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Justin Jones

BankingRegional
April 24, 2024

The Big Picture: Why Bank Funding Changes Matter to Corporates

Putting a NeuGroup member question about fed funds credit lines in a broader context for banks and their clients. Corporations have been spending significantly more time and effort monitoring and mitigating bank counterparty credit risk since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in 2023. NeuGroup member companies have taken a variety of steps, with some limiting or eliminating their exposure to institutions other than large, global systemically important banks. At the same time, “banks, especially regional banks, are being pushed to reevaluate their funding…
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BankingTechnology
April 24, 2024

From Banking Chaos to Order: Using TIS To Streamline Payments

How one global logistics company transformed its bank connectivity through the implementation of the TIS cloud platform. When the director of treasury solutions at a multinational corporate was tasked with leading a migration to a cloud-based ERP, he seized the opportunity to also implement TIS, which acts as a hub that centralizes bank connectivity and payment file generation. Previously, the company relied on a tangled web of bank accounts and users connecting to them mostly through bank portals and a few host-to-host…
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FXRegional
April 17, 2024

Confronting Currency Complexities: A Capability Center in India

Designing a structure to help FX hedging effectiveness, address tax and regulatory issues, and reduce leakage. Establishing centers of excellence or global capabilities centers is one way a growing number of multinational corporations are transforming themselves into more efficient enterprises that tap skilled talent in overseas markets with lower labor costs to perform value-added services. These corporates must make decisions about where to locate the centers, their functional currencies, how to fund them and how they invoice the parent or…
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FXRisk ManagementThe NeuGroup Insights Interview
April 17, 2024

Seeing Risk Through an Auditor’s Sharp Lens: Bill Brewer of BMS

Bristol Myers Squibb’s Bill Brewer on what treasury can learn about risk with an auditor’s mindset and perspective.Effective financial risk management is a fundamental component of how treasury delivers value to a business. And treasury’s skills managing risk have been put to the test repeatedly and profoundly in the last few years amid the pandemic, spiking interest rates, bank failures, wars and more. At Bristol Myers Squibb, treasury has risen to the challenge thanks in part to the expertise of a…
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Capital Markets
April 10, 2024

NeuGroup Members on 3 Fed Rate Cuts in 2024: Fuhgeddaboudit!

In a late March poll, Capital Markets members expected one, two or no cuts—a view increasingly held by the market. On the same day in late March that the Federal Reserve signaled it still expected to cut interest rates three times this year, almost none of the members of NeuGroup for Capital Markets polled at their spring meeting sponsored by HSBC believed that would happen. Call them prescient, perhaps: the poll came weeks before March jobs data and Wednesday’s hot inflation report pushed more investors and economists…
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FXTechnology
April 10, 2024

Optimizing FX Hedging: Leveraging Technology for Cost Reduction

Feeling pressure to cut costs, FX leaders are leveraging tools to determine which currency pairs to hedge and when. Reducing the cost of FX hedging requires a multifaceted approach that integrates technology, data analytics and collaboration across various business functions. With the right strategy and tools, companies can mitigate risks effectively while reducing expenses in an increasingly volatile global marketplace. At last month’s summit meeting of NeuGroup for Foreign Exchange sponsored by Chatham Financial, FX managers emphasized the need for hedge optimization tools…
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The NeuGroup Insights InterviewTreasury Management
April 3, 2024

A Treasurer Devoted to Balancing Service and Financial Strength

Sheila Quintus is a believer in service and treasury’s critical role in enabling Medtronic to fulfill its medical mission.Medtronic treasurer Sheila Quintus has a deeply-held belief in service that makes working at a medical device and technology company whose primary mission is to contribute meaningfully to human welfare a natural fit. She sees treasury’s purpose as connecting the fulfillment of Medtronic’s central mission with the need to deliver strong financial performance that will support growth. In a new NeuGroup video you can watch by…
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Senior ExecutiveTechnology
April 3, 2024

Strategic Thinking: How Paths to CFO and CFO Roles Are Evolving

Promoting people in finance who want strategic roles can be challenging if they find some CFO duties unappealing.By Joseph Neu During the first peer group meetings of NeuGroup’s spring season, I have been listening intently for signals indicating how finance functions are changing course. One trend may be the strengthening of strategic finance roles under the CFO. This development arises in part because not everyone who is drawn to strategic, value-enhancing roles wants responsibility for everything in a CFO’s job…
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TechnologyThe NeuGroup Insights Interview
March 28, 2024

Treasury 4’s Mission: Unlock the Power of Data for Finance Teams

Fintech founders Ed Barrie, Steve Helmbrecht and Nathan Brown explain what compelled them to reunite. The most sophisticated finance and treasury teams are ahead of the curve in turning heaps of data into actionable insights, often with the aid of visualization tools that tell a story better than just facts and figures. A fintech called Treasury4 wants to make data-driven decision-making more accessible than ever for corporates of any size. In the newest episode of NeuGroup’s Strategic Finance Lab podcast—available now on Apple and Spotify, and sponsored…
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BankingD&I
March 27, 2024

A Shared Vision for Diverse-Owned Firms: Verizon and Amazon

Treasury leaders at the two companies urge peers to aim high in providing meaningful opportunities to diversity firms. In the last several years, treasury team leaders at NeuGroup member companies Verizon and Amazon have stood out for their determination to provide meaningful opportunities and fee income in capital markets transactions to banks and brokerage firms with women, Black, Latino and veteran owners. These members have also been outspoken about how their actions in this sphere of influence align with wider corporate goals. A recent…
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