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Cash management
Resilient treasury factors in a lengthy pandemic
Rapid changes to treasury strategy introduced in response to Covid-19 appear likely to endure as companies adjust to the pandemic having longer-term impact, the latest Economist Intelligence Unit survey suggests READ MORE -
Cash management
Digital treasury accelerates in Asia
Treasury digitisation across Asia was gaining traction even before Covid-19 struck, but the pandemic has accelerated the process. A recent Deutsche Bank webinar provided a progress report READ MORE
CURRENT EDITION
May 2020
FEATURED ARTICLES
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Trade finance
A Guide to Trade Finance
To mark Deutsche Bank’s 150 anniversary and Trade Finance being its founding business, we proudly present our Guide to Trade Finance, outlining the fundamental practices and rules critical to the trade finance industry’s ongoing functioning and future development READ MORE -
Securities Services
Planning for the people
India´s government aims to make the country a US$5trn economy by 2024. Janet Du Chenne talks to Sundeep Sikka about Nippon Life India Asset Management’s plans to harness the growth story through long-term savings plans and leveraging education and new technologies READ MORE -
Technology, Cash Management
From the engine room
Almost overnight, Deutsche Bank relocated more than 65.000 of its employees to working from home locations ahead of Covid-19 lockdown. flow reports on operational resilience and business continuity management READ MORE
DOSSIER Sustainable Finance
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Trade Finance, Companies
Sustainable latex from Cameroon
Allegations related to environmental and social issues in Halcyon Agri’s Cameroon rubber plantations attracted unwelcome headlines until they were addressed through its Corrie MacColl subsidiary. flow's Clarissa Dann reports on how sustainable finance is helping the firm set industry standards in rubber READ MORE -
Macro and markets, Dossier Covid-19
How ESG grew up during the pandemic
The Covid-19 crisis is refocusing the way investors view environmental, social and governance measures, reshaping their purely altruistic intentions towards performance based metrics. Corporates’ priorities have also changed since the pandemic began. flow’s Janet Du Chenne looks at the drivers of these shifts in attitudes and what shape ESG will take in the new normal READ MORE -
Trust and agency services
Renewable energy comes of age
Following the success of the blockbuster anti-cancer drug DARZALEX (daratumumab), Genmab is developing a pipeline of proprietary antibodies. Anthony Pagano, the Danish firm’s new CFO, tells flow’s Janet Du Chenne how the company’s US capital raising fits that strategy READ MORE
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TECHNOLOGY
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Technology
Tomorrow’s technology today
As organisations grow, so do their layers of legacy systems. In a world of instant payments and real-time treasury management, how can banks keep up? Clarissa Dann reports on how Deutsche Bank Corporate Bank is addressing this READ MORE -
Technology
Technology versus virus
Disruption caused by Covid-19 has pivoted the world towards technology to keep things moving. Given some technology trends will endure beyond the pandemic, flow ’s Janet Du Chenne examines how they could be managed to support a sustainable recovery READ MORE -
Technology
Balancing technology transfer
The We in Social Tech business accelerator, co-founded by Deutsche Bank’s corporate social responsibility Made for Good programme, has powered many fledgling businesses headed by female tech founders. Neil Jensen reports on their journey READ MORE
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PODCASTS
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Podcast
The Big ESG Idea: Defining the licence to operate
Gerald Podobnik, Head of Sustainability, Deutsche Bank Corporate Bank on viewing ESG as a strategic imperative READ MORE -
Podcast
Episode 4
The fourth episode features highlights from flow’s H1 2020 issue, including a cover story on how the spirit of innovation ensures business as usual in corporate treasury at Merck, and an exclusive interview with Honeywell’s Severine Le Blevennec on leading treasury transformation
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DOSSIER COVID-19
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Macro and markets, Dossier Covid-19
The Age of Disorder
The traumatic year we’re living through is destined for the history books but may also mark the end of a 40-year economic era, a move away from globalisaiton, and the start of a more volatile, uncertain period. flow’s Graham Buck assesses the evidence READ MORE -
Macro and markets, Dossier Covid-19
Covid-19: A new industrial policy for Europe
As the EU absorbs its €2.364trn pandemic support and rebuilds, how can the market forces/state intervention balance be managed to avert market failure? flow’s Clarissa Dann and Graham Buck review Deutsche Bank Research’s new paper on EU industrial policy READ MORE -
Macro and markets, Dossier Covid-19
World economic outlook: the patient’s progress
With a lengthy trek back to near-normal economic health, the Deutsche Bank Research new World Outlook report revises up projections of three months ago – but much depends on good news in 2021 about a vaccine: flow’s Graham Buck and Clarissa Dann report READ MORE
REGULATION
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Regulation, Cash management
Covid-19: Financial regulatory responses
As sectors across the economy attempt to bolster their resilience against the Covid-19 pandemic, regulators have been playing their part in keeping the wheels turning READ MORE -
Regulation, Cash management
Heavyweight assets?
The latest adjustment to the Basel framework overhauls the calculation of how much capital banks need to hold against each exposure. What impact will this have on their clients? Koen Holdtgrefe provides an update READ MORE -
Securities services
Regulating securities settlement
The settlement discipline regime, a key element of the Central Securities Depositories Regulation, has been delayed until 1 February 2021. Emma Johnson explains the changes required of market participants to meet their new post-trade obligations READ MORE
MACRO AND MARKETS
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Macro and markets, Dossier Covid-19
The Age of Disorder
The traumatic year we’re living through is destined for the history books but may also mark the end of a 40-year economic era, a move away from globalisaiton, and the start of a more volatile, uncertain period. flow’s Graham Buck assesses the evidence READ MORE -
Macro and markets, Dossier Covid-19
Covid-19: Race for a vaccine
With many economic forecasts assuming a Covid-19 vaccine is available by mid-2021 to assist recovery, can normal testing processes be accelerated? And who picks up the bill for liability claims? flow's Clarissa Dann and Graham Buck review recent development READ MORE -
Macro and markets, Covid-19
Kicking the can: who pays for Covid-19?
As cases of Covid-19 surge past 17 million, the global debt mountains that the pandemic expanded seem perpetually unscaleable. flow’s Clarissa Dann and Graham Buck take a closer look at how the rules of macroeconomics are being rewritten READ MORE
COMPANIES
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Trade finance, Companies
Sustainable latex from Cameroon
Allegations related to environmental and social issues in Halcyon Agri’s Cameroon rubber plantations attracted unwelcome headlines until they were addressed through its Corrie MacColl subsidiary. flow's Clarissa Dann reports on how sustainable finance is helping the firm set industry standards in rubber
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Cash management
Goodyear’s new tracks for cross-currency liquidity
Goodyear’s treasury team partnered with Deutsche Bank to introduce an automated cross-currency liquidity structure. flow explores how this new solution helps the treasury team reduce operational risk and bolster operational efficiencies READ MORE -
TRUST AND AGENCY SERVICES
Arrivals: New private financing model for Newark Airport ConRAC
flow looks at how an innovative model of private financing for consolidated rent-a-car facilities is set to provide numerous benefits to Newark airport, passengers and the rent-a-car industry READ MORE