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June 16th 2020
Johnson & Johnson gains $1bn from swap bet
The US healthcare giant entered into $20 billion of cross-currency swap trades last year to hedge...
May 29th 2020
Top S&P 500 companies added $81 billion of cash in Q1 2020
Big US companies drew down loans and built up Covid-19 cash war chests at the end of March.
May 12th 2020
US companies put liquidity before buybacks
As the COVID-19 pandemic bites, only US tech giants are able to keep buying back stock, as most...
March 30th 2020
Corporates boosted cash returns in 2019 while interest rates fell
Even before the Covid-19 crisis, short-term interest rates were falling. Using a combination of...
February 27th 2020
Freeing trapped cash in Africa
Restrictions in many African countries can make it difficult for treasurers to move cash to where...
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...