Features
Liquidity Management: Corporates Go Back To The Drawing Board
Cash is still king, and unlocking trapped cash or investing it for higher yield remains one of the major preoccupations of most corporate treasurers.
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Features
Companies Prepping For Investment, M&A, Regulatory Changes
AFP EXCLUSIVE<br />
Companies across the world continue to hoard cash though their reasons for doing so are gradually changing as market confidence grows and counterparty risk slowly falls from its financial crisis peak.
Features
Recasting India: Entrepreneurship In The World’s Largest Democracy
Book Review<br />
Sengupta’s Recasting India envisions India’s real growth drivers as the millions of small entrepreneurs in the country and the "extraordinary enterprise of ordinary people.”
Features
Technology: Focus On Counterparty Risk, Private Clouds
AFP Exclusive | Q&A<br />
An interview with Paul Bramwell, SVP of treasury solutions, SunGard.
Features
The Bottom-Line Benefit Of Strategic Treasury
AFP Exclusive | Q&A<br />
Global Finance sits down with Diane Reyes, Global Head of Payments and Cash Management, HSBC
Features
US Companies Get Comfy With The Renminbi
AFP Exclusive | Q&A<br />
An interview with Dan Scanlan, regional transaction banking head for the Americas, Standard Chartered.
Award Winners
CHINA: A NEW ECONOMY IN THE MAKING
Annual Survey | Stars Of China<br />
Something’s changed this year. Midmarket innovators are taking the lead, Internet companies are now world-beaters, and banks are staking their ground in a whole new way.
Supplement
Foreign Exchange Supplement 2014
Many dyed-in-the-wool foreign exchange traders lament the regulatory changes sweeping the industry more than six years after the global financial crisis. The market has become too boring for them. In the US, the Volcker Rule has caused banks to shut down their proprietary trading desks, while provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act are causing big FX banks to stop making markets in currencies and to act simply as agents for their customers.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
A LONG WAY OFF – RISE OF THE RENMINBI
FX Supplement 2014 | Renminbi Expansion<br />
Despite media hype, the renminbi still has some way to go before challenging the dollar as a major currency for international trade.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
A WATERED-DOWN EEU
Milestones | Commonwealth Of Independent States<br />
In October, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia put the finishing legal touches to the creation of the Eurasian Economic Union, which comes into being on January 1, 2015.
Banking
ARE BANKS UNSAFE AT ANY SIZE?
Banking Regulation<br />
The globe’s financial systems are still vulnerable to contagion. Critics say regulators are unlikely to fix the problem unless they shift gears.
Banking
ARGENTINE GOVERNOR MAY FURTHER DILUTE CENTRAL BANK INDEPENDENCE
Newsmakers | Argentina<br />
Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in early October triggered the resignation of the head of the country’s central bank, Juan Carlos Fabrega, by criticizing him for not reducing manipulation of the country’s currency. His replacement, Alejandro Vanoli, formerly the head of the country’s securities regulator, CNV, doesn’t look likely to set Argentina on a better path.