Short-Term Financing Tool.

• Position: Optimizer from TreasuryPoint.com - Product Information - Brief Article - Product Announcement

TreasuryPoint.com, a treasury Web site pioneered by SEI Investments, has launched the Optimizer, an advanced analytical tool that helps treasurers improve short-term investing and borrowing decisions based on lowest cost or best return. After four years of research, development and a successful beta trial with Sealy Corp., which continues as a client, the Optimizer is now available for subscription.

TreasuryPoint calls the Optimizer "a sophisticated artificial intelligence decision-making support tool." Using daily information about a company's financial situation that the treasurer inputs, plus live feeds from current rate and financial market data sources, the Optimizer analyzes a company's short-term investing or borrowing choices and calculates its optimal choices over a one- to 90-day period. The product's recommendations resulted in lower cost of funds and increased investment returns in all live tests and historical case studies.

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