Cash management survey 2011: Cash gets central billing

As corporate executives make cash management an increasingly important part of their treasury function, so transaction banks are realigning their businesses. Now it is increasingly part of the overall corporate relationship. Laurence Neville looks at the models the leading banks are adopting.

Cash management survey 2011: Results index

Cash management:
Cash gets central billing
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Sibos conference:
Transaction bankers counter fears with opportunities
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TRANSACTION BANKING, THE process of facilitating buying and selling for companies and financial institutions, has never been the most glamorous of activities. To be sure, parts of the business might be able to claim romantic origins serving the merchants of Renaissance Italy while, at the same time, the contemporary industry is driven by the type of kit that is inevitably accompanied by hyperbole about bleeding-edge technology.