AI agents could gradually change how corporate treasurers manage cash, reducing the inertia that keeps large balances in low-yielding bank accounts and putting pressure on banks’ deposit funding.
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The Fed and ECB have both hiked, the Bank of England held on a 6-3 split, and equities hit record highs, all against a backdrop of sticky inflation, ongoing conflict and tightening liquidity that points to rates staying higher for longer.
Markets remain focused on rising oil prices and their impact on interest rates. Brent crude has climbed above $90 as tensions in the Gulf region intensify, reversing expectations of slower rate hikes following weaker-than-expected US jobs and wage data.
Following a split FOMC vote and stubborn inflation, Nigel Owen and Glen Stone explain why the market is now leaning toward a September hike rather than a cut.
Kevin Cook explains the founding principles behind TreasurySpring's One+ product and the non-negotiable rules, like never selling products the founders wouldn't buy themselves, that have guided the platform since day one.
Richard Draper explains how TreasurySpring has opened up the multi-trillion-dollar repo market, previously reserved for large banks, to a much wider range of cash investors through secured short-term cash products.
Kevin Cook traces his own confusion the first time he encountered the term 'repo' back in 2006, and uses it to explain why the repo market is such a fundamental, if poorly understood, building block of finance.
Henry Adams surveys a busy run-up to year end, from cooling US-China trade tension to a shift in Japanese politics, and what it all means for the odds of further rate cuts.
Glen Stone looks at the familiar year-end scramble as banks trim balance sheets to stay within regulatory buffers, and why treasurers should avoid being too reliant on counterparties who might turn away cash at year-end.
Kevin Cook explains the founding principles behind TreasurySpring's One+ product and the non-negotiable rules, like never selling products the founders wouldn't buy themselves, that have guided the platform since day one.
TreasurySpring teams up with Eurex and Clearstream to give corporate treasurers direct access to centrally cleared repo markets that were previously the preserve of wholesale banks.
The Fed cut rates 25bp, but Powell's comment that a December cut isn't a foregone conclusion was enough to knock market expectations for a follow-up cut down sharply.
Henry Adams notes markets staying broadly optimistic despite mixed signals, as a fragile Middle East truce holds and US-China tensions flare up over rare earths and, oddly, cooking oil.
In a Private Equity International keynote, Kevin Cook makes the case for why cash management now belongs at the center of PE operational strategy rather than on the sidelines.
Henry Adams notes markets staying firmly risk-on as the summer lull ends, with sterling and the euro both gaining against a weaker dollar - a reminder that inflation risk isn't only coming from tariffs.
The FOMC cut rates 25bp with a wider spread of dot-plot views than usual, as Henry Adams and Nigel Owen weigh cooling wage growth against inflation that remains well above target.
Henry Adams runs through the White House's final tariff list country by country and argues markets are simply in a holding pattern until the next shoe drops.
