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The Wealth Effects of REIT straight Debt Offerings
The market's reaction to seventy four real estate investment trust (REIT) straight debt issues between 1991 and 1997 is examined. No significant market reaction to straight debt issues on the announcement day is found. The findings also show that in univariate tests of announcement day returns, the market reaction to...
Tags: Investment, Villanova University, REIT, real estate
White papers 2001-07-16
straight Through Processing Comes of Age
Treasuries in properly managed companies could no longer rely on amateurish spreadsheet-based systems, and the need for choosing and implementing proven and secure treasury, cash and risk management systems became paramount in the corporate treasury sector during the late 1990s. This is one of the several reasons why the value...
Tags: Financial Planning, Financial services, Strategy, treasury, risk management, financial service, spreadsheet, industry
White papers 2003-03-25
Getting Your Priorities straight: A Twisted Path
A major challenge that faces every software product is determining the priority of the oh-so-many suggestions that come to Product Management as requirements for the next release. This is one of those areas that wind up containing a heavy dose of mystery masquerading as rocket science. Requirements get prioritized using...
Tags: Pragmatic Marketing Inc., software product, software
White papers 2005-01-01
Sales Management Myths:straight Commission
Compensation plays an important role in sales management. An effective compensation plan boosts the motivation of the salesforce. This encourages the salespeople to give out their best, thereby increasing the sales productivity level. The paper argues that straight commission plans rarely motivate an established salesforce to sell more. This issue...
Tags: Sales force management, Sales strategy, Benefits, sales force, compensation, motivation, commission, sales
White papers 2003-01-01
UniFi PRO Mortgage eX: Enterprise Intelligence Automation an ROI-Based, Customer-Centric Business Case for straight-Through Loan Processing
This white paper describes, in detail, the industry's vision of straight-through mortgage loan processing and the opportunity for software vendors like Fiserv to develop and offer sophisticated loan origination system (LOS) capabilities that would support a lender's desire to deploy fully electronic mortgage workflows across the enterprise.
Tags: Strategy, ROI, vision, industry, software
White papers 2004-08-30
Web Services And straight Through Processing
This article discusses the fundamentals of Straight Through Processing STP, the need for, driving forces behind, and benefits of STP, the current state of technology supporting STP, and the relationship of enterprise and business-to-business application integration and business process management with STP. It further looks at the critical parameters for...
Tags: Operational planning, Web services, Channel management, Enterprise software, John Wiley & Sons Inc., Web service, BPM, SOA, business process, Web, benefit
White papers 2002-06-26
Texas Apartment Market Posts Second straight Month Of Occupancy Increase
While Houston recorded the largest monthly increase, it continues to post the lowest overall occupancy, with Austin posting the highest. Houston was the only market not to post an increase in rental rates in March. Demand was strong for a second straight month, with Houston recording the highest monthly absorption...
Tags: Houston
White papers 2007-04-27
The Hot New Model in Foreign Exchange
This paper talks about the Electronic trading adopted by the financial institution in context with cash management. Trading foreign exchange via the Internet has matured in just a few years from a technological novelty to a standard way of doing business. While companies initially started trading electronically because it promised...
Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, Treasury & Risk Management, foreign-exchange, pricing strategy, financial, benefit, Internet
White papers 2004-01-01
straight-Through Processing in Commercial Lending: AFS Delivers the Whole Nine Yards
This research note surveys the industry and operational issues now challenging commercial lending and examines the many elements of the value proposition that straight-through-processing (STP) technology brings to bear on those challenges. It lays out the business case in favor of STP as the cornerstone of a comprehensive and scalable...
Tags: Banking, Tower Group Inc., commercial lending, business case, survey, bank, benefit, industry
White papers 2004-07-01
Fixed Asset Record With straight Line Depreciation
This is a template for fixed asset record with straight line depreciation.
Tags: Microsoft Corp.
Tools & templates 2003-12-11
Municipal Operational Underwriting Process Business Practices in Plain English
The purpose of this initiative is to identify opportunities to make the end to end underwriting process more efficient and more congruent with enabling straight through processing (STP). With the onset of Real Time Trade Matching (RTTM), the need to focus on straight through processing in the issuance of municipal...
