Working capital & funding

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  • automotive sector
  • ESG
  • inventory
September 14th 2021

Treasurers fight working capital hit from semiconductor shortage

Hit by a global shortage of computer chips, carmakers such as Ford are using treasury skills to...
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July 20th 2021

Defence manufacturing giants accelerate payments to suppliers

Emergency US government support has transformed the working capital picture for the country's defence...
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June 29th 2021

Retail giants digitise inventory, build cash piles amid supply chain squeeze

Surging customer demand in the US has created supply chain bottlenecks, but US big box retailers...
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  • DPO
  • DSO
  • inflation
  • receivables factoring
June 8th 2021

Consumer goods giants sell receivables to support customers

Coca Cola, Mondelez and Archer Daniel financed an additional $1.3 billion of receivables via receivable...
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  • commercial paper
  • Covid-19
  • liquidity
  • RCF
November 3rd 2020

Securing liquidity in a crisis

Food retailers and software companies may have fared better than others during the Covid-19 crisis...
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  • bankruptcy
  • corporate bonds
  • high yield
  • restructuring
October 16th 2020

Down and up in the high yield market

Whether their companies escaped default or not, treasurers have had a busy year.
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  • Covid-19
  • Hedging
  • International 2020
  • liquidity
  • revolving credit facilities
October 13th 2020

The eye of the storm

A new elite of battle-tested treasurer has been forged in the sectors worst hit by the pandemic...
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  • accounts payable
  • accounts receivable
  • cash conversion cycle
  • consumer goods
  • inventory
September 1st 2020

Consumer goods giants grow inventory, extend receivables amid Covid-19 shift

Working capital for consumer goods multinationals reached a 5-year record high of $38 billion in...
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  • corporate bonds
  • Covid-19
  • liquidity
August 3rd 2020

When the going gets tough

After the pandemic sent shockwaves through funding markets in March, corporates scrambled to secure...
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  • corporate bonds
  • dividends
  • ECB
  • Federal Reserve
  • quantitative easing
  • share buybacks
July 7th 2020

The great corporate bond rush

Following the quantitative easing playbook of the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve has...