Citi’s Online Academy for Corporate and Public Sectors in Europe, Middle East and Africa
Previous Webinars Archive 2008
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The Payables Working Capital Environment and Tools for Optimal Performance
22 December 2008
As market uncertainty continues to challenge CFOs, Treasurers and Procurement Officers to lower costs, optimize resources and improve cash flow, organizations are looking to their financial supply chain to find some relief. This webinar discusses the common challenges faced by today's organizations and tools to extract value from the financial supply chain.
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Citi’s Online Academy: Liquidity Management during times of change
11 December 2008
Treasury challenges continue to grow. As well as market volatility, companies are now facing the challenges of an economic downturn. An effective framework for managing risks to liquidity, and effectiveness in accessing internal liquidity are key to maintaining operating flexibility.
At Citi, we’re working to broaden liquidity horizons. What frameworks should you consider in extracting and investing internal sources of liquidity? How do you measure progress towards liquidity efficiency and benchmark your results against peers? What new and emerging tools could you use to improve transparency, reduce cash leakage, and better manage liquidity risks?
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Citi’s Online Academy: Focus on AR for Funding During the Credit Crunch
26 November 2008
The emphasis on the collections cycle and DSO performance has never been more important - not only to shore up your company’s liquidity through internal sources of funds during the current challenging market conditions, but also to strengthen your company’s credit rating and thereby ease of accessing external sources of funds.
In this session we focus on the collections cycle and DSO performance and discuss some actionable steps to shore up your company’s liquidity through internal sources of funding.
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Citi’s Online Academy: Effective Liquidity Management in unpredictable times
25 September 2008
It is a challenging time. Continued volatility in credit markets and slow-down in the economy is making it imperative for treasurers to be effective in liquidity optimisation and safeguarding investment.
In this webinar, we will discuss ways to mobilise and optimise your company’s liquidity and deploy corporate cash. We will also share with you our own experience on the key challenges that treasurers face and our solutions, reviewing their implications on strategies for managing liquidity and investments effectively.
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Citi’s Online Academy: European Card Acquiring
26 June 2008
We see more and more companies shifting towards electronic channels in their overall receivables solutions. Within this trend, Card Acquiring has become in many cases a "must have" for every company. Citi’s next Webinar, "European Card Acquiring: Challenges, Trends and Drivers Facing Global and Multinational Businesses," will be focusing on Card Acquiring by analyzing the hot issues of this domain.
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Citi’s Online Academy: Faster Payments
10 June 2008
Tuesday, 27 May 2008 marked the successful launch of the UK’s new payments infrastructure, Faster Payments (FPS). Citi is one of the 13 founding members of Faster Payments and with this launch, a new set of payment capabilities (Single Immediate Payments, Standing Orders, Forward-dated Payments) are made available to our Corporate, Public Sector non-Bank FI clients.
In this Webinar, we will give you an update of the phased market roll out of the service and how Citi will be able to support you in benefiting from the new near real time infrastructure.
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Citi’s Online Academy: Doing Business in Japan
21 May 2008
Japan continues to be an exciting market for companies – it’s the centre of new trends and creativity and is a preferred testing ground for many new product launches. With world class innovation spanning every industry, continued economic growth and a strengthening currency increasing numbers of companies are doing business in Japan.
In this Webinar we will be discussing the economic trends in Japan including analysis pre and post the US subprime crisis. We will also consider the changing regulatory environment with the recent introduction of J-SOX and will present best practice solutions through relevant case studies.
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Citi’s Online Academy: China - Africa: the pathway to new opportunities
22 April 2008
With the continued globalisation of trade China is emerging as one of Africa’s biggest trading partners resulting in the highest levels of economic growth in Africa for over 30 years. At the same time Africa is experiencing a rise in foreign investment as multinational corporations see huge opportunities for growth and cushioning from the impact of decline in other markets. China’s newfound interest in trade and investment with Africa, home to 300 million of the globe’s people and the world's most formidable development challenge, presents a significant opportunity for growth and integration of the Sub-Saharan continent into the global economy.
This Webinar will discuss the driving factors behind Africa's rise as a global trading force, and how leading Chinese corporates are looking to strengthen their trading links with Africa.
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Citi’s Online Academy: Trends in Investments
26 March 2008
With ever increasing demands on a treasurers time, finding the resources to actively manage short term cash is challenging for treasury professionals. To get a picture of the short term investments market for 2008 and find out about best practice in liquidity and investments management, Citi’s Global Transaction Services Investment professionals will be joined by Treasury Strategies and Goldman Sachs Asset Management for a one hour session to look at the road ahead and tools for facilitating the investment process.
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Citi’s Online Academy: The Reality of e-Invoicing
5 March 2008
Electronic Invoicing could become the next wave of innovation in the transactional arena. Numerous studies have shown that paper invoice dematerialisation and process simplification can significantly reduce costs of handling invoices by up to 80%, which translates into €243bn of annual savings in Europe alone. Even if 10% or 1% can be realised, it is worth all the effort.
This Webinar explores opportunities and challenges that e-Invoicing presents for all key stakeholders - corporates, banks, public sector organizations. We will discuss current developments and trends in the evolving e-Invoicing market and will give an overview on the new European Commission e-Invoicing imitative aimed to create common Pan-European e-Invoicing framework.
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Citi’s Online Academy: SEPA: What Now? What next?
14 February 2008
The Single Euro Payments Area has become a reality following the successful launch of the new SEPA Credit Transfer service on 28th January 2008. Over 4000 banks are participating and the payments exchanged during the first live week of operation exceeded €500million in value.
Now that SEPA is here corporates must rise to the challenge of how to integrate the new payment instrument into their Cash Management activities. How can corporates take advantage of this new development? What must they bear in mind as they embark on their own SEPA migration? What about SEPA Direct Debits? And what does the future hold for today's local payment products?
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Doing Business in India
24 January 2008
Asia continues to be an exciting region for companies - its role as a manufacturer center to the world, the infrastructure growth, changing regulatory environment, attractiveness of its capital markets, and growth of domestic economies. Companies doing business in India are looking to be more effective and efficient in their treasury processes, and seeking optimal treasury solutions as they take advantage of one of the highest growth regions in the world.
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