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The newly rebranded group of market leading and iconic companies met with sponsor Societe Generale to share and learn on elections, digitization and more. Members of NeuGroup’s newly rebranded Treasurers’ Roundtable for Extraordinary Companies, or TREX, gathered last week to share and learn in a virtual meeting sponsored by Societe Generale. Thanks to everyone who participated! TREX was re-branded to provide a forum for treasurers from companies which have the following qualitative and quantitative characteristics: Commanding position in its industry…

A pilot meeting for NeuGroup for High Potentials takes flight and a roundtable for professionals in the Middle East kicks off. NeuGroup this week held two first-of-their kind meetings: A Middle East Business & Treasury Roundtable sponsored by Standard Chartered, and a meeting of NeuGroup for High Potentials, which brought together high-potential employees identified by NeuGroup member companies. The Middle East and beyond. A dynamic virtual meeting offered Standard Chartered’s clients in the Middle East and members of NeuGroup in…

Sponsor Deutsche Bank and more than 50 women in finance shared insights and advice on managing careers at the latest WiNG event.   A record number of women—55— participated in Women in NeuGroup (WiNG)’s fifth event, hearing insights from speakers at companies including GE and P&G and sponsor Deutsche Bank. Much has changed since WiNG took flight in 2019 with three in-person meetings, but NeuGroup’s mission remains the same in this new, virtual world: To offer women in treasury and…

Thank you to NeuGroup's FX Managers' Peer Members for sharing and learning with us last week. A big thank you as well to Wells Fargo, including Sharif M. Saba, CFA, Matthew Daniel, Mark Veale and team, for your support and insight. Anne Friberg, we appreciate all you do to help #corporateFXleaders #connectwithneugroup. This meeting's mantra: FX risk management is more important than ever.

A big thank you to NeuGroup’s Assistant Treasurers’ Group of Thirty (AT30) members for being part of last week’s H2 opening week. There was a lot of great interaction and in-depth exchanges on some hugely topical issues. One exchange could have used a better undersea cable to Zoom the speaker from across the world, but he still brought his knowledge and perspective effectively over the line. Michael Roberts, David Liao, Jim Kelly, David Wagstaff and the entire HSBC Global Banking…

In our second meeting of H2 launch week, NeuGroup's Global Cash and Banking Group members discussed cash forecasting modeling, which is not one size fits all, and requires data to back-test a portfolio of algos to match your portfolio of cash flows to get the cash forecast right. If you work for a company that can't hack it, maybe find one that pays more and lets you work from home. Finally, we tied the solution of our sponsor TIS (Treasury…

A big thanks to NeuGroup’s FX Managers’ Peer Group 2 members and Societe Generale for getting our H2 meeting season off to a great start. Anna Faustini, Christophe Downey and the entire SocGen team, we appreciate your support! Kudos to Anne Friberg for bringing us all together and making it so we never forget whose face is on the SEK100 note. In a the post-day one cocktail hour, we held a two-part quiz competition. The first part involved a scavenger…

Cash investment managers compare notes on money funds, deposits, risk and more in a virtual interactive session. Treasury investment managers attending a NeuGroup virtual interactive session (VIS) this week heard timely analysis from sponsor ICD about the ups and downs in money markets over the last six months as the pandemic took hold. They also got the valuable and prized chance to learn what moves other managers are making—or not making—as they weigh the risks and rewards of taking advantage…