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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

EuroFinance 2017 | Blockchain To Become ‘Real’ For Treasury In 2018?

The widely discussed technology, some say, will emerge from labs and being in the'proof of concept' stage to to the real world, or what some refer to as “minimum viable products.

Banking

EuroFinance 2017 | How Open Will Banking Be?

The utopian vision of open banking dreamed up by the European Commission when it drafted the PSD II regulation is unlikely to emerge from day one of implementation.

Features

EuroFinance 2017 | Will Machine Learning And AI Take Away Treasury Jobs?

Corporate treasurers may not be out of a job yet, but they will have to adapt, or at least learn how to work with AI in their businesses

Banking

EuroFinance 2017 | Future Of Cross Border Payments

The survey,The future of payments: a corporate treasury perspective,conducted by SWIFT and EuroFinance, gauged the views of treasury professionals, from SMEs to global corporations, in 18 different industries.

Banking

EuroFinance 2017 | Treasury Needs To Keep Up With Technology

Topics likeblockchain, quantum computers capable of cracking Bitcoin code in just 60 secondsand geopolitics dominated the plenary session for the conference.

Banking

EuroFinance 2017 | Treasury On The Brink

BNPParibasin association with PwC, software vendor SAP and the European Association of Corporate Treasurers (EACT) released the second edition of theJourneys To Treasury(JTT) report.The report is a joint thought-leadership initiative that addresses the most important and pertinent items on treasurers’ agendas and offers insights in the world of treasury from the perspectives of the bank, the consultant, the software provider and the industry association.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Goldman Sachs Embraces Online Consumer Lending

Ever since it became a bank holding company in 2008 to stay afloat in the financial crisis, the bank was urged by US Federal Reserve to rely more on ‘sticky’ consumer deposits to lower its risk profile.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Insurance Bonds | Counting The Cost Of Natural Disasters

According to various catastrophe risk-modeling services, estimates of the damage caused by Irma alone now range between $40 billion–$50 billion.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A | DowDuPont Bows To Pressure From Activist Investors

The company haschanged plans to split into three separate companies following the merger between Dow Chemicals and DuPont.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A | Trump Blocks China Semiconductor Deal

The US administration cited national security concerns in following the recommendation of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS), which could get new powers to increase scrutiny of deals by foreign buyers.

Editor's Letter

A Milestone For Global Finance

OCTOBER 2017 | VOL. 31 NO. 9 When the world’s central bankers and finance ministers arrive in Washington this month for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings, the economic picture they will contemplate is rosier than in recent ...

Country Report

Banking In Brazil | Addicted To Hot Money

With thestate-owned National Bank for Economic and Social Development ending its subsidized credit lending practice in Brazil,state and private retail banks will have to step in to support thelong-term credit market unlike at present.