Publications from Treasury Alliance Group

Treasury Alliance Partners and Directors author articles and presentations on cash, payments, risk, structures and technology.  A selection of their work is described below; copies can be downloaded in Adobe pdf format.

Cash

1. The Weakest Link: What to Do When Auctions Fail? by David Faller and Mark Webster. This is a reprint of a recent article on Auction Rate Securities appearing in International Treasurer. 64K pdf.
2. Pain in the ARS. This is a presentation to accompany the May 23 Webinar. 321K pdf.
3. Cash Management in China is an article written for the Asia Treasurer's Handbook (produced by the Association of Corporate Treasurers) that covers the key issues associated with management cash in China. 48K pdf.
4. Customer Information Programs and the USA Patriot Act provides the regulatory and institutional background surrounding the increased complexity of opening a bank account in the US following implementation of the USA Patriot Act. 26K pdf.
5. Integrating Treasury and Financial_Reporting deals with the differences between treasury and accounting data and the need to integrate the two. 205K pdf.
6. CTP Review - Chapters 15 and 16 contains the slides used in this CTP review presentation. 243K pdf.
7. China Treasury Handbook covers techniques, best practices and workings of the banking system in the PRC. 47K pdf.
8. Cash Pooling White Paper outlines the approaches and benefits of cash pooling. 125K pdf.
9. Supply Chain Diagnostic Concepts helps self-diagnose opportunities within the supply chain. 27K pdf.
10. The Value of Internal Cash shows how a focus on working capital management can be used to unlock cash reserves within business operations. 32K pdf.
11. Managing Treasury and Tax in Brazil offers logical tax and treasury strategies that make sense in the regulatory environment of Brazil. 50K pdf.
12. The Best Way to Find the Best Bank may not always be through an RFP. 50K pdf.
13. Five Steps to Excellence in Cash Forecasting outlines five key steps that can ensure excellence in cash forecasting. 19K pdf.
14. Supply Chain Glossary lists important supply chain management terms and their definitions. 47K pdf.

Payments

1. Check Conversion 101: ARC, BOC and POP. This is a presentation to accompany the April 11 Webinar. 616K pdf.
2. Download Enterprising Payments (651K pdf) and listen to the audio of the presentation (3,748K wma).
3. Download Check Truncation vs. Conversion (1,259K pdf) and listen to the audio of the presentation (3,168 wma).
4. Check Truncation versus Conversion deals with the differences between Check 21 and ARC. 769K pdf.
5. Payments as a Broken Market looks at payments from a strategic perspective and the challenges this presents to corporations and banks. 383K pdf.
6. Innovative Payments Techniques examines trends and key issues in payments. 1467K pdf.
7. Check 21 - A Corporate Perspective explains Check 21, its impact on the banking system and the issues it presents to corporations. 450K pdf.

Risk

1. NEW Disaster Recovery. This is a presentation to accompany the August 15 Webinar. 147K pdf.
2. Assessing Risk in Latin America discusses the environment in a number of countries and a general approach to risk management for the region. 52K pdf.
3. Control, Risk and Fraud contains the slides used by Mark Webster and Dan Blumen in their February 26 webinar. 438K pdf.
4. Fraud is a presentation given to the NEOTMA Idea Exchange covering trends and best practices in fraud for treasury professionals. 796K pdf.
5. The Patriot Act is a presentation given to the Tampa Bay AFP on the Act and its implications. 441K pdf.
6. Five Step Program to Risk Management Health outlines five simple steps that can provide a solid foundation for the overall corporate risk management process. 46K pdf.
7. Global Treasury Risks - and how to avoid them is a presentation given by Dan Blumen at TMANE 2007. 314K pdf.
8. Payments Risk Management is a presentation given by Mark Webster at the International Payments Institute. 146K pdf.
9. Treasury Management Dashboard is an example of a web-delivered flash report. 20K pdf.

Structures

1. Centralizing Latin Treasuries covers the key issues in treasury centralization in Latin America. 169K pdf.
2. Implementing a Regional Treasury Structure describes the reasons, issues and practical steps in implementing a regional treasury. 399K pdf.
3. Euro-Centralization Handbook offers an approach for the review (or the creation) of the optimal liquidity structure in Europe. 54K pdf.
4. Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance reviews compliance issues beyond Section 404 and the implications for Treasury. 62K pdf.
5. Cross Border Pooling: Notional vs. ZBA explains the technical and tax ramifications of the two most common forms of cross border pooling. 43K pdf.
6. Back to Basics - The Effect of Transfer Pricing describes the need for Treasury to be involved in transfer pricing strategies. 1,717K pdf.
7. Multilateral Netting outlines the objectives and operation of a multilateral netting system. 33K pdf.
8. Treasury Development Steps offers an eleven step approach for bringing about positive change within treasury. 30K pdf.

1. Treasury Automation helps readers assess automation requirements in view of current options. 80K pdf.
2. Cashflow Forecasting webcast presented by Treasury Alliance Group and DecisionPath Consulting. Download the a pdf version of the webcast slides. 412K pdf.
3. Cashflow Forecasting: Old Problem - New Solution is a White Paper that outlines the benefits applying Business Intelligence tools to the forecasting challenge. 133K pdf.
4. Benchmarks and Best Practices analyzes key findings from recent benchmarking studies. 338K pdf.
5. Treasury Systems benchmark report summarizes key findings on systems and staffing at multinational companies. 306K pdf.