Citi’s Online Academy for Corporations

Previous Webinars Archive 2010

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Citi’s Online Academy - Finding a smooth path to repatriate cash from China
November 2 2010

This session featured experts from Deloitte and Citi who share their knowledge and experience toprovide an overview of various cash repatriation strategies available in China and the general Chinese tax and SAFE rules concerning cash repatriation.

Speakers:

  • Philippe Jaccard, Asia Pacific Head, Global Liquidity and Investments, Citi
  • Hong Ye, Partner, International and M&A Tax services Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd
  • Wei Shu, Transfer Pricing Partner, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd
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Receivables Management - An Integrated and Centralized Approach
October 21 Thursday

In today’s corporate reality, accelerating collections and unlocking trapped liquidity have the potential to significantly impact a company’s overall financial performance. From this perspective, receiving cash into the company and applying it against an open item automatically and without delays is high on the agenda of many corporate treasurers. Electronification of paper payments, centralization, standardization and automation across multiple geographies and straight-through reconciliation have become strategic objectives of corporate clients in the Receivables space.

In this session, Karin Flinspach and Alberto Casas examined Receivables best practices, with a particular focus on EMEA and U.S. regions.

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Economic Outlook and Regulatory Reform: Implications of the Dodd-Frank Act to Corporations
September 16 Thursday

Over the past few years, the operating environment for companies has rapidly changed and evolved due to the financial turmoil and an evolving regulatory environment. These changes must be carefully analyzed and understood to identify the impact on corporations and their treasury departments.

In this session, Robert DiClemente, Michael Berkowitz and William Hartnett examine the economic outlook in the US through 2011 as well as provide an overview of the Dodd-Frank Act and its implications on corporations from a transaction banking and derivatives standpoint.

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Citi’s Online Academy: Tax aligned supply chain structures
July 29th Thursday

This webinar features experts from Deloitte and Citi who will share their knowledge and experience to help you plan and structure a tax and treasury efficient supply chain for your company.

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Recording ID: D4Z2ST
Recording Key: 5853684
User login: 5853684
Password: 009124

Citi’s Online Academy presents: Making the Most of Your Export LCs

Join Citi’s in-house Letter of Credit experts as they discuss Export LC confirmations and their value as a risk mitigating and financing tool. Our experts will define the components and the process around confirmations as well as the factors that are considered by issuing banks, confirming banks and beneficiaries. This discussion will guide your decisions around whether or not a confirmation is suitable and the steps you can take to minimize turnaround time and disruptions to transaction flows.

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Citi’s Online Academy: Navigating URDG 758
14-15 July 2010

The Uniform Rules for Demand Guarantees, ICC Publication No. 758 (effective 1 July 2010), represents the new ICC Rules for international practice in the use of demand guarantees.

Join Citi’s Global Trade Advisory team as they take you through the details of the URDG 758, and its effect on trade transactions. The session will cover the following:

  • Overview of the URDG 758
  • Key Articles - URDG 458 vs. URDG 758
  • Comparison to UCP600 and ISP98
  • The impact on global trade
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Recording ID: PK976S
Attendee Key: PB_;r]2

Citi’s Online Academy: The Evolving Supply Chain Finance Market
29 June 2010

In this session Olivia Xu, North America Trade Sales at Citi, Vasilios Kontogianis, Supplier Finance Product Manager at Citi, and Rico Elmore, Founder and CEO of Fatheadz Eyewear, join a panel discussion on The Evolving Supply Chain Finance Market.

Lara Sowinski, Editor of World Trade WT100 magazine moderates the panel and some of the topics covered include:

  • Changing global trade landscape
  • How supply chain financing is evolving in this market
  • Opportunities and challenges for both buyers and suppliers
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Citi’s Online Academy: Renminbi Internationalization – The Birth of a Global Currency
June 9 Asia version

This session will focus on understanding the implications of the ongoing RMB Internationalization program and how corporates across the globe must access:

  • Who can participate in this program?
  • How can we be part of this program?
  • Where can we use RMB?
  • What RMB services can we use?
  • Is RMB fully convertible offshore?
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Recording ID: 2005099
Attendee Key: 2005099

Citi’s Online Academy: Renminbi Internationalization – The Birth of a Global Currency
June 9 EMEA/NA version

This session will focus on understanding the implications of the ongoing RMB Internationalization program and how corporates across the globe must access:

  • Who can participate in this program?
  • How can we be part of this program?
  • Where can we use RMB?
  • What RMB services can we use?
  • Is RMB fully convertible offshore?
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Citi’s Online Academy: Effective Global Liquidity and Risk Management: Global Visibility As A Key Step
2 June 2010

In this webinar, Cindy Gerhard and Steven Elms from Citi, shared how timely, comprehensive visibility is a key first step for improving global liquidity & risk management. They also included several illustrations showing how technology can be applied to enhance decision making and accelerate achievement of your treasury goals.

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Citi’s Online Academy: Efficient Receivables Management – the untapped frontier
20 May 2010

In this webinar, we will explore how companies can unlock the cash trapped in the O2C cycle by dealing with the most commonly identified areas of "pain". We will also look at the best practices that can be adopted for an efficient receivables management which, once implemented, will result in an optimised DSO and will steer major efficiencies in the organisation.

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Citi's Online Academy: Centralizing Global Short-term Investing: New Tools and Techniques
6 May 2010

Companies are looking to centralize global treasury investment processes to eliminate idle cash while streamlining processes, improving risk controls, and enhancing investment policy compliance. Hear how your experiences compare to your peers and take a closer look at changes in the markets, as well as new tools and techniques to help you stay ahead of the curve.

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Citi's Online Academy: SWIFT for Corporates - modern trends made easy
22 April 2010

This webinar, co-presented by SWIFT and Citi, was targeted at Corporates looking to join or who have recently joined SWIFT. This session takes a look at modern trends; exploring best practices and future developments; a typical profile of Corporates joining SWIFT; evolution of service demands; file format trends and connectivity options.

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Citi’s Online Academy: Minimizing Discrepancies On Your Export LCs
8 April 2010

This session identified the most common discrepancies in the processing of export LCs and how and why these create delays. Our team provided helpful suggestions on how to avoid mistakes, produce compliant documents and get paid quicker.

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Citi's Online Academy: Why Borrow When You Can Make Your Own? Optimizing Internal Liquidity Globally
25 March 2010

This session explored the latest approaches for centralizing cash and optimizing liquidity management, considering some of the common challenges and pitfalls and discussed strategies to overcome them, and evaluate how providers are allowing greater flexibility to meet corporate objectives.

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Citi's Online Academy: Launch of the automated IBAN and BIC conversion and validation service in SEPA
18 February 2010

Citi clients can take advantage of a BIC and IBAN data-conversion service through SEPA data specialists, Experian Payments to get to optimal data quality.
The result: you can accelerate SEPA adoption - eliminate the costly and time consuming effort of manually collecting this information - maximise automated reconciliation rates - and minimise returned and rejected payment instructions.

This session indicates how to improve your STP rates and overall account data quality to be ready to benefit from SEPA.

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Citi's Online Academy: Doing business in the Middle East
20 January 2010

This session covered a brief macroeconomic outlook of the Middle East, the corporate trends in the areas of Cash Management and Trade services which underpin the growth of both the foreign multinationals as well as the emerging local champions operating in the region, with a special update on developments in Iraq.

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