchasing Cards' New Velocity
Companies are enjoying growing benefits from their p-cards, thanks to better technology and carefully designed programs. When the quartet of hurricanes whipped through Florida this summer, the city of Fort Lauderdale needed to immediately deploy emergen ...
How To Minimize Risks With Derivatives
Despite a spate of derivatives scandals, companies continue to use hedging instruments to protect against swings in interest rates, commodity prices, fx rates and equity values. Over the past decade, the risks arising from organizations' use -- or, more ...
Treasury Controls Tighten
documentation requirements, according to Thomas M . Degnan, vice president of treasury operations ...
Shared Realities: Bankers and Treasurers Weigh the Issues
Business Finance assembled a group of treasury professionals to discuss balance sheet management and liquidity."> At the Association for Financial Professionals' 2004 annual conference, Business Finance assembled a group of treasury professionals to ...
When Disaster Strikes, Treasury Can Strike Back
Here's how to ensure cash management activities aren't crippled by unfortunate events. The events that historically have been the focus of disaster recovery planning -- fire, floods and hurricanes, for example -- certainly have exacted tremendous financ ...
Exclusive Survey Report: Taking Treasury's Pulse
initiatives, mergers and acquisitions ( M A), globalization, financial industry consolidation, and e... extremely important impact on their treasury operation in the past year. At Herff Jones, M A is "a hot... -- for example, as a result of M ...
Purchasing Cards: The Evolution Continues
Among the developments: expanded use, virtual cards and integration with e-procurement systems. Purchasing card programs are mutating and evolving at a rapid clip, and procurement pros are becoming increasingly adept at finding new ways to leverage thes ...
Building a Strong Syndicated Credit Facility
Companies are increasingly turning to the syndicated loan market to fund acquisitions or pay down more expensive debt. In late 2004, II VI Inc., a Saxonburg, Pa.-based manufacturer of products that incorporate synthetic crystal materials, was seeking to ...
The Route to the Right Treasury Technology
with a history of M A activity offer robust systems that perform as they should. However, some vendors assemble ...












