October 2006
HAROLD YOUNG is head of payments for Deutsche Bank GlobalTransaction Banking (GTB)-Cash Management. Based in New York, Young oversees Cash Management's global product offering, including ...
Treasury & Risk's editors have been hard at work on our annual "40 Under 40" list, searching for the most energetic, and accomplished, finance executives under the age of 40
Companies are finding it's not always that easy to replace disgruntled customers, which has recently planted customer retention as yet another moving object on the CFO's radar screen. Fortunately, there are new metrics that could make the challenge easier to size up.
Software vendor FIREapps offers trasurers an on-demand tool for enterprisewide foreign exchange exposure analysis
With a string of products due in the coming months and a partnership with cisco systems, sap is adding significant new functionality for its push into the governance, risk and compliance marketplace
A Web-based tool by Russell Investment Group can help treasuries get a better read on their pension assets and liabilities
When it comes to whistleblower compliance, the biggest headache for companies is always in the follow-up. Was the problem investigated and resolved? If not, what do you tell the board? These tools keep track
Critics of excessive CEO compensation are turning their sights toward CFO pay levels
Moving cash through a war zone like Iraq or coutries without mature banking systems can create a whole new set of challenges
Everybody likes a discount, but this banker argues companies looking for too much could delay development of needed technologies
If you listen to folks from the capital markets, you would presumethat most CFOs hate the very words Sarbanes-Oxley. The fact is they don't. In ...
MBIA's new CFO, C. Edward (Chuck) Chaplin, is working to make finance and business units work better together
The PCAOB's chief auditor discusses the next set of long-overdue changes to the critical, but controversial Auditing Standard No. 2
FINANCE LEADERS ADAPT TO NEW CHALLENGES
TREASURERS STILL SLOW TO MOVE INTO CHECKLESS
Hedge fund fixed-income trading doubled through early 2006, according to a new study
Checkless technology is becoming increasingly sophisticated, but treasurers are still skeptical. Those that try remote deposit or check conversion, however, tend to sing their praises
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