ESG is Now at the Top of the List
After years of being considered a “nice to have”, ESG has arrived as one of the top imperatives for companies, investors, employees, communities, and shareholders. Quote of the Week: “At this point, anyone’s personal opinion of ESG is largely irrelevant. If you want to raise capital, attract investors, hire the best talent, compete for clients, […]
Sycamore Highlights ESG and Risk Frameworks
Winifred Pinet and Marcia Banks recently presented to senior executives on Risk and Resilience: Boards Grapple with a Changing World. The presentation focused on corporate risk frameworks, emerging considerations around gaps in corporate ESG reporting and risk considerations, and recommended steps to bolster current risk practices.
Sycamore Presents Dealer Tire for Client Insight
Winifred Pinet recently provided a Client Insight Moment as a guest presenter for a JPMorgan Chase Innovation Summit. Chris Anderson, Senior Treasury Manager from Dealer Tire, provided direct client experience for insights around leveraging technology to transform Treasury.
Sycamore Client Panel Featured at Northern Ohio AFP Fall Meeting
Winifred Pinet moderated a client panel: “Invoice Automation: Implementation during the Pandemic” featuring the invoice automation team at Dealer Tire, LLC composed of Paul DeSiero, Assistant Treasurer, Michael Ricciardi, Director, Accounting, Jennifer Weinberg, Sr. Manager, Accounting, and Chris Anderson, Sr. Manager, Treasury. The team gave insights on their experience and successful rollout, together with some […]
Sycamore Presented Session on Risk and Resilience
Winifred Pinet and Marcia Banks presented a session on Risk and Resilience for the Northern Ohio AFP Idea Exchange in September 2020. Key themes included the linkage of global risk factors with credit markets, the outlook for 2021, and changing investor risk tolerances and appetites.
Sycamore Associates to present at Northern Ohio AFP 2020 Idea Exchange
We are delighted to be selected to present at the first-ever Virtual Idea Exchange. Northeast Ohio AFP has repositioned the annual Idea Exchange as an online event for 2020. It will take place Monday, September 21 from 9 am to 3 pm. https://www.northernohioafp.org/page/2020ixschedule The Wild Ride, Part One: Capital Markets so far in 2020 (and […]
The Case for ESG Reporting: Beyond Compliance
Increasingly, ESG is a place to quantify important principles, initiatives, and actions (Diversity, vision, inclusion, efficiency, climate, governance) that will differentiate companies to many stakeholders (communities, employees, investors, customers) This is valuable to attract and retain the best talent, the best access to capital, and increasingly, the most advantageous investor, customer, and brand landscapes […]
Justice for All
“At critical moments, powerful flashpoints shine a stark, unforgiving, and incendiary light that brings focus to change we must produce, injustice we must redress, and systems we must fundamentally reform. The tragic killing of George Floyd constitutes such a flashpoint, laying bare the racial disparities that operate within our criminal justice system. Unfortunately, that system […]
“The time is out of joint” Reflections on our Current State
The time is out of joint, O curs’ed spite, That ever I was born To set it right Shakespeare, Hamlet We can all relate to Hamlet’s frustrated cry of despair at the state of the world this week. Hamlet was distraught over the politics of Denmark, but we experience the world in a whole […]
Intersections: Do you Understand the Regulatory, Social and Investor Pressures Forming Around ESG Compliance?
Winifred Pinet was featured guest speaker for Detroit Rotary in November. Her topic was “Intersections: Regulatory, Social, Employee and Investor Pressures are Moving the Needle for Sustainable Business Practices”. The discussion revolved around ESG reporting requirements, trends in hiring and retaining the best talent, investor pressures for sustainable business practices, and the proven benefits for all stakeholders when better […]