Treasury Management

This network brings together treasury and financial professionals who manage treasury functions. Members share a common interest in treasury, cash management, banking, risk management and investments.

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

The Risks of Working Capital Optimization

To counter the impact of the current macro-economic distress triggered by the 2008 financial crisis, corporate treasurers have been challenged for the last 5 years to optimize their company’s working capital. The major components of working capital are: accounts receivables (AR), accounts payables (AP), and inventory. Cash is still king and the dec...

24 April 2013 /wholesale

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Integrating the Manufacturers value chain

Corporate eBanking services are relatively new in emerging markets and are just beginning to take off. With many treasurers set to upgrade their payment systems there is an opportunity to provide them with a support system that helps them make all-inclusive decisions on their financial supply chain. The vast physical dealer network in the emergin...

14 February 2013 /wholesale

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Wall Street Systems Acquires IT2: Beware the ION Black Hole

The recent, somewhat unexpected announcement that Wall Street Systems (WSS) is acquiring IT2 Treasury Solutions from CapMan has all the connotations of déjà vu. In April 2011, Wall Street Systems was itself acquired by ION; while the premise for a successful combination of ION and WSS solutions was (as noted in my blog post on the subject) quite ...

14 January 2013 /wholesale

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Risk-based Collections Part IV: Collections Prioritization

In Part I of my Risk-based Collections blog series, I described the differences between Judgmental and Statistical Scoring models. In Part II, I discussed which scores are best for managing existing credit lines. In Part III, I described which scores are best for new application credit risk evaluation. In Part IV, I will describe how corporat...

31 May 2012 /regulation

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Risk-based Collections: Credit Evaluation for New Applicants

In Part I of my Risk-based Collections blog series, I described the differences between Judgmental and Statistical Scoring models. In Part II, I discussed which scores are best for managing existing credit lines. In Part III, I will describe which scores are best for new application credit risk evaluation. One of the best uses of generic scores...

27 April 2012 /regulation

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Risk-based Collections: Managing Existing Credit Lines

In Part I of my Risk-based Collections blog series, I described the differences between Judgmental and Statistical Scoring models. In part II, I will expand upon the specific uses of these models, in particular managing existing credit lines. For evaluating a request for additional credit or determining the collectability of an existing customer...

18 April 2012 /regulation

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Risk-based Collections: Judgmental Vs Statistical Models

Throughout the years I have worked in credit and collections, either doing credit analysis related to commercial lending decisions or identifying the elements that should be weighed when reviewing trade credit lines. I have seen many different scoring models used for many different purposes including judgmental scoring models that focus on the use...

10 April 2012 /regulation

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Sales and Operations Planning for Cash Forecasting

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a very well known practice in the physical supply chain. There are many reasons why I believe it could become an excellent paradigm to improve cash forecasting in the financial supply chain. The assumption I make is that treasurers would be in a better position if they could incorporate in their forecast...

18 October 2011 /wholesale

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

TiMS: From concept to reality

After testing the concept with corporate treasurers and through direct conversations with banks and software vendors at SIBOS earlier in September I am confident to anticipate that Treasury information Management System (TiMS) is the new frontier for treasury management systems (TMS). In my perspective a TiMS does not replace a treasury workstatio...

10 October 2011 /wholesale

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Dangers of unlimited deposit insurance.

In response to the FDIC's (US) request for comment on it's proposed implementation of Section 343 of Dodd Frank (unlimited deposit insurance on corporate non-interest bearing accounts), Treasury Strategies highlighted several shortcomings and offered three recommendations to mitigate some of the potentially destabilizing elements of the Act.

18 October 2010 /sibos /wholesale