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Tax Reform Not Enough To Convince Corporates To Spend, AFP Finds

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. “The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act implementation could cause businesses to have extra capital to deploy, but it is even more encouraging that organizations expect to have cash on hand through the normal course of business in the coming year,” said TD Bank’s manager of treasury management sales, Tom Gregory, in a statement at the time.

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Treasurers Understand — But Aren’t Living Up To — Rising CFO Expectations

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A new report from treasury management technology firm Kyriba and CFO Research Services offered CFOs a chance to lay out their wish lists for their treasurer peers, with chief financial officers pushing the treasury function to embrace a more prominent role.

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Treasurers Choose Service Over Regulatory Ties When Picking A Bank

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New research from Asset Benchmark Research suggests ties with regulators and even reputation are not the number one priority for corporate treasurers looking for a cash management provider. Only 13 percent said they decreased the number of cash management solution providers with which they were working.

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Treasury Is Becoming More Strategic — And Treasurers Know It

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New research from the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) released Monday (May 22) found 80 percent of corporate treasurers agree the role has become more strategic in the last three years. The same amount of survey respondents also said the role of the treasury department will continue to devolve and become even more strategic.

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Tracking Treasurers’ Progress In Handling Greater Corporate Responsibilities

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In their Strategic Role of Treasury Survey , the AFP and Marsh & McLennan identified the forces pressing companies to shift the treasury department into a more strategic position. As corporates and the treasurers themselves examine the issue, a new report from Marsh & McLennan Cos.,

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Amid Market Changes, Treasurers Lean On Their Banks

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New research finds that nearly all corporate treasurers agree that their relationship with financial institutions is a key factor in determining which bank to work with and where to invest short-term cash. The findings were detailed in the latest 2016 AFP Liquidity Survey , underwritten by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA).

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