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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Treasury And Trade: Cash Forecasting

HIGH TECH MEETS THE LAW OF INERTIA By Paula Green Treasurers wanting to move to high-end forecasting solutions still face an uphill challenge. Even when a treasurer wants to move to a high-end system for forecasting cash, ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Treasury And Trade: Convergence

THE STARS ALIGN By Rebecca Brace As treasurers seek to optimize liquidity and working capital, cash and trade solutions are increasingly in sync. Treasury and trade used to be two separate disciplines. But in recent years there ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Treasury And Trade: Winners’ Circle Trade Finance

DOMINANT REGIONAL PLAYERS By Kathryn Tully Since 2002, Global Finance has honored the best trade finance banks by region and by country based on a number of criteria, including technological innovation, transaction volumes, global coverage, customer service and ...

Banking

Winners’ Circle: World’s Best Islamic Finance Institutions

DISTINGUISHING GLOBAL GROWTH By Kathryn Tully Global Finance’ s most recently instituted awards acknowledging the best Islamic finance institutions globally, by region and by country only began in 2008, but in that relatively short time, a number of ...

Award Ceremonies and Events

World’s Best Banks Awards Ceremony 2012

AWARDS CEREMONY: LOCATION TOKYO, JAPAN Global Finance held its annual Best Banks awards ceremony in Tokyo in October. The event took place during the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank. Financial leaders from around the world ...

Award Winners

THE World’s BEST INTERNET BANKS 2012 – GLOBAL

Global Finance names the World’s Best Internet Banks 2012 NEW YORK, November 7, 2012 Global Finance has announced the Global...

Features

Foreign Exchange 2012

Emerging & Frontier Markets

SIBOS 2012 – Asian Companies Centralize Treasury To Manage Global Growth

Chinese corporates are still focusing on domestic growth—but also starting to set up manufacturing bases worldwide. They are moving up...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

SIBOS 2012 – BPOs Embraced By BP Chemicals

First and foremost, it reduces administration and documentation, and vastly reduces the time-to-payment on secured trade account receivables. With an...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

SIBOS 2012 – Is Trade Becoming An Asset Class?

Is trade becoming an asset class? Some market participants are pushing in that direction. This, of course, is easier said...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

SIBOS 2012 – Regulatory Arbitrage Ultimately Costs Corporates

The impact of Basel III on trade was a key topic of discussion at Sibos. As one delegate said: “We...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

SIBOS 2012 – SWIFT Alliance Lite2 Eases Corporate Access

Gone are the days when companies wishing to connect directly with their banks via SWIFT had to invest huge resources—in...