Corporate Cashflow Magazine articles from September 1992

Corporate Cashflow Magazine archives from September 1992

Strategic pairings uncork blessings for investors, issuers. (Trends)
September 1, 1992... Choosing your company's stockholders instead of letting them choose you can help increase the stock price and reduce volatility, investor relations specialists say. Finding and courting institutional investors with strategies that are...

Innovators try shells, Euro-placement to float smaller IPOs. (initial public offerings) (Trends)
September 1, 1992... Tight credit may prompt some middle-market companies to consider the difficult step of going public. The path to a public listing is getting shorter and smoother as enterpreneurs, stock exchanges and the Securities and Exchange Commission work...

Good while it lasted? FASB takes aim at accounting tactic. (Trends)
September 1, 1992... A new exposure draft from the Financial Accounting Standards Board threatens the accounting and tax benefits of loss portfolio transfers by narrowing the definition of reinsurance and tying it more closely to risk transfer. A familiar tool...

Managing payment system risk: to keep financial protection unbroken, coordinate safety plans with banks. (Cover Story)
September 1, 1992... Rapidly changing technology, an uncertain regulatory environment, a banking system undergoing restructurings and consolidations, evolution of trading partner relationships and concern over natural and man-made disasters. These are just...

To stop an ACH thief. (automated clearinghouse) (Cover Story)
September 1, 1992... Recently a thief came within a hair's breadth of stealing $70 million by delivering a bogus ACH tape to a major West Coast bank. The thief beat the bank's security system and was on the verge of retiring to a Caribbean island--one he bought...

Treasur-ring. (experts respond to questions related to corporate treasury management)
September 1, 1992... Real answers to real questions as treasury pros discuss whether bank custodial accounts offer cost-effective safekeeping and which software works best with swaps portfolios. The following discussions are a result of Treasur-Ring, a...

Foreign securities offer range of maturities, liquidity, credit quality. (Basis Points) (Column)
September 1, 1992... This guide to major Euromarket and foreign government securities picks up where we left off last month. The European currency unit (ECU) is a composite currency, representing a "basket" of European currencies that are given their relative...

Offerings go under wraps as equity market turns cold. (Capital Ideas) (Column)
September 1, 1992... Windows of opportunity sometimes don't stay open long if the address is Wall Street. A long winter of bear-market hibernation for new equity issues (sleeping off the hangover of the excessive '80s and waiting out the stubborn recession that so...

Greater stockholder rights challenge corporate management. (Washington Watch) (Column)
September 1, 1992... The corporate board room may soon be a busier place. Shareholders, long kept outside management's decision-making loop, may finally get a chance not only to speak but to do so collectively. A proposal by the Securities and Exchange...

Build your own economical treasury system. (Treasury Technology) (Column)
September 1, 1992... One of the mainstream activities of treasury management is developing appropriate treasury systems. In the mid-1980s, software vendors and banks launched the treasury workstation. Originally elaborate and expensive, these workstations were...