November 2011 - New version of Cash & Liquidity Management Component released
With cash and liquidity management now a crucial focus for treasuries, we are pleased to announce that we have just released a significantly enhanced version of our Cash & Liquidity component. It now includes a dedicated bank balance management feature to ease the pain of importing, editing, and viewing the daily bank balances across multiple currencies, subsidiaries, or banking platforms. This new component will significantly streamline the way you manage your liquidity, bank accounts and cash forecasting activities.
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September 2011 - Total Treasury™
We are proud to announce Australasia's first end-to-end treasury solution incorporating front office risk analytics, back office, hedge accounting, general ledger and cash management components. To read more about our Total Treasury™, click here
September 2011 Article: CCIRS Under the Hood - Hedge Accounting for Currency Basis
This article describes the different methods to hedge account for the currency basis risk inherent in Cross Currency Swaps. Please click here to read this article.
July 2011 - Beyond Gap ALM Newsletter
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June 2011 - PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Singapore, selects Visual Risk
We are pleased to announce that PwC LLP has selected our fully integrated suite of Risk, Treasury Management and IAS Compliance modules to underpin their treasury advisory and outsourcing businesses in Singapore and Malaysia. Click here to read more.
June 2011 - Visual Risk achieves Microsoft Partner Gold Independent Software Vendor Status
Visual Risk is pleased to announce that it has once more achieved Microsoft's Gold Partnership status, the program's highest level for an Independent Software Vendor. Certified partners have a proven commitment to the adoption of cutting edge Microsoft technology whilst delivering excellence in customer service.
May 2011 - Visual Risk featured in Risk Magazine
Visual Risk Managing Director Richard Hughes has been interviewed by Risk Magazine for their article 'The risks of a rising dollar'. It highlights the need for companies to focus on their risk management and hedging strategies in the light of unprecedented risk in the AUD and broader markets. Click here to read the article.
May 2011 Article: IFRS 9 Under the Hood - An Introduction
This article is the first in a series that will discuss some of the proposed changes to the IFRS 9 hedge accounting standard. It focusses on two main issues: the broad implications for risk management policy in relation to hedge accounting as defined in the Standard and option time value. Please click here to read this article.
April 2011 - New component: Target@Risk™ introduced to enhance our Reporting Dashboard
Visual Risk today introduces Target@Risk™, another best-of-breed risk component. Target@Risk™ builds on the strength of our existing risk capabilities and adds the ability to monitor and stress test potential cashflow variances relative to specific treasury targets or your budget. It can be applied to reduce potential variances to acceptable levels and deliver cashflow certainty to your business. Target@Risk™ introduces another best practice management metric to help your treasury monitor and mitigate market risk.
Target@Risk™ can be viewed through our powerful Reporting Dashboard which analyses portfolio data from within the treasury system and then publishes the outputs with clear visual representations for boardroom reporting. The Visual Risk Reporting Dashboard delivers the most advanced treasury solution available today, providing treasuries with a key strategic tool for effective decision making and risk mitigation.
February 2011 - Scenarios Newsletter
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February 2011 - Visual Risk announces new data agreement with ThomsonReuters and ICAP
We are pleased to announce that Visual Risk has recently partnered with ThomsonReuters and ICAP to provide our clients with a new, fully integrated market data solution. This service significantly streamlines otherwise time consuming data upload processes and ensures a far greater degree of data integrity.The data available covers interest rates, FX and commodities. It also includes difficult to obtain prices such as currency basis swap rates, basis spreads and volatilities.
This partnership brings together two best-of-breed services to automatically deliver data directly into your Visual Risk system.
January 2011 - New Functionality Focus: Cash Management
Visual Risk now includes a powerful new cashflow forecasting function which leverages our native cashflow engine to generate accurate forecasts combining treasury and non-treasury cashflows.
Features include:
Bank account and bank account pool management, import of bank account balances, import of non-treasury cashflows to complete the cash picture, calculation of cash positions at account, pool and consolidated level, flexible reporting layout options and date bucketing capabilities
This development once more illustrates our commitment to the continuous improvement of Visual Risk.
October 2010 - Visual Risk signs 8 New Clients
We are pleased to announce yet another successful quarter with Visual Risk selected by the following clients to help manage their treasuries:
Bank of Cyprus • Dulux • Fonterra (NZ) • Greenstone Energy (NZ) • Industries Mutual Credit Union • Lend Lease • Resources Credit Union • Schweppes
This once more confirms Visual Risk's growing popularity with treasurers across Australia and New Zealand. We now have over 100 clients, including 38 of the ASX Top 200.
June 2010 - Visual Risk signs up 5 new clients
We are very pleased to announce that Visual Risk has recently been selected by the following blue-chip clients:
Foxtel • Queensland Rail Passenger • Rural Finance • Stockland • Toll Holdings
Our client base now includes many of the leading companies in this region.
