Corporate Cashflow Magazine articles from October 1991

Corporate Cashflow Magazine archives from October 1991

Dual tranches split the pie among investors. (Trends )
October 1, 1991... The globalized financial markets, combined with large pools of available investment money overseas, are drawing more U.S. companies to raise capital abroad. Raising equity overseas always has been easy for large, well-known multinational...

More loan rates tied to borrower's financial performance. (Trends)
October 1, 1991... The number of syndicated bank loans with rates tied to the financial performance of the borrower is rising as banks seek to protect frail bottom lines. While this trend may be bad news for a company on the skids, it can be a win-win...

NCCMA staff grows: changes name, address, editors. (National Corporate Cash Management Association)(Trends)
October 1, 1991... Big changes are transforming the National Corporate Cash Management Association (NCCMA). After moving from Newtown, CT, to Washington, DC, earlier this year and replacing most of its fairly new professional staff, the association is about to...

Plan sponsors see complications in simplification laws. (pension plans)(Trends)
October 1, 1991... Pension simplification legislation--theoretically a motherhood and apple pie issue-could wind up costing employers both money and goodwill among employees. Some firms may want to try to influence the new legislation before it is too...

On-site care could help companies slash medical costs. (Trends)
October 1, 1991... The company doctor, popular among industrial firms years ago, is back in vogue as companies discover that on-site care can help check escalating medical costs. "Every time an employee uses [on-site-treatment], you can knock one-third off...

Automating receivables: getting ready to 'run dual.' (includes related article) (Cover Story)
October 1, 1991... Wouldn't it be nice if financial electronic data interchange (EDI) were the norm for corporate payments? Getting paid would be quick and certain. Each payment would arrive linked to the information that told you exactly what was being paid....

Will your banks clear the bar? The stakes get higher as some falter. (treasury management) (includes related article)
October 1, 1991... As banks disappear in an eventful era, treasury managers review their exposure to the risks of banking disruptions. Poof! Another bank just vanished as an operating entity, its business absorbed by a successor bank, frozen by the FDIC...

Turn data deluge into managed information flow.
October 1, 1991... In today's fast-paced cash managment world, information is money and money is information. Poor management of one results in poor management of the other. While too much cash rarely is a problem, too much information can overwhelm a...

Keep short-term investments on the right track.
October 1, 1991... The world of corporate cash investments, like so many other things, is often not quite as simple as it seems. "Optimum yield," for example, is not quite the same as "maximum yield," and "investment risk" may not lie entirely in the...

Bound for the efficient frontier: sophisticated techniques pull pension portfolio performance.
October 1, 1991... It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. These words of Charles Dickens describe the experience of defined benefit pension plans in the 1980s. Investment performance, especially in the securities markets, was extraordinary....

ANSI task group pushes breakthrough in reporting standards. (American National Standards Institute)
October 1, 1991... Ask most bankers if they "do EDI" and they will say, "Of course!" But closer inquiry is likely to reveal that their EDI is limited to accepting payment orders and executing them through the automated clearing house (ACH) or receiving...

Factoring manager experience into the risk equation. (Basis Points) (Column)
October 1, 1991... Edward is memorable for several reasons: he once shot an incredible hole-in-one, truly a sports feat; he introduced me to white Bar-B-Q sauce, truly a taste treat, and he caused me to be caught in a howling tornado, truly a natural bummer....

Banking reforms hit target, miss bull's-eye. (Washington Watch) (Column)
October 1, 1991... There is a growing sense in Washington that emerging banking reform legislation will be superficial, the benefits to bankers and their corporate customers, short lived. "None of the reforms being talked about address the difficulty in...

Time Warner's botched offering teaches lessons. (Capital Ideas) (Column)
October 1, 1991... Any doubts about the growing power of institutional investors as corporate shareholders have been obliterated by the recent defeat of a proposed rights offering from Time Warner. Shareholders forced the company to offer a better deal. ...