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Banking
Big Data: The Future Is Now
As analytics aimed at helping companies make use of all their data proliferate, companies worldwide are embracing these new technologies and finding ever-more-innovative ways to use them. Those that fail to do so risk being left on the sidelines.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Boosting SME Trade
SIBOS Supersection 2015 | Trade Finance Innovation
The impact of the trade finance shortfall is particularly significant for small and medium-size enterprises.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Companies Lock In Low Rates For 100 Year Bonds And Longer
Capital Markets | Debt
Jaws dropped in June, when scandal-plagued Petrobras, the Brazilian oil company, announced plans to come to market with a 100-year bond. Who in their right mind would lend $2.5 billion for a century to an emerging markets company that in April wrote off $17 billion in overvalued assets and billions more in bribes?
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Currency Swings Squash Quarterly Earnings
Capital Markets | Foreign Exchange
The surging dollar, falling euro and plunging emerging-markets currencies had a record $32 billion negative impact on the earnings of companies in North America and Europe in the first quarter, according to Scottsdale, Arizonabased FiREapps, which helps corporations measure and manage foreign exchange exposure.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Diversification And Data
At the beginning of the summer, credit insurance company Coface issued its monthly list of upgrades and downgrades of country risk.
News
Dorsey Retakes Helm As Twitter Looks For New CEO
Newsmakers | United States
An important C-suite reshuffle is taking place in the world of social networking sites, and it may offer a glimpse into the future of the industry as a whole.
Banking
Driving Change In Bank Relationship Management
SIBOS Supersection 2015 | Bank Relationship Management
Basel III and other regulatory developments are causing a sea change in bank-corporate relationships. It is up to corporate treasurers to lead that process.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Erdoans Presidential Ambitions For Turkey Stymied
Newsmakers | Turkey
It has been said that ultimately all political careers end in failure, but until June 7, few observers were expecting this maxim to be true, quite yet, of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoan.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
European Commission To Streamline & Strengthen Tax Regime
Management | Tax Policy
In an effort to clamp down on tax avoidance by multinationals, the European Commission has announced plans to revive a proposal to unify the corporate tax base across Europe.
Banking
FinTech: Will Blockchain Enable Better Banking?
SIBOS Supersection 2015 | Fintech–Blockchain Technology
Freed from bitcoin, could the blockchain, or blockchain lite, become the underlying infrastructure behind better banking?
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
First Digital Corporate Bond Uses Blockchain Technology
Capital Markets | Debt
Overstock.com, a Utah-based online retailer, issued the first digital corporate bond using blockchain technology—the same technology that supports cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.