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How Fit is Today's Healthcare Provider's Financial Back Office?It's no secret that today's healthcare providers face immense obstacles in trying to contain the exorbitant costs of running an efficient patient financial services operation. As part of their attempts to do so without impeding the quality of patient services, efforts to overhaul patient claims and payment processing systems to accommodate electronic remittances stand out for their extreme cost-savings potential. Author: Rose Wojciechowski
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Talent Acquisition: Strategies for Competing with the WirehousesLearn strategies and best practices to address your human capital challenges in order to compete effectively with the wirehouses for top talent. Business: Pershing
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Chindia: The Emerging and Merging of Two Asian GiantsAs the world's largest developing nations, China and India continue to fuel Asia's economic growth, which the Asia Development Bank estimates at 7.6 percent for 2008. The rise of these two giants within the global economy has led to healthy competition between the two countries. But as their economies emerge, they also are finding common ground from which to cooperate. Learn more about the changing dynamic towards cooperation. Authors: Aneish Kumar, S.W. Chu
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Towards a Common Carbon Currency: Exploring the Prospects for Integrated Global Carbon MarketsThe global carbon market has grown rapidly in recent years, after a record $63 billion in trading volume in 2007, the first half of 2008 reached $59 billion. We estimate hat a linked global cap and trade market could reach $3 trillion by 2020. This paper analyzes the challenges for market mechanisms to evolve in support of more robust transaction models that lower risk and operational complexity as well as enable greater efficiency. The issues are compounded by numerous standards and unlinked registries in the voluntary market. Author: Hozaifa Arsiwala
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Towards a Common Carbon Currency: Exploring the Prospects for Integrated Global Carbon Markets (Abstract)The global carbon market has grown rapidly in recent years, after a record $63 billion in trading volume in 2007, the first half of 2008 reached $59 billion. We estimate hat a linked global cap and trade market could reach $3 trillion by 2020. This paper analyzes the challenges for market mechanisms to evolve in support of more robust transaction models that lower risk and operational complexity as well as enable greater efficiency. The issues are compounded by numerous standards and unlinked registries in the voluntary market. Business: Corporate Trust
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Alleviating Patient Refunds Doesn't Have to be PainfulAs medical providers continue the now-standard practice of collecting payments directly from patients at the time services are rendered, healthcare organizations are encountering a new and unprecedented roadblock to back office productivity and profitability. It's the highly manual and time-consuming process involved in issuing refund checks. Author: Maureen Turo
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An Evolution in Business-to-Business PaymentsThe number of checks being processed has diminished but the amount of paper that accompanies business payments continues to escalate. Is your wholesale lockbox solution keeping up with the times? Author: Blaine Carnprobst
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Global Registry and Custody Service of Voluntary Carbon UnitsWhile the Kyoto Protocol is moving toward regulation for the signatory countries, a voluntary carbon emissions offset market has developed to meet current needs. BNY Mellon created the Global VCU Registry and Custody unit to provide participants in the voluntary market with a tool that will contribute to development of a fungible market in Voluntary Carbon Units (VCUs). Authors: Anthony Nunes, Daniel Parente
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Investing Through the Liquidity CrisisShort-term investing is a critical function of most treasury departments. Investors work to preserve principal and maintain liquidity as their primary goals while also attempting to maximize returns generated on their excess cash as a secondary goal. Historically, treasury and other short-term investors have viewed money market mutual funds as safe havens to invest their excess liquidity. Author: Kirk Black
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Payables Trends: Optimizing Your Process in a Mixed Payments EnvironmentIn a day and age where electronic payments have proven reliable and timely, should paper checks still be this prevalent? Or, should companies be using more electronic transactions? If you still rely heavily on checks, are you missing opportunities to optimize your payments process? Author: Eric Kamback
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