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A new survey found many companies are taking a wait-and-see approach to U.S. tariffs, although the vast majority are now ...
Suppose a company with an ICR-based loan covenant determines that the factors which cause the greatest uncertainty for its ICR are sales of a particular product (Product X) and the cost of steel.
Aside from Covid-19, risks are growing in number and complexity, and identifying and managing myriad exposures takes an all-hands-on-deck mentality. In a risk-aware corporate culture, risk management ...
The ongoing debate about financial regulatory reform and the looming European debt crisis are two dominant themes in Treasury & Risk 's 100 Most Influential People in Finance list this year. The 2012 ...
The Corona Crash of 2020 (as February and March will likely become known) broke a number of records. U.S. stock markets declined at the fastest rate in history; the S&P 500 index fell by 30 percent in ...
Instant Insights Instant Insights / Treasury in the Time of Coronavirus The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown treasury teams around the world into a tailspin. From liquidity concerns to supply-chain ...
A higher market capitalization reduces a company's debt-to-equity ratio, which increases the likelihood of achieving an investment-grade credit rating (see Figure 1). Higher share prices can also ...
At Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), passage of the Affordable Care Act required immediate action on the part of many business units, including the treasury team. Executives anticipated that the ...
Key risk indicators (KRIs) play a crucial role in treasury risk management by providing timely alerts on a company's changing risk exposures. For treasury risk events—such as counterparty defaults, ...
Climate risk shares a number of characteristics with a pandemic. One is that corporate finance and risk executives have little control over either. Another is that both types of risk can be ...
IP Theft in the Headlines Companies face substantial losses as a result of IP theft. The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property estimates that annual costs from IP losses range from ...