Tags: security
White papers 2003-10-16
The Male Locker Room
An amusing discussion over at Andrew Sullivan's blog on John Amaechi noting that in NBA locker rooms guys "check each other out" all the time. One reader writes Andrew:I don't get this whole "taking a showerwith your gay team-mates thing." I am straight. Straight as an arrow.I like women....
Tags: General
Blog posts 2007-02-17
Seven Reasons Why Real Estate Prices Will Hold Up for Now But Five More Reasons Why You Should Sit Up straight and Pay Close Attention
Commercial real estate has done just fine, in a non-inflationary environment. This would suggest that real estate is more of a stagnation hedge than an inflation hedge. Furthermore, the weakness in fundamentals has been driven by demand?not supply. This article provides seven reasons why commercial real estate prices will hold...
Tags: Financial services, University of Wisconsin, commercial real estate, real estate, inflation, environment
White papers 2004-11-08
What Is Your Check 21 Business Case?: The Compelling ROI With straight Through Check Processing and the Imperative for Reengineering in Response to Check 21
Check 21 details how banks will handle the consumer implications of the act, but does not provide bank's with guidance (technology or process) around inter and intra-bank image electronic processing. This means there is no clear direction about what should and should not be included in the ROI/business case, essentially...
Tags: ROI/TCO, Alogent Corp., Check 21, ROI, re-engineering, bank, business case, environment
White papers 2003-08-01
Genworth Streamlines New Insurance Business With straight Through Processing
Genworth is a leading insurance holding company, serving the lifestyle protection, investment and mortgage insurance needs with operations in 20 countries. Genworth wished to expand their new business acquisition programs to respond to market demand and competitive pressures. The challenges put forth were to enable web-based access, to reduce cycle...
Tags: Financial Planning, Patni Computer Systems Ltd., insurance, imaging, business process, Web, partnership
Case studies 2005-09-07
The Choice Between Mandatory Convertibles and Other Securities: A Risk Management Perspective
The objective of this study is to examine the firm's corporate financing choices with particular focus on recent innovations in mandatory convertible securities. Specifically, the paper examines under what conditions firms issue straight debt, convertible bonds, mandatory convertibles and straight equity. The paper analyzes the firm's decision from a risk...
Tags: Financial services, Strategy, Investment, convertibles, risk management, financing, bond, equity, security, stock
White papers 2004-04-01
Perfect Treasury for an Imperfect World
Most multinational corporate treasuries would love to transfer scarce staff from manual tasks to strategic, value-added activities; implement cutting-edge technology; engineer straight-through processing; streamline banking relationships; cut costs dramatically; and pool cash globally to maximize liquidity and invest funds wherever they produce the greatest return. Best practices are most businesses'...
Tags: Investment, Penton Media Inc., liquidity, best practice, banking, environment
White papers 2003-11-01
Corporate Action Processing TRANSFORMING
This article defines the business strategy, Providing a New Level of Risk Management. And Achieving Straight-Through Processing. The Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) analysis of the challenges associated with corporate action processing, and DTCC’s strategy to help market participants manage risk, reduce costs and achieve greater levels of straight-through processing (STP) globally....
Tags: business strategy, risk management, best practice, analysis, strategy, industry
White papers 2003-03-16
Call-In Pay Policy
The Call-in Pay policy states that an employee shall be paid the applicable straight-time or overtime rate for the actual hours worked, or a minimum of 4 hours regular straight-time base pay, whichever is greater, on the occasion that it is necessary to call in hourly employees without notice outside...
Tags: payroll, supervisor, Human Resources
Tools & templates 2007-11-16
straight Talk From the Corner Office
Straight talk from managers is rare these days. When you see it, its like a breath of fresh air. Check out Execupundit's recent post "Note from Boss to Employees." It's a twelve-point memo that gives employees an insight into what it's like to be a manager. Here are some gems...
Tags: Workforce management, Recruitment & Selection, Joseph De Avila, Microsoft Office, Straight Talk
Blog posts 2007-03-02
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