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Panelist Profile | John Laurens Of DBS Bank
Panelist Profile – John Laurens Of DBS Bank | Digital Bank Conference and Best Digital Bank Awards 2015 | | Global Finance Magazine
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The World’s Best Digital Bank Awards 2015
This is the 16th year Global Finance has named the World’s Best Digital Banks and details on all First Round winners will be published in the September issue.
Award Winners
A Local Business With International Reach
Global Finance interviewed Derek Pattison, Scotiabank’s VP of wealth management, Bahamas, on the importance of responding to clients’ needs for any product, anywhere.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Appointment Further Strains Russia / Ukraine Relations
Newsmakers | Ukraine
Tensions between Russia and Ukraine have run high since late 2013, when Russia resisted Ukrainian efforts to move out of the Russian sphere of influence and toward the West.
Award Winners
Best Global Corporate And Consumer Banks 2015
Global Finance Honors a Japanese powerhouse and a Spanish superstar as Top Of Class for 2015.
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.