Fall 2010 Edition
Treasury Pulse

Treasury Trends

Standards Promote Efficiency, Flexibility
in Today's Global Business Environment
Standardization is an important tool — along with centralization — helping today's treasury managers pursue core objectives such as cost reduction and greater efficiency. As globalization threatens to make banking and business transactions increasingly complicated, standards are playing a critical role in helping corporations achieve these goals. [more]

Bank Account Management

SWIFT Standards, Economy Help Set Stage
for Electronic Bank Account Management
Corporate interest in automating bank account management is starting to percolate. SWIFT's recent introduction of related messaging standards has combined with a heightened treasury focus on cost reduction — due to slow economic growth — to accelerate electronic bank account management (eBAM) initiatives. [more]

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Working Capital Management

SWIFT TSU Adds Efficiency, Financing,
Risk Mitigation to Open Account Trade
A new SWIFT resource aims to help banks improve working capital management, risk mitigation and efficiency for their corporate clients conducting international trade on open account terms. [more]

Trade Finance

Understanding the URDG 758
The Uniform Rules for Demand Guarantees, 2010 Revision, International Chamber of Commerce Publication No. 758 became effective on July 1, 2010. URDG 758 offers more comprehensive, stronger and clearer rules for demand guarantees. This article looks at key provisions. [more]
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