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Unlocking Value in Private Equity: Treasury Optimization as the Strategic Lever in the New Era of Operational Value Creation
In the high-stakes world of private equity, where the pressure to deliver exceptional returns is relentless, the playbook is evolving. Gone are the days when financial engineering—relying
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Transfer Pricing Compliance with Zanders Transfer Pricing Suite: Royal Philips Case Study
Zanders Transfer Pricing Suite is an innovative, cloud-based solution designed for companies looking to automate the Transfer Pricing compliance of financial transactions. With over five years
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Crypto Asset Exposures: Critical Assessment of Infrastructure Risks
This paper offers a straightforward analysis of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's standards on crypto asset exposures and their adoption by 2025. It critically assesses
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Greenwashing in Finance: Navigating the Shades of Sustainability
In recent years, consumers’ and investors’ interest in sustainability has been growing. Since 2015, assets under management in ESG funds have nearly tripled, the outstanding value of
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Biodiversity risks and opportunities for financial institutions explained
In this report, biodiversity loss ranks as the fourth most pressing concern after climate change adaptation, mitigation failure, and natural disasters. For financial institutions (FIs), it
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Blockchain-based Tokenization for decentralized Issuance and Exchange of Carbon Offsets
Carbon offset processes are currently dominated by private actors providing legitimacy for the market. The two largest of these, Verra and Gold Standard, provide auditing services, carbon
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The 2023 Banking Turmoil
Early October, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) published a report[1] on the 2023 banking turmoil that involved the failure of several US banks as well as Credit Suisse. The
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Driving Treasury Innovation: A Closer Look at SAP BTP
The SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) is not just a standalone product or a conventional module within SAP's suite of ERP systems; rather, it serves as a strategic platform from SAP,
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How to connect with local banks in Japan?
Treasurers dealing with multiple jurisdictions, scattered banking landscape, and local requirements face many challenges in this regard. Japan is one of the markets where bank connectivity
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Performance of Dutch banks in the 2023 EBA stress test
Seventy banks have been considered, which is an increase of twenty banks compared to the previous exercise. The portfolios of the participating banks contain around three quarters of all EU
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Zanders listed on Swift Customer Security Programme (CSP) Assessment Providers directory
The CSP helps reinforce the controls protecting participants from cyberattack and ensures their effectivity and that they adhere to the current Swift security requirements. *Swift does not
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Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain: Navigating Risk, Compliance, and Future Opportunities in Corporate Treasury
As a result of the growing importance of this transformative technology and its applications, various regulatory initiatives and frameworks have emerged, such as Markets in Crypto-Assets
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Grip on your EVE SOT
Over the past decades, banks significantly increased their efforts to implement adequate frameworks for managing interest rate risk in the banking book (IRRBB). These efforts typically focus
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Boosting MVA Calculation efficiency: the power of GPU computing
With recent volatility in financial markets, firms need increasingly faster pre-trade and risk calculations to react swiftly to changing markets. Traditional computing methods for these
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Debt Market Update Q4-2024
Since the start of Q4 2024, rates were cut by both the ECB (75bps) and the Fed (50bps). Both EU Loan and bond volume saw a YoY increase of 53% and 57%, respectively, with Sustainability Linked Loan
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Debt Capacity Analysis: A guide to demonstrating the arm’s length principle in debt financing
At A Glance: • Today’s tax regulations place a bigger emphasis on debt capacity tests, which when combined with rigorous tax audits, pose a significant risk for multinational enterprises
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A new IRRBB Roadmap for Knab
After a prolonged period of stable low (and at points even negative) interest rates, 2022 saw the return of rising rates, prompting Dutch digital bank, Knab, to appoint Zanders to
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The EBA’s new IRRBB heatmap implementation: reporting on key objectives
The implementation update covers observations, recommendations and supervisory tools to enhance the assessment of IRRBB risks for institutions and supervisors.1 Main topics include
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Intra-group Loan Transfer Pricing: What’s new in 2025?
Over the past year, the interest rates on intercompany financial transactions have come under closer examination by tax authorities. This intensified scrutiny stems from a mix of
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Introducing Our New Partner: Driving Growth and Innovation in the DACH Region
At Zanders, we are proud to announce the promotion of Tobias Westermaier as our newest partner. With a rich background in Corporate Finance and Treasury, he brings a wealth of experience and a
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Insights into XVA Calculations: how to harness the power of neural networks
Introduction: Faster, smarter, and future-proof In the fast-paced financial industry , speed and accuracy are paramount. Banks are tasked with the complex calculation of XVAs
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Enhancing Financial Risk Management in Corporate Treasuries
Zanders and ION held a webinar designed to address critical aspects of financial risk management. Led by industry professionals, this session provided actionable approaches to managing risk in
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Unlocking Value Through Foreign Exchange (FX) Risk Management: A Blueprint for Private Equity
In the high-stakes world of Private Equity (PE), where exceptional returns are non-negotiable, value creation strategies have evolved far beyond financial engineering. Today, operational
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Empowering Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders to take control of FX uncertainty
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders is an international humanitarian organization, best known for their medical assistance in conflict zones and in countries affected
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2025 The A-Z of Corporate Treasury Training - The Virtual Classroom
An in-depth introduction to the corporate treasury function in international markets
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