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  • Case Study: Implementing an A2/P2 CP Program Following the $1.1 billion acquisition of Norit N.V., Cabot's debt balance grew from $600 million to $1.4 billion. Cabot’s treasury team was mandated with reviewing the capital structure and establishing ways to optimize interest expense by rebalancing the company’s fixed versus variable debt.

    May 14, 2013

  • Up Close: FP&A in Banking Many aspects of FP&A are fundamental across industries and markets. To the extent that the business models of industries differ, however, so too does the analysis. In traditional banking, two unique aspects of the business require significant analytical attention: the interest margin and asset quality.

    Apr 30, 2013

  • Corporate Issuance of CP Continues to Drop in Canada Until recently, Canada levied a withholding tax on commercial paper issues in the United States, making it attractive for Canadian subsidiaries of U.S. parents to issue CP in Canada. But since the tax was lifted 18 months ago, CP issuance by foreign entities has dropped significantly in Canada—a trend that will likely continue.

    Apr 16, 2013

  • Five Ways to Protect Your Company from Mis-sold Swaps In June 2012, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) revealed that banks may have been mis-selling interest-rate hedging products (IRHPs) to businesses. Almost a year later, after assessing eight large UK banks, the FSA has released a pilot report announcing that an estimated 90 percent, or about 40,000 IRHPs, were mis-sold to unsophisticated users from 2001 to present.

    Apr 12, 2013

  • AFP Fraudwatch: A Cautionary Tale for Corporates Corporates should think twice before refusing their banks' security recommendations. Otherwise they could be held liable when a fraud loss occurs, if a March 18 court decision is any indicator.

    Apr 09, 2013

  • Case Study: Streamlining Bank Relationships in Record Time In 2010, Bombardier’s treasury group was presented with an all-too-common challenge: migrate a global banking infrastructure for a legal entity holding restructuration. And, they wanted results in one calendar year.

    Apr 03, 2013

  • Regulatory Overhaul of UK Payments Systems Coming? The UK Government has proposed a regulatory overhaul of the nation’s payments systems. A new regulator would be put in place, supplanting the Payments Council and ending the industry’s current practice of self-regulation.

    Mar 29, 2013

  • Cote Discusses Financial Market Infrastructure at AFPC Montreal Agathe Côté, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, spoke at Association for Financial Professionals of Canada-Montreal on Tuesday. She discussed the critical role of the Canadian financial market infrastructure, and the steps that the central bank, regulators and the industry are taking to strengthen that system.

    Mar 26, 2013

  • Even Higher Capital Requirements for Canadian Banks? Going first on the Basel III capital requirements might not have been enough for Canadian banks. According to Canada’s federal budget, introduced last week, some banks may have to hold even higher capital buffers.

    Mar 26, 2013

  • This Week in Corporate Finance: Cyprus Shake-Up We spent most of the week going back-and-forth as to whether Cyprus could be another Greece. The debt and equity markets rallied and fell depending on the latest news out of Nicosia. The general feeling at week’s end was that while this was probably not going to be a major disruption to the world financial markets.

    Mar 25, 2013

  • AFP Fraudwatch: Are PCI Compliance Fines Fair? This week, a look at the Genesco/Visa Lawsuit, which marks the first time that a retailer has sued a credit card company for losses related to fraud. Also, President Obama meets with top CEOs to discuss cybersecurity, a new plan is unveiled that could allow the CIA and NSA to access the FinCEN database, and six major banks get hit with DDoS attacks.

    Mar 17, 2013

  • Basel Committee Could Simplify Regulations Global regulators are considering making amendments to Basel III, due to complaints that they are too complicated to be effective. Stefan Ingves, chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said that a debate has arisen over whether the Basel regulatory framework is simple enough to implement, yet ambitious enough to make banks more secure.

    Mar 14, 2013

  • 10 Practitioner-Tested Debt Compliance Tips Cindy Fryer, CTP, Senior Director-Treasury, Endo Health Solutions, provided 10 recommendations to maintain debt compliance.

    Mar 14, 2013

  • AFP Fraudwatch: Treasury Weighs Global Expansion, Cyber Risk This week, AFP Fraudwatch speaks with Michael Leiter, former director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) and a speaker at the upcoming CTC Corporate Treasurers Forum. Leiter shares his views on cyber risk, one of the most critical threats to companies expanding globally.

    Mar 12, 2013

  • Best Practices: Fraud Prevention Recently on AFP’s discussion list corporate treasury and finance professionals discussed fraud prevention.

    Mar 11, 2013

  • This Week in Corporate Finance: Stocks Soar on U.S. Jobs Data For those looking for signs that the U.S. economy is finally pulling out of its morass, this was probably the best week in at least four or five years. The payrolls number came in at an above-consensus +236k and the unemployment rate fell lower than expected to 7.7 percent.

    Mar 11, 2013

  • Case Study: Building a Treasury Team from Scratch Three years ago, Cardinal Health spun off its $4 billion medical device subsidiary. As a newly independent conglomerate of semi‐integrated businesses with a global manufacturing and sales footprint, CareFusion had all the complexities of a major multinational corporation. The challenge and opportunity was setting up an effective but lean treasury function within uncompromising deadlines.

    Mar 06, 2013

  • Basel III Update: EU Agrees to Bank Bonus Cap It was a big week for Basel III news. The European Union agreed to cap bank bonuses, the Banco Central do Brasil announced its new capital rules, and the U.S. Federal Reserve made clear its intent to finalize rules.

    Mar 01, 2013

  • Credit Risk is Changing Canadian Corporate-Bank Relationships A persistent theme that emerged during a series of recent SCT roundtables was how the challenges of the banking sector are affecting bank relationships, counterparty credit and investment policies. The implementation of Basel III has caused banks to be much more concerned about the credit risk of their customers.

    Feb 18, 2013

  • AFP of Canada Member Profile: Rashid Maqsood Rashid Maqsood of Rexel Canada Electrical Inc. joined AFP of Canada in 2001 and is currently a member of The Society of Canadian Treasurers. He serves as Vice Chairman and Secretary of the AFP of Canada Board of Directors, which he has been a member of since 2008.

    Feb 15, 2013

  • What do Corporates Want? Plenty, say Banks Several banks and financial services providers recently revealed to AFP what they are hearing from their corporate clients—what they are concerned about, and what they want.

    Feb 13, 2013

  • Overcoming Low Interest Rates, Reduced FDIC Coverage One of the guard rails of short-term investing disappeared on New Year’s Day when the FDIC’s coverage of deposits shrunk to $250,000 from its previous unlimited level for noninterest-bearing accounts. Treasurers now must rethink any practices that were based on the previous deposit insurance.

    Feb 06, 2013

  • Canada Pulls the Plug on the Penny The Canadian Mint has ceased distributing pennies to financial institutions. While the phase-out will not impact check or electronic payments, it will affect cash payments. Businesses are expected to round the final amount or change owed in a fair, consistent and transparent manner.

    Feb 05, 2013

  • Best Practices: Reverse Wire Authorizations Recently on AFP’s discussion list corporate treasury and finance professionals discussed ADP reverse wire authorizations.

    Jan 18, 2013

  • Strategic Impacts from Basel III LCR Changes When it issued the full text of the revised Liquidity Coverage Ratio requirements for the Basel III capital adequacy regime, the Basel Committee surprised more than a few people by expanding the range of assets that banks could count as high-quality liquid assets. The implications for treasurers are profound.

    Jan 17, 2013

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