Treasury Pulse
Winter 2010
Best Practices
  Treasury Benchmarking Survey Highlights Gaps
Between Typical and High-Performing Operations

Large gaps between the performance of typical treasury organisations and world-class treasury units suggest there are opportunities for many companies to improve their treasury operations. So says a recent treasury benchmarking survey that included European respondents.
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Electronic Payments
  The Future of Card Acceptance: Lower Costs,
Emergence of Pan-European Providers

Treasurers are dealing with a receivables chain that is already almost one-third card payments, and that portion is expected to grow. Find out what you can expect to see in the European card market in coming years.
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Trade Finance
  Crisis Spurs Letter-of-Credit Revival
While open account trade is clearly here to stay, the events of the past couple of years have called on corporate financial managers to reconsider the merits of the letter of credit.
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Cash Management
  Shared Service Centres Remain at the Heart
of Performance Improvements

Best practice in cash management is still a core aim of many corporate treasurers despite the economic difficulties of the past 18 months. And the Shared Service Centre remains a key component of many initiatives to improve corporate treasury performance.
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