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The Innovators 2015 | Picture This
The Innovators 2015
<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.008px;">Treasurers say they still lack visibility into global operations. But a new breed of banking solution is improving the view.</span>
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The Most Innovative Banks In Transaction Services 2015
The Innovators 2015 - Transactions Services,isGlobal Finance'sannual listing of key innovations in treasury and transaction services.The financial institutions included in the list are honored for launching products or services that are transforming the corporate transaction services landscape. Global Finance uses the OECD's Oslo Manual Of Innovation to evaluate honorees.
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The Most Innovative Solutions For Consumers/Financial Institutions
The Innovators 2015 - Transactions Services, isGlobal Finance'sannual listing of the most innovative banks and fintech companiesin treasury and transaction services.The firms in this category are honored for launching products or services that are transforming the transaction services landscape for consumers and financial institutions. Global Finance uses the OECD's Oslo Manual Of Innovation to evaluate honorees.
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The Most Innovative Tech Firms In Transaction Services
The Innovators 2015 - Transactions Services, isGlobal Finance'sannual listing of the most innovative banks and fintech companiesin treasury and transaction services.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Venezuela Completes $1 Billion Gold Swap With Citi
Commodities | Desperate for cash to purchase imports, oil-rich Venezuela pawned part of its gold reserves as collateral for a $1 billion loan from Citibank.
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Verizon Seeks Growth And Innovation In AOL Deal
United States | Verizon, one of the largest wireless providers in the United States, announced on May 12 that it will acquire AOL, a leading Internet pioneer and Web content provider, for $4.4 billion.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Vietnam Devalues The Dong Amid An Improving Economy
Vietnam | In May, Vietnam’s central bank once again devalued the country’s currency, the dong—the second such adjustment since January.
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Winners’ Profile | Best Islamic Financial Institutions 2015
Annual Awards honoring the Best Islamic Financial Institutions in the world.
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Year Of The Renminbi: Is Full Convertibility Around The Corner?
As trade denominated in yuan continues to rise at a phenomenal rate, its significance to global markets is quickly increasing. But even as the IMF considers adding renminbi to the basket of SDR reserve currencies and China’s global political clout rises commensurately, the country has yet to fully liberalize its markets—or its currency.
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Life Expectancy By Country
Data on life expectancy offers insight into the health of countries around the world and, as such, into their citizens'chances and ability to prosper.
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World Population Distribution By Country
Population distribution refers to the arrangement or spread of people living in a given area and includes how the population of an area is arranged according to variables, such as age, race or sex.