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Corporate Finance Articles
- Taming Commodity Risk, A Two-tier Hedging Strategy
Companies hedging commodity risk traditionally relied on procurement strategies such as fixed price contracts, escalation clauses and inventory stockpiling to minimize the risk of price escalation, but procurement measures alone often are not enough...
March 12, 2010
- Should End Users Worry About Centralized Derivatives Clearing?
Researchers with the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland analyze the impact of proposed centralized clearing for derivatives...
March 11, 2010
- Global Treasurer: Managing Risk in a Weak Dollar Environment
At the most basic level, a weaker dollar means higher translated earnings for companies that are long foreign currencies. ...
March 10, 2010
- CFOs, Treasurers to Discuss 'New Normal' Financial Environment
Chief financial officers and treasurers will convene in Washington in May to discuss how to operate in the "new normal" financial environment....
March 9, 2010
- Lean Machine: Applying Manufacturing Principles to Treasury and Finance
Manufacturing companies are well positioned to tackle foreign exchange risk and related costs. That's because they have developed processes and disciplines that they can leverage to achieve greater visibility into their foreign currency exposure, and to make better, faster decisions...
March 9, 2010
- What Every Corporate Debt Manager Should Know
Debt markets are not complicated. In fact, one expert says they are getting simpler with time....
March 8, 2010
- AFP EconWatch -- March 8, 2010
The severe winter weather that affected much of the U.S. last month was historic in both meteorological terms and the impact it had on millions of Americans. The storms also appear to have helped make last month the 25th month in the past 26 in which the economy failed to produce jobs on a net basis....
March 8, 2010
- March 2010 AFP Risk Newsletter
In the March issue of Risk, we will turn the pages on a Greek tragedy, mitigate counterparty credit risk, and do the disco with the Fed. As if that's not exciting enough, this month's peer to peer section looks at escheatment while another corporate treasury professional explains the career benefits of earning your Certified Treasury Professional designation....
March 3, 2010
- AFP EconWatch -- March 1, 2010
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke repeated the Fed's intention to maintain interest rates at historic low levels even as the U.S. economy expanded during the end of 2009 at pace faster than previously had been estimated....
March 1, 2010
- Disco, Discount Duck
Well I don't think the word "disco" had been used as much on a Thursday afternoon since Rick Dees (of the Weekly Top 40 Countdown fame) was topping the charts back in October 1976 with his infamous "Disco Duck." Of course the "disco" of current interest is the Federal Reserve's discount rate....
February 22, 2010
- What Lies Ahead for Risk Managers
A senior trader at Custom House describes the volatility situation in foreign exchange...
February 15, 2010
- AFP EconWatch - February 15, 2010
Even as wild winter weather threatened to slow temporarily the pace of the economic recovery, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke outlined how the bank intended to rein in its overly accommodative policy stance. He did not, however, mention the timing or pace of such moves....
February 15, 2010
- New AFP Director Hunt Talks Treasury Issues
Previously at 3M Company, Tom Hunt oversaw the global banking strategy, redesigned and implemented a new domestic cash management structure and led acquisition activities for the treasury department....
February 11, 2010
- The Effect of Check21 on Float
The Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act or "Check 21" took effect on October 28, 2004 and has proven to be a game changer in the world of check processing. Check 21 has catalyzed the check clearing system's transformation from mainly paper check processing to mainly electronic processing using digital check images. But has Check 21 similarly affected the check float game?...
February 3, 2010
- February 2010 AFP Risk Newsletter
This month's Risk newsletter asks just how safe is mobile banking. Ever wonder what happens to your company's bottom line when a foreign currency devaluates overnight? Columnist Wolfgang Koester heads to Venezuela to satisfy your curiosity. ...
February 3, 2010
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