Risk and Extreme Weather Preparedness: Are You Ready?
Among the many emerging areas for risk assessment, as we navigate our increasingly complex and interconnected world, is a company’s exposure to extreme weather events. These events are occurring with greater frequency (witness the North American Midwest experiencing “100-year floods” roughly every other year in the past 10 years) and we should expect that trend […]
What are our Clients doing in this Volatile Market?
We have been thinking about volatility almost every day lately. The uncertainty underpinning trade policy, geopolitical alliances, investment strategy, rising or lowering rates, and the overall economy has revealed itself in a volatile equity market throughout the first half of 2019. This has come with a tightening in the credit climate, rising rates, and a […]
Sycamore Selected to Present again at National AFP Conference
We had a great time at AFP 2018, November 5th, in Chicago. We presented a panel of our clients discussing Building Resilient Treasury: Managing Climate, Currency, and Commodity Risk. We were delighted that our session was selected from over 600 proposals! We curated a discussion with Kevin Beck (Assistant Treasurer, The Timken Company), Lynda Henry […]
Winifred Pinet Presented at Northern Ohio AFP Conference 2018
On September 17th , 2018, Win Pinet co-presented a session entitled Making Working Capital Work for You at the Northern Ohio AFP Idea Exchange. The session covered tools and tricks for Treasury professionals to transform working capital management from mechanical and transactions-focused to analytical and strategic. Mark Webster from Treasury Strategies co-presented, and treasury professionals […]
Northern Ohio Association for Financial Professionals Idea Exchange
Winifred Pinet has been invited to present two sessions at the Northern Ohio Association for Financial Professionals Idea Exchange on September 21, 2015. She will present on “Capital Structure: From Event-Driven to Strategic” and a second session on “International Treasury Consolidation: How to Navigate a Changing Landscape and Drive Value”. More information is available at […]
What we’ve been up to… May 2015
Winifred Pinet presented at the Association of Financial Professionals national conference in November 2014. The topic, “Capital Structure: from Event to Strategy” included commentary from Matthew Bittner, VP of Finance and Strategy at Dealer Tire, and from Marcia Banks. The presentation will be extracted in an upcoming issue of The Exchange. Win also served as […]
What we've been up to… April 2015
Marcia will be chairing roundtable discussions at two upcoming events: Middle Market Roundtable hosted by PNC on April 15 focused on the lending market for mid-corporate companies and including structuring trends, impact of leveraged lending guidelines and risk appetite for credit among lenders. Attendees include some 25-30 senior risk managers from 12+ US banks. The […]
What to Make of the Brave New World of Non-Bank Lending?
Against the backdrop of press surrounding the proposed, debated restructuring of the banking industry, and especially the considerations around what businesses banks could and should be undertaking or could profitably undertake (reflecting two views there: regulator and shareholder), we thought it made sense to discuss the emerging role of the non-bank lenders in the marketplace […]
The 80% Solution
Time and again, as we discuss projects that clients have asked us to help them accomplish, we hear that nothing can ever change, and the client cannot possibly do anything differently, because: IT won’t support us, Accounting cannot change the chart of accounts, Payables cannot contact customers in a different way, Receivables cannot identify customers […]
Lending Markets: Laissez les bons temps roulez… and for how long….?
Most of our corporate clients know that the markets for credit have been gaining strength since 2010. As we turned the corner to 2014 the market was very borrower-friendly, but as we look ahead to 2015 there are some clouds on the horizon that are primarily regulatory and have more to do with bank capital […]