Corporate Cashflow Magazine articles from March 1995

Corporate Cashflow Magazine archives from March 1995

Cash-heavy HMOs make employers eye their "big teeth." (health maintenance organizations)
March 1, 1995... The burgeoning cash reserves of many health maintenance organizations (HMOs) are causing treasury and benefits managers to wonder if they suffer from anemic negotiating skills. This new HMO "fat" may be a source of potential additional savings...

Electronic check presentment cuts fraud, speeds info.
March 1, 1995... Electronic check presentment (ECP), after hitting a mid-year plateau, appears poised for new growth in 1995, as bankers and corporate treasury managers seek to solve return-item problems. Electronic cash letters, which convert paper into...

Companies push purchasing cards for big-ticket use.
March 1, 1995... Large corporations, wary of purchasing cards a few years ago, now are raising spending limits and expanding applications to include the purchase of bigger-ticket items. Initially regarded as corporate Visa, Mastercard or American Express cards...

Banks lead surge in mezzanine lending.
March 1, 1995... "The secret behind mezzanine debt," explains Steven H. Brooks, managing director of the New York-based Brooks, Houghton & Co. Inc., "is learning to use it creatively so it fits the growth plans and business needs of a company." The...

Tap cost-savings current. (includes related article)
March 1, 1995... Are treasury managers getting all the available benefits of the automated clearing house? The facts say that they are not. Untapped savings remain in dividend payments, expense reimbursements and corporate tax and trade payments. Where can...

Paying dividends by ACH cuts costs, pleases shareholders. (automated clearing house)
March 1, 1995... Corporate America's drive to serve shareholders cost-effectively and shareholders' desire for prompt, convenient dividend payments have converged on the electronic payments frontier. By making payments through the automated clearing house (ACH),...

Customer deductions: hidden profit leaks. (includes related article)
March 1, 1995... There is a popular belief among suppliers that customers, especially retailers, have made a profit center out, of the deduction process. Revenue and profit dilution caused by late payments and customer deductions costs manufacturers many...

Securitizing receivables: when this financing fits. (includes related article)
March 1, 1995... Securitization is likely to continue its march down the balance sheet, touching assets that are less standard. In less than a decade, asset securitization has evolved from a financing tool used mainly by corporations that accumulate special...

Derivative settlements shed light on buyer, dealer responsibilities.
March 1, 1995... "Absent any misdirection or intentional misleading, there is really no excuse for a treasury manager not knowing what he bought, what the risks associated with that product are and what the costs are. That's his job," insists Robert Baldoni,...

Matching IR to your needs: from mechanics to brand-building. (investor relations)
March 1, 1995... Bruce Henderson, founder of Boston Consulting Group, used to say that a mature company needs, as its CEO, a caretaker. A growing company needs a risk taker, and a dying company an undertaker. The same rule applies to investor relations. IR is a...