Lisa Pollina

Nov 7, 2024 | treasuryandrisk.com | Meg Waters |Eric Huttman |Lisa Pollina

When General Electric announced in 2021 that it would be separating into three businesses—GE HealthCare, GE Aviation, and GE Vernova—the new companies' treasury teams faced a huge amount of work. Historically, core treasury activities had been centralized within GE corporate, but each of the divested companies would need its own treasury organization, optimized to serve the needs of its business.

Nov 5, 2024 | treasuryandrisk.com | Meg Waters |Eric Huttman |Lisa Pollina

Hitachi, Ltd. is one of the world's largest conglomerates. The company operates approximately 600 entities in more than 70 countries, providing customers with IT solutions, energy and transportation systems, and a wide array of other products ranging from mass-produced industrial equipment to home appliances to highly specialized tools such as electron microscopes custom-built for use in semiconductor manufacturing.

Aug 15, 2024 | treasuryandrisk.com | Eric Huttman |Lisa Pollina |Alice Atkins |Jenny Surane

After a period of relative stability in the foreign exchange (FX) market for much of the first half of this year, currency volatility is rising from a very low base level due to a number of factors. For one thing, more than half of the world's population is going to the polls in 2024, making this one of the most geopolitically active years we've seen in decades. When French President Emmanuel Macron called for a snap election in June, the euro dropped to a two-year low against the pound.

May 29, 2024 | feeds.feedblitz.com | Lisa Pollina

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May 23, 2024 | treasuryandrisk.com | Meg Waters |Lisa Pollina

Turmoil hit the midmarket banking sector a little more than a year ago, leading to the collapse of several banks and corporate trepidation about the risks their banking counterparties pose. Today, the sector has largely stabilized. Still, as the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) found late last year, many treasury teams are moving their cash away from bank deposits and into T-bills and government or Treasury money-market funds (MMFs).