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  • International chemicals company ICI saved £17 million through working capital management (WCM) schemes last year, easily covering the £10 million increase in its pension fund requirements.
  • As the deadline of March 15 approaches for US companies to report on their Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, the big accountancy firms say they expect one in ten to report serious difficulties.
  • Jefferson Wells, a global provider of risk, control, compliance and financial process improvement today warned UK companies not to become over-complacent about Sarbanes-Oxley (SOx) compliance, after news that the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) would extend the deadline by up to five months was announced.
  • Norbert Wanninger has resigned from his post as head of global cash management for corporates at Deutsche Bank.
  • BP has outlined an aggressive dividend strategy for the coming year, promising to return 100% of its free cash flow to shareholders ? which will likely total more than $23 billion.
  • Over a quarter of FTSE 350 directors believe that the requirement to comply with new regulations has a negative impact on their business.
  • Confidence in the European media sector is set to continue in 2005 according to the latest Media Insights report from PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Finance. This outlook follows a levelling out of activity in 2004 following strong growth in the second half of 2003, demonstrating a steady climb-back from the trough of 2002 - an indication that the M&A arena will be worth watching in 2005.
  • Citigroup has appointed Tom King as head of the European Investment Bank (EIB). His appointment is effective immediately.
  • SunGard Treasury Systems has announced the release of AvantGard-GTM 8.0 ? the product includes an interface and capabilities for derivatives accounting, interest rate processing, foreign exchange and cash management. The new version of AvantGard also debuts Status-based Security (SBS).
  • Pensions can be worth anywhere between 20% and 70% of salary for finance executives across FTSE 350 companies, according to a report by Deloitte.
  • It's been a good week for UK companies' earnings reports. One day after Shell announced record profits, coffee chain Caffe Nero said its profits had almost trebled from £735,000 to £1.89 million in 2004.
  • The frequency of US asset-backed security (ABS) downgrades fell to 7.8% in 2004 from 10.2% in 2003, but remained higher than the 5.4% historical average. The upgrade rate improved slightly to 2.1% in 2004 from 1.3% in 2003.