Karen Kroll, Author at Global Finance Magazine

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Banking

Driving Change In Bank Relationship Management

SIBOS Supersection 2015 | Bank Relationship Management Basel III and other regulatory developments are causing a sea change in bank-corporate relationships. It is up to corporate treasurers to lead that process.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Treasury Workstations Build In Bank Fee Analysis

SIBOS Supersection 2015 | Bank Relationship Management Along with understanding the value they provide their banking partners, most companies want to know what they’re spending in banking fees each year, and how this compares to the contracted rates. Bank-fee analysis software can automate the process.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Global Payments | Enhancing Oversight On Expense Management

Special Report | Global Payments When it comes to enriching corporate card programs, the focus is on technologies and policies that can boost efficiency, visibility and controls.

Banking

Regional US Transaction Banks Walk A Fine Line

Special Report | U.S. Transaction Banking Dealing with the regulatory complexities faced by their larger peers and without some of the flexibility of their smaller brethren, US regional transaction banks are building international partnerships and investing in best-of-breed technology platforms in order to win, and hold on to, corporate clients.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CORPORATE METRICS | PROFITS ARE A STRONG PREDICTOR OF COMPANY HEALTH

Management | Metrics Corporations and analysts turn to scores of metrics—return on assets, working capital and others—to determine a company’s financial health. Another, the ratio of debt to internal funds, is one of the most widely used benchmarks. But a new study suggests that the debt-to-funds ratio isn’t all that accurate in predicting or explaining default risk.

Award Winners

NORTH AMERICA FACES CHALLENGES TO TRADE GROWTH

Market Analysis | Trade Finance The outlook for trade finance in North America appears modestly positive. “Growth will be more in line with global GDP,” says Chris Lewis, executive vice president and group head, international trade services, Wells Fargo.

Award Winners

DECLINING TRADE BARRIERS BOOST ASIAN DEMAND

Market Analysis | Supply Chain Finance Trade agreements, falling commodity prices, economic growth and Basel III are among the issues that are top of mind for many experts in banking and trade finance in Asia.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

OECD MOVES FORWARD ON BEPS TAX-AVOIDANCE PROJECT

Regulation | Management In October the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project released a report outlining its progress on a series of steps it was taking to combat tactics—often legal but ethically questionable—used by many multinational companies to reduce or eliminate tax liabilities across their operations.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

SIBOS 2014: SEEKING HOLISTIC SOLUTIONS

SIBOS SUPERSECTION 2014 | SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE New SCF solutions are offering a range of tools to help suppliers manage working capital and diversify funding sources.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

SIBOS 2014: ONE WORLDVIEW ON CASH & TRADE

SIBOS SUPERSECTION 2014 | CASH & TRADE CONVERGENCE As more companies focus on gaining visi-bility into both their physical and financial supply chains, banks and technology vendors are further integrating their cash management and trade solutions.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Life And Pensions Rebound

RISK MANAGEMENT By Karen Kroll Corporate life and pensions insurance is regaining strength as economic conditions improve. The US market for corporate- and bank-owned life insurance (COLI and BOLI, respectively) and corporate supplemental pension plansor top hat plansare once again ...

News

Tax Reform Improving Business Clime In Sub-Saharan African Countries

Many of the 19 Francophone countries of Sub-Saharan Africathat is, those whose citizens speak French and who were otherwise influenced...