Corporate Cashflow Magazine articles from October 1990

Corporate Cashflow Magazine archives from October 1990

63% FDIC hike puts reward on tighter balance management. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.) (Cash Management)
October 1, 1990... 63% FDIC hike puts reward on tighter balance management The "bank failure tax" just went up 63%, and you can expect to get the bill for it in 1991. That's the largest-ever jump in the premium banks pay for FDIC insurance and then pass on...

Cash managers soon can zap dreaded account analyses. (Cash Management)
October 1, 1990... Cash managers soon can zap dreaded account analyses Electronic bank account analysis, which would let treasury managers monitor their bank charges carefully and eliminate costly bank errors, seems only a few months from becoming reality. A...

USPS compromises soften blow of slower mail delivery. (US Postal Service) (Cash Management)
October 1, 1990... USPS compromises soften blow of slower mail delivery The U.S. Postal Service does listen. That's what corporate and banking officials found when the USPS agreed to modify its proposed new postal delivery standards. While the standards are...

Lack of reserves dumps red ink on self-insurers. (Risk Management)
October 1, 1990... Lack of reserves dumps red ink on self-insurers Companies who began pursuing self-insurance a few years back as a hedge against rising insurance prices now are experiencing an ugly flipside--discovering they are under-reserved against losses....

Market highs trigger tactical adjustments in asset allocations. (Investment and Benefits)
October 1, 1990... Market highs trigger tactical adjustments in asset allocations When the Dow Jones industrial average flirted with the 3,000 level last July, some pension fund advisors began to sell off stocks on the theory shared by proponents of tactical...

Portfolio hedging emerges in new forms to shield investments. (Investment and Benefits)
October 1, 1990... Portfolio hedging emerges in new forms to shield investments Portfolio hedging, called in one of its earlier forms "portfolio insurance," is alive and well and performing better than its predecessor in recent volatile markets. "We see...

Changes in U.S. bank strength.
October 1, 1990... CHANGES IN U.S. BANK STRENGTH The following table, prepared for CASHFLOW by McCarthy, Crisanti & Maffei Inc., New York, identifies the 20 U.S. banks that showed the greatest improvement and the 20 showed the greatest deterioration during the...

High-tech twists in bank reporting. (Data banks)
October 1, 1990... High-tech twists in bank reporting Back in the Dark Ages of 1977, a group of progressive banks began to provide electronic balance reporting. The forward-thinking cash managers who signed on for the service used either a Texas Instruments...

Taming the EDI beast: guide to successful payment programs. (electronic data interchange)
October 1, 1990... Taming the EDI beast: guide to successful payment programs Catch 22 has ensnared the world of EDI and threatens to stall its progress unless some brave souls jump in and break the deadlock. Here's the "catch": too many potential...

Over the wall services: how banks are battling state-line barriers to develop interstate cash management services. (includes related article)
October 1, 1990... OVER THE WALL SERVICES How banks are battling state-line barriers to develop interstate cash management services Call it the wall. As everyone knows, cash doesn't stop at the state line. Corporate treasuries routinely collect and...

States are piling on the EFTax bandwagon. (electronic funds transfer for payment of taxes)
October 1, 1990... States are piling on the EFTax bandwagon As movement picks up speed, more corporations face choices of how to pay taxes electronically In 1987, Indiana fired the first shots in the latest tax revolution--by passing Public Law 92,...

The comparable-company approach: measuring the true value of privately held firms.
October 1, 1990... The comparable-company approach Measuring the true value of privately held firms You are a treasury manager for a privately held firm that needs to raise equity capital. Your company has two principal options: arrange a private...

Bank-VAN duo high-steps over those EDI blues. (value-added network, electronic data interchange)
October 1, 1990... Bank-VAN duo high-steps over those EDI blues Anyone who has implemented financial EDI will both appreciate its rewards and respect its complexities. The financial end of electronic data interchange typically requires twice as many...

Customer-initiated payments streamline collections. (Case in Point)
October 1, 1990... Customer-initiated payments streamline collections Innovative electronic collection systems are emerging that will make the phrase "the check is in the mail" and all the headaches it implies--late payments, incorrect amounts, lost...

Securities transaction tax looms as bitter pill. (Washington Watch) (column)
October 1, 1990... Securities transaction tax looms as bitter pill With the Gramm-Rudman clock ticking and time running out for the federal government to meet its annual deficit reduction targets, members of Congress and the Administration have begun to consider...

When equity markets die, creative financings bloom. (Capital Ideas) (column)
October 1, 1990... When equity markets die, creative financings bloom The Persian Gulf crisis has caused a crisis in the global financial markets, precipitating wild gyrations, mostly plunges, in stock markets around the world since the early August invasion of...

To gauge corporate cash returns, fed funds is best benchmark. (federal funds rate) (Basis Points) (column)
October 1, 1990... To gauge corporate cash returns, Fed funds is best benchmark "We will not tolerate any risk to our corporate cash!" The statement came from the gentleman seated to my left. I was in the board room, attending a meeting of the executive committee...