Global Finance selects the best treasury and cash management banks, globally and by region, and the best providers of treasury management systems and services by category. Treasury and cash management is becoming an increasingly global business, and customers are looking for banks and treasury management software providers that...
Under a recently introduced program, customers can directly buy and manage Treasury securities from the U.S. Treasury Department. After investors open an account and make an initial $25 investment, they can add to their account holdings in any increment that they choose, even a...
RYE, N.Y. -- GAMCO Investors, Inc. (NYSE: GBL) today named Ronald S. Eaker as Co-Portfolio Manager of The Gabelli U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund (the "Fund"), a fund that seeks to provide high current income consistent with the preservation of principal and liquidity. The Fund (known as "GUSTO") invests exclusively...
ANZ BANK has been rated best treasury banker in Australia in a survey of the nation's top 250 companies. The East Coles treasury survey rated 60 treasury dealers at 32 banks. "The best of breed category was identified on the basis of the respondent nominating which bank they...
The Senate has confirmed several of President George W Bush's Treasury nominations, including Kenneth Dam to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; Peter Fisher to be Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance; Rosario Marin to be Treasurer of the United States; James Gurule to be Under Secretary of...
Multinational companies must have an effective treasury operation, but is it a core function that must be run in-house? The answer to this question was almost always yes, but it is increasingly becoming no. Globally, around 400-500 multinationals outsource their treasury operations, typically to...
The Treasury Management Policy applies to the treasury functions of all public sector agencies, incorporating both General Government agencies and Government businesses. However, the policy is of greater relevance to Government businesses, given the extent of their treasury functions. The objective of the policy is to provide an overarching framework...
Now that the question of the next head of the International Monetary Fund has been settled, the normal second guessing has already set in. The main point: The U.S. Treasury may have won the battle over this particular personnel decision but lost the war in terms of its relationship with...
Outsourcing of treasury activities has become a latest trendsetter in the corporate world today. The concept of handing over bits of its treasury department to third party is gaining momentum in the industrial sector. Some foresee consolidation, with banks, technology providers, and other partners teaming up to form treasury-outsourcing powerhouses....
This paper highlights on Treasury management systems which were first introduced by major cash management banks in the late 1980s, shortly after personal computers came on the scene. With the invention of treasury management system, reports can be downloaded, and the treasurer can start the day with a consolidated position....
This paper examines whether there is a flight-to-liquidity premium in Treasury bond prices by comparing them with prices of bonds issued by Refcorp, a U.S. Government agency. As these bonds are affected, they have the same credit as Treasury bonds. A strong evidence that this liquidity premium is related to...
By Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 29--The Treasury Department has proposed amending the Treasury Act to streamline procedures in approving the development of state properties. Verachai Tantikul, treasury director-general, said development of state ...
Sep. 10--The U.S. Treasury is finally making it easier for savers to buy and sell Treasury securities ... maybe easy enough for Treasuries to gain ground on certificates of deposit. Treasury securities haven't been a hot commodity in recent months, thanks...
Reducing treasury related expenses can be a complex issue. CFO's has numerous options for reducing treasury costs, but little time to screen and select the best method. Treasury providers offer many solutions via innovative products, services and technologies but finding one to maximize the impacts on expenses without unduly disrupting...
Ronald K. Noble has been sworn in to the recently established post of undersecretary of the Treasury Enforcement. In this position, the 38-year-old Noble, who was nominated to the post by President Clinton, becomes the highest ranking Black in the history of federal law enforcement. Prior to his...
This paper discusses the Treasury & Risk Management's Survey about Treasury and Risk management. The consolidation trend in the banking industry may be shrinking your choice of banks, but Treasury & Risk Management's 2004 Treasury Management Survey can at least help you evaluate those left standing. It also will provide...
PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT AND THE NATURE OF FINANCIAL CRISES WOULD BE PROFOUNDLY DIFFERENT. The U.S. Treasury debt may soon be paid off. However, Treasury securities perform vital and difficult-to-replace roles: as riskless assets in portfolios; benchmarks in the pricing of private securities; reliable hedges for marketmakers in debt securities and...
U.S. Treasury securities?such as bills, notes and bonds?are debt obligations of the U.S. government. When an investor buys a Treasury security, he is lending money to the federal government for a specified period of time. Because these debt obligations are backed by the full faith and credit" of the government,...
TORONTO--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 24, 1996--Treasury International Inc. (OTC BB:TREY) announced Tuesday that is has terminated its agreements to acquire each of the Isometric Group and Realmont Ltd. The company has not to date been able to obtain the necessary financing. Treasury International Inc. has recently...
WASHINGTON AFP — John Snow officially stepped down as US treasury secretary Friday ahead of the swearing-in of his successor, Henry Paulson. Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt will serve as acting secretary until Paulson is sworn in, a Treasury statement said. The US Senate confirmed Henry Paulson as...