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EMIR, reminder EMIR stands for “European Market Infrastructure Regulation” and has been passed on December 19th, 2012 and enacted on March 15th, 2013. The European Market Infrastructure Regulation is an EU regulation aimed at reducing systemic counterparty and operational risk and thereby prevent future financial system collapses. Its focus is regulation of over the counter (OTC) derivatives, central counterparties, and trade repositories. It provides steer on reporting of derivative contracts, implementation of risk management standards and common rules for central counterparties and trade re ..read more

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Automated bank connectivity through a single secure channel has become essential to reduce costs, facilitate on-boarding by banks, secure transactions, speed up and automate reconciliations and reduce staff workload. A “Bank Single Gateway” is no longer a "plus", but a "must" that every fund servicer or fund should have. It's the key to finally having better cash management, as multinational companies do. True bank connectivity Many industries or institutions, such as family offices, hedge funds (i.e., PE's/RE's), SME's, among others, consider banking connectivity and automation as simply usin ..read more

DEBRA, a new acronym that could cause nightmares for tax managers but also for corporate treasurers. It is a new proposal from the EU that could have significant impacts to consider, although its objectives are laudable and logical. The idea is not new to encourage companies to increase their capitalization and reduce their bank debt (partly through more recourse to the capital market - CMU project). As always, the best can very quickly become the enemy of the good. It is certainly a proposal to be followed and monitored to ensure that it does not penalize indebted companies too much. DEBRA P ..read more

The treasurer is one of the people in finance who is sitting on the largest amount of data, and this is not likely to stop, as his role is growing. How do you make good use of this data and what are the pitfalls you have to face? Like salmons in rivers, we need to swim upstream to find the best way to optimize this incredible but too often untapped asset. A wall stands in front of treasurers Among the many reasons for not being able to go upstream and make (good) use of financial data, we can mention: the different data formats, the lack of standardization, the multitude of IT tools and soluti ..read more

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Although the large IT vendors are necessary to properly serve large MNCs, we must accept that they cannot solve every single problem and that fintech’s may be solutions to problems often faced. There is a bias consisting of over-sizing solutions, perceived as sort of kitchen robots by treasurers and CFOs. The solution can be often found in emerging fintechs, for those who take time to contemplate existing and performing solutions to complete and fulfil their IT panoply of tools. Fintechs, the Swiss army knife in finance. We have seen fintech's as modern solutions to a thousand and one problem ..read more