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Corporate Treasurers Laud New BoC Governor’s Vast Experience When Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty appointed Export Development Canada CEO Stephen Poloz as the new Governor of the Bank of Canada last week, it was a signal to treasurers that the Canadian government intends to focus on expanding foreign trade.
May 07, 2013
What Your Chinese Rivals are Planning Chinese foreign direct investment is relatively modest at this time, but is growing and generally is expected to become even more prevalent. Treasurers will need to adjust accordingly and take a more active role in advising senior management on how to best deploy precious cash resources.
Feb 05, 2013
Cash Forecasting Tips from the Airline Industry Over 60 treasury and finance professionals were in attendance at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Treasury Conference. The top three topics that airline treasury professionals feel could add more value to their organizations going forward are cash forecasting, working capital management and bank relationship management.
Jan 01, 2013
Keys to Effective Capex Management In today's resource-constrained environment, the pressure is on to reduce capex and opex. What is inputted today as a capital investment and an asset may have strong future impact on operational efficiencies and return on investment (ROI) figures....
Dec 27, 2012
Study: Treasury’s Role is Expanding, Transcending Recent discussions with members of the Corporate Treasurers Council (CTC) and the Society of Canadian Treasurers (SCT) reaffirmed trends observed during the 2011 Strategic Role of Treasury Survey: treasury is growing in importance within the organization, and is transcending its traditional functions.
Dec 20, 2012
Why Treasury Must Pay Attention to Low-Value Payments Corporate treasury needs to think about whether the payments products they have in place adequately suit the new business environment, which is becoming flooded with low-value payments.
Dec 07, 2012
Case Study: Treasury Management Amid the Euro Crisis The sovereign debt crisis in Europe underscores the need for smart treasury management. Ken Shuyama, CTP, Director of International Treasury for Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., offers his company's perspective.
Aug 29, 2012
Best Practices: Managing Earnings Risk Unpredictable earnings are jeopardizing many once-solid business models. Corporates must make difficult decisions related to their long-term capital investments, deployment of available cash, and the pricing of their products.
Aug 23, 2012
China Syndrome: Canadian Companies Feel the Heat The slowdown of demand in China has become a major concern for Canadian commodity companies over the past several weeks, corporates say.
Aug 13, 2012
Survey: Companies Hoarding $1.2 Trillion—7% of Sales U.S. and European companies are hoarding approximately $1.2 trillion—nearly 7 percent of all aggregated sales—in response to the eurozone crisis and other global uncertainties, according to a new working capital survey by Ernst & Young.
May 31, 2012
SWIFT Institute Will Merge Financial, Academic Communities SWIFT has launched the SWIFT Institute, a new initiative to foster research and generate innovation in the financial community.
Apr 26, 2012
Canadian Firms are Diversifying International Portfolios Over the past several years, the U.S. has lost some ground as Canada’s top trading partner. As a result, Export Development Canada (EDC), Canada’s official export credit agency, is seeing many of its corporate customers looking to diversify their international portfolios, regardless of the risk or cost.
Apr 24, 2012
RBC: Solid Growth in 2012 for Canadian Economy Following modest growth in fourth quarter 2011, RBC forecasts that the Canadian economy will pick up the pace this year.
Mar 21, 2012
BoC: Canadian Inflation to Remain Low The Bank of Canada said Wednesday in its Monetary Policy Report that Canadian inflation is likely to remain low for at least the first half of the New Year. That projection gained more traction Friday as Statistics Canada reported that the inflation rate dropped to 2.3 percent in December.
Jan 20, 2012
SWIFT Calls on Banks to Be More Customer Focused SWIFT challenged banks to concentrate less on proprietary products and more on simplified services that are client-oriented in a new white paper released Monday.
Jan 10, 2012
BoC: Canadian Business Outlook Turns Slightly Negative in 2012 Canadian businesses’ attitudes about the economy are turning pessimistic in the New Year, according to a new study by the Bank of Canada.
Jan 10, 2012
This Week in Corporate Finance: U.S. Growth vs. European Fears The week was comprised mostly of two counter-balancing forces fighting for dominance on a hypothetical teeter-totter. Those forces being increased economic growth in the U.S. versus a continuing fear of European crisis and recession.
Jan 09, 2012
Study: UK CFOs Highly Cautious Headed into 2012 A breakup of the euro and a possible double-dip recession have UK CFOs tightening their wallets and shying away from risk, a new study shows.
Jan 04, 2012
This Week in Corporate Finance: Continued Uncertainty Headed into 2012 Congratulations to all, as we have survived yet another year of the “Times of Trouble” (see Russia 1598 – 1613). 2011 was a year that started out on a positive note only to suffer through the trials and tribulations of economic, political and even environmental challenges.
Jan 03, 2012
This Week in Corporate Finance: ECB Intervention Causes Disparate Reactions The markets initially cheered the news of the ECB's injection of 489 billion euro into the European banking system, but that cheer slowly morphed into a bit of gloom as investors became concerned that the intervention indicated greater liquidity problems in the European banking system than had been previously perceived.
Dec 28, 2011
The Year in Corporate Finance A year that seemed so full of promise deteriorated into the worst since 2008 as black swan events occurred and problems long since ignored finally came to a head.
Dec 21, 2011
A Brief (Positive) Outlook for 2012 The American economy, and especially American businesses, are not only doing “okay” but have a bright future, if we do certain things. America still has the ability to innovate, to be entrepreneurial, and to create intellectual capital, all of which are the basis of the founding of this country.
Dec 20, 2011
With Some Exceptions, Bankers Mostly Pessimistic about 2012 AFP interviewed economists and senior executives from banks at last month's Annual Conference. The goal was to hear their perspectives on the year ahead. Their outlook for 2012: cloudy with a chance of a double-dip recession.
Dec 19, 2011
Canadian Treasurers Both Hopeful and Cautious for 2012 Given that Canada has weathered the effects of the financial crisis considerably better than the United States, it’s no surprise that Canadian treasury and finance professionals are more optimistic than their American peers. Even so, many questions loom as we head into 2012.
Dec 14, 2011
Corporates Look Ahead to Questionable 2012 At the end of 2010, with the recovery underway, many corporates held positive—though wary—attitudes about 2011. They had good reason, as a multitude of problems awaited. Going into 2012, many corporates remain hopeful, but have yielded to the fact that tough trials undoubtedly lie ahead.
Dec 14, 2011

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