What's the return on treasury? A large alternative investment manager obtained a partial answer while examining its cash management practices, including overnight investing. A few simple changes to its operating practices are now saving the company millions of dollars annually. And no, it isn't the installation of a whole new...
Dublin Airport Authority wanted to manage a US$1.3 billion loan, US$1.0 billion deposit, and US$0.7 billion swap portfolios and automate the administration of debt and inter-company simplify governance and compliance, gain real-time financial visibility, improve risk management, loans, and cut reporting times. The challenge was to manage a three-fold increase...
Chicago Public Schools wanted to upgrade the school district's existing Oracle enterprise resource planning system to gain new functionality and enable the system to scale for future growth under extreme budgetary and staffing constraints due to the current economy and review and reduce the system's more than 100 customizations for...
John Meyer of The Open Group sent some detailed dispatches from the group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference, being held this week in Toronto. Thanks to John for a great job summarizing many of the key insights coming from the conference -- some highlights from day one are summarized below:...
Sustainability: More Capitalist Than Jack Welch?SickThese corporate types are all sick. There is so such more to life than corporate growth, power, and big paycheck,Listening to corporate types scheme can make you sick to the stomach too.RE: Sustainability: More Capitalist Than Jack Welch?Isn't Jack Welch the guy who started...
EU's Intel ruling: Are there intangible benefits for AMD?Why?The average American be it in business or elsewhere usually knows little and/or cares less about what people/companies do. Besides, they are probably more worried about if they are employed next week rather than being overly concerned with Intel, AMD or the...
Why health reform remains possibleFrank LuntzThis speaks volumeshttp://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009051907/secret-right-wing-strategy-health-care-exposedPDF - http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/frank-luntz-the-language-of-healthcare-20091.pdfWhat socialized healthcare.....Nothing is free, and when you get through socializing the entire US economic system into a Government ran quagmire with Trillions of dollars of debt with an endless array of red tape.Wake me up when this nightmare is over...
As many of you know, the federal government has made buying IT equipment that meets the screening requirements of the EPEAT list a priority. (But not a mandate. Yet.) According to reports submitted with the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive, 13 out...
The Treasury is the New Zealand Government's lead advisor on economic and financial issues. The agency helps to manage the financial affairs of the New Zealand Government. Its goal is to improve living standards for all New Zealanders. The Treasury needed a more flexible working environment. Earlier technologies did not...
Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in GoldmanPat Leach wrote this story in 2006In "Why Can't You Just Give Me the Number?" (p. 55) by Patrick Leach, the Goldman approach to risk was highlighted as a best practice. To be fair, Pat couldn't have written this exact story in 06, but...
Organisations exhibit patterns in their choice of treasury organisation models. Two important dimensions for which these choices differ are the range of activities covered by the treasury and the extent of centralisation of management control. Key factors that impact the choice of model adopted are the primary motive for the...
A slew of market factors are forcing banks and other financial institutions to reexamine their Treasury business and technology strategies to better meet and exceed the requirements of internal and external customers. One believes that there are five critical trends in the marketplace which are forcing this change and banks...
Established by Congress in 1789, the US Department of the Treasury is responsible for promoting prosperous and stable American and world economies. Its mission includes managing the U.S. government's finances and financial systems, which is the responsibility of one of its bureaus, the Financial Management Service. The challenge was to...
The Department of Treasury and Finance provides policy advice to the Victorian Government on economic, financial and resource management, supporting the delivery of its financially responsible and socially progressive policy platform. The Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance DTF sought to obtain an accurate picture of end-to-end system performance to...
UBH Group wanted to manage effective consolidation of the business in response to the group's major growth in recent years and centralize administration of the group's diverse businesses with a single Enterprise Resource Planning ERP solution. The challenge was to provide an easily customized solution to manage the changing financial...
Please, give me a few billion, pretty pleaseThis is a tough callI say Yes to the handout to keep the many, many thousands of people who work for GM and it's affiliates employed. I say No to giving my tax dollars to a mega-corporation who can't manage its money,...
Schott Pharmaceutical Packaging Colombia is a glass manufacturing company, affiliated to Schott Group whose headquarters are located in Germany. Schott offers materials, components and special systems for in the industries of household appliances, optics, electronics, pharmaceuticals and renewable energies. Due to the business challenges that Schott faced, it was necessary...
Car chase: Chrysler CIO to run treasury dep't.It sort of makes sense.Considering that Accounting uses some of the most expensive and time consuming IT systems, and they usually work extremely close on IT projects across a variety of departments. Maybe it will work or it will be a failure that...
Hamilton is simple United States Savings Bond management for Mac OS X. Get organized and always know how much your US Series I and EE Savings Bonds are worth. Hamilton can download the very latest value files from the US Treasury so you know how much your Savings Bonds are...
Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's prostitute scandal is all the big news here in New York, but the lesser known tale is how an information system--the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network--played a role in his downfall. On the surface, Spitzer's downfall is a New York...
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