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The World’s Best Foreign Exchange Providers 2016

Criteria for choosing the winners included transaction volume, market share, scope of global coverage, customer service, competitive pricing and innovative technologies. Global Finance also considered input from a panel of experts and feedback from industry analysts, corporate executives and technology specialists.

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To Hedge, Or Not To Hedge: Marc Zaffran, Societe Generale

<strong>Q+A</strong><br /> Marc Zaffran, head of FX sales at Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking, says clients are looking more closely at how and why they hedge.

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Winners Profile: Best FX Providers 2016

Profiles of the2016 FX Award Winners by Region and Category

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World’s Best Foreign Exchange Providers 2016 | Table of Contents

The $5 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market is changing rapidly, as electronic execution platforms control the bulk of trading and bank dealers streamline operations in response to growing pressure from regulators to cut trading risks and boost capital.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Argentina’s New Finance Minister Wrestles With Peso

Argentina The appointment of Alfonso Prat-Gay as Argentina’s new Finance minister was a clear sign to international investors that president Mauricio Macri, sworn in December 10, was serious about unraveling the populist policies of the previous government.

Features

Asset Management: Separate Accounts Are All the Rage

Corporate treasurers are parking more cash in separately managed accounts, which can be customized to their investment needs—and often beat money-market-fund returns.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Brazil Reeling After Another Junk Rating

The axe fell on Brazil heading into 2016 as it suffered a downgrade to junk status by Fitch Ratings, heightening the air of crisis as the beleaguered nation grapples with political turmoil and recession.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

BTG Looks To Restore Credibility By Selling Off Assets

Corporate Governance | Management Selling the assets could improve BTG’s net worth by 20 billion reais ($5 billion).

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Bulgaria Attractive Despite Corruption

Bulgaria’s multilingual workforce attracts foreign investors, but corruption is a problem.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Burkina Faso’s New President Has An Edge

Burkina Faso There’s been big change in the small country of Burkina Faso. On November 29, the West African nation of 17 million held its first free elections in almost three decades.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

China: The World’s New Laboratory

Tom Manning, affiliate partner at Waterstone Management, has been advising global companies on China, and vice-versa, for years. The onetime CEO of Ernst & Young Consulting Asia, Capgemini Asia, Cerberus Asia and Indachin, and former senior partner at Bain, sat down with Global Finance to discuss the nation’s quiet innovation revolution.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

China’s New FX Regime

Foreign Exchange | Capital Markets The renminbi’s entry into the International Monetary Fund’s basket of currencies, the Special Drawing Rights (SDR), will require China to have a more flexible exchange rate.