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February 17th 2020
Tech giants boost cash holdings to record high
Cash holdings at Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook increased to a five-year high.

December 3rd 2019
Bringing it all back home
Corporate cash piles have become a byword in recent years. But prompted by tax reform, fear of trapped...

December 2nd 2019
US companies boost interest income with emerging market cash
Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola and IBM are earning high interest rates by holding treasury cash in emerging...

November 6th 2019
Tech giants boost money market fund holdings to record levels
The five biggest companies in the S&P 500 index increased money fund investments by 47% this year...

October 8th 2019
EuroFinance Awards: Harnessing technology
Machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation (RPA) enabled Microsoft...

October 1st 2019
EuroFinance Awards: Optimising cash forecasting
Like joint award-winner Pearson, Coca-Cola’s award acknowledges it breaking new ground in one...

September 18th 2019
Johnson & Johnson makes $15bn swap bet to boost income
Johnson & Johnson is following in the route of PayPal using derivatives to increase returns on cash...

September 3rd 2019
Treasurers at VW, PayPal and BMW find innovative ways to beat Europe’s negative interest rates
The prospect of increasingly negative deposit rates in European currencies highlights the steps...

July 31st 2019
Europe’s negative yield explosion
Investing in Europe’s bond markets is costly these days. Like oil, you have to pay a storage fee...

July 18th 2019
Onshore cash pools the legacy of Trump tax reform, report treasurers
18 months after the Trump administration’s tax reform, the trillion dollar reduction in US corporate...