Our practice is focused on risk management and global treasury management:

• Reducing FX, interest rate and commodity risk. Writing Policies. Developing FAS 133 hedging strategies and documentation that minimize P&L ineffectiveness and forecast error. Natural hedging techniques. Risk measurement, including value-at-risk and earnings-at-risk implementations.

• Improving local treasury operating costs. Using our web survey technology, we quickly and cost-effectively diagnose local treasury and working capital inefficiencies. Using local banking cost and transaction volume information, we evaluate the benefits of centralized treasury alternatives, including implementing payment factories.

• Minimizing interest expense net of interest income with global cash management. Pan-European cash management. In-country and cross-border pooling structures. In-house banks. Interco netting. Outsourcing IHB management.

• Securing funding and reducing after-tax interest expense. Bank relationship strategies. Negotiating strategies. In conjunction with Tax, restructuring subsidiary capital structures to minimize the after-tax cost of interest.

• Improving treasury decision making and supervision with better information processes. Treasury intranets. Treasury data warehouses. World-class use of technology, not use of world-class technology.

• Lessening treasury errors by implementing best practices. We review your existing treasury practices and processes to bring you up to "best in class" appropriate to your company's size and operations risks.

To learn more about GTA's services, contact Jeff Wallace, Managing Partner, at (303) 442-4433 and jeff.wallace@greenwichtreasury.com. Read why companies choose Greenwich Treasury.