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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Technology And Treasury Management

A TREASURER’S BEST FRIEND With cash visibility and control more important than ever, and with risk management becoming an increasing part of the corporate treasurer’s job, technology is playing an ever more pivotal role. As its sophistication grows, treasury ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Technology And Treasury Management: Managing FX Exposure

EXPOSING FOREIGN EXCHANGE RISK By Denise Bedell Companies with international operations are looking beyond spreadsheets to get a timelier view of their global FX exposures. Within a few hours of Osama bin Laden’s being killed, global markets ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Technology And Treasury Management: Mobile Banking

THE NEXT FRONTIER By Anita Hawser Take-up of mobile banking services is accelerating as services—and the devices they run on—become ever more sophisticated. At an annual gathering of the world’s largest corporate and investment banks held in ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Technology And Treasury Management: Working Capital Management

THE WORKING CAPITAL TRANSFORMATION By Denise Bedell Companies are looking to technology to help them delve deeper into their working capital processes. The debate that has long raged over whether enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can compare ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Technology & Treasury Management 2011

Country Report

An Oasis Of Calm

COUNTRY REPORT: KUWAIT By Gordon Platt Kuwait has been largely unaffected by the winds of change sweeping through the Middle East and North Africa. In the 50 years since Britain ended its protectorate and Kuwait became an ...

Banking

Asia’s Banks On The Fast Track

FOCUS: INVESTMENT BANKING IN ASIA By Michael Shari Asia’s big banks are elbowing out their Western rivals as demand for financial services skyrockets in the region—and beyond. One of the great ironies lost in the panic of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Blowing Up

COVER STORY: EMERGING MARKETS INFLATION By Laurence Neville Emerging markets have been credited with saving the world’s economy from catastrophe with their resilient exports. Now they’re exporting a different product that threatens to stop the global recovery in ...

Editor's Letter

Commodities And Inflation

Commodity prices seem to increasingly influence the world economy—both on the producer and consumer side—and the financial markets...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Company To Watch: Cencosud/Chile

LATIN AMERICAN RETAILER PLