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Justin Jones

TechnologyTreasury Management
January 31, 2022

A Treasurer’s Transformation: A Decade at Oracle to Fintech Venture Capital Investor

Former NeuGroup Tech20 member Eric Ball describes his transition from treasurer to VC investor and more in our debut podcast. Welcome to the inaugural edition of the NeuGroup Insights Podcast! We kick things off with former Oracle treasurer and Tech20 member Eric Ball, a longtime NeuGroup friend who is now general partner and co-founder of Impact Venture Capital—just one of numerous hats he wears. He’s also co-founder and chairman of capital markets startup CapConnect+, chairman of the special purpose acquisition…
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Capital MarketsPension and Benefits
January 26, 2022

Bears in Winter: Well-Funded Pension Plans Warm to Hibernation

As more pension plans enjoy surpluses, they consider derisking strategies including hibernation vs. termination.Participants at a recent meeting of NeuGroup for Pensions and Benefits sponsored by Insight Investment voiced concerns about pursuing buyouts of their pension plans by insurers and leaned more toward hibernating plans, although they left room for exceptions. Hibernation occurs with so-called frozen plans that are no longer accruing future benefits and are usually well-funded or overfunded. It involves managing risk to reduce volatility by adopting a…
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TechnologyTreasury Management
January 26, 2022

Looking Forward: Five Thoughts on the Future of Treasury

Balancing efficiency and value, and managing people vs. technology, will be key priorities for finance in the future.By Joseph NeuProviding foresight on the future of treasury is always a crowd-pleaser with NeuGroup members. During sessions over the last few months, I had the privilege of sharing my current thoughts on the topic and hearing member reactions. A shared passion project. Most of these sessions (and more may be coming) have been done in partnership with Jean Furter, now treasurer of Poly,…
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Capital MarketsCompliance
January 26, 2022

SEC Share Repurchase Proposals: Key Takeaways From a Special NeuGroup Session With Sidley Austin

Treasury teams seek guidance on how best to respond to SEC’s buyback disclosure and cooling-off period proposals. In response to requests from several members, NeuGroup recently hosted a special session with partners from the law firm Sidley Austin to discuss proposed rule amendments to SEC Rule 10b5-1 and disclosures about share repurchase plans that the SEC announced in mid-December. The session followed one on the same topic NeuGroup held the week before. Prabhat Mehta and Sonia Gupta Barros, partners in…
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ComplianceRisk Management
January 26, 2022

Drawing Legal Lines: Internal Audit and Attorney-Client Privilege

Insights on when and how internal auditors involve lawyers to protect information in an audit report.Most members of NeuGroup for Internal Audit Executives either don’t have a formal process to secure attorney-client privilege (ACP) for their audit reports or are working to formalize one. That takeaway emerged at a recent group session where other members shared how the process works at their companies. But first, some context: According to the law firm Gibson Dunn, “Generally speaking, internal audit reports and…
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BankingTechnology
January 19, 2022

Eye-Opening: A Tech Treasurer Embraces APIs To See Cash in Real Time

A growing tech company connects with FinLync as it juggles cash, debt and a need to improve visibility.Real-time cash management made possible by wider adoption of APIs by banks has provided one tech treasurer the daily visibility into the company’s bank account balances that he craved for years. “This has become more important to us not just since Covid, but since tax reform in 2017 when we were sitting on a couple billion dollars offshore, like most tech companies,” he told peers…
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Treasury Management
January 19, 2022

Building Blocks To Mitigate Key Person Risk and Boost Resiliency

How finance teams can prepare for the departures of members with valuable knowledge in a tight labor market.The question of how to mitigate so-called key person risk as treasury teams grapple with high turnover and difficulty filling open positions surfaced among members at a fall meeting of NeuGroup for Mid-Cap Treasurers sponsored by Chatham Financial. The broader context of the conversation was a session where Chatham advisors reviewed the key components of risk management—strategy, operating model and technology—and discussed case studies…
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Talking ShopTechnology
January 19, 2022

Talking Shop: The Status of Bloomberg Disaster Recovery Services

Editor’s note: NeuGroup’s online communities provide members a forum to pose questions and give answers. Talking Shop shares valuable insights from these exchanges, anonymously. Send us your responses: [email protected]. Member question: “We received a notice from Bloomberg that our Disaster Recovery (DR) service was ending on 12/31, but it seems they have kept it on for now. (I have not asked Bloomberg if they have extended due to Omicron.) “We are looking at adding additional licensees with the hybrid work environment.…
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BankingCapital Allocation
January 19, 2022

Spreading Capital Like Peanut Butter: One Bank’s Allocation Method

An understandable and flexible approach supported by top executives brought business leaders on board.Extensive analysis showed a large regional bank’s share price is highly correlated to consistent return on equity (ROE) performance, prompting its treasury team to set about developing a process to ensure the appropriate ‘E’ was assigned to business units. The treasurer described the bank’s “hybrid” capital allocation approach to peers in a recent meeting. Three “guiding principles” to developing the approach were making sure the aggregated allocated…
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Capital MarketsCash & Working CapitalCompliance
January 12, 2022

Talk About SEC’s Proposed 30-Day Buyback Cooling-Off Period Heats Up

Members say the proposal for 10b5-1 plans would limit a corporate’s flexibility to execute buybacks efficiently.The SEC’s proposal that corporates wait 30 days after the adoption of a Rule 10b5-1 share repurchase plan before buying back stock would significantly restrict the flexibility of companies to execute the plans effectively. That key takeaway emerged at a session NeuGroup convened this week at the request of treasurers examining the potential implications of several SEC proposals issued Dec. 15 regarding 10b5-1 plans, including…
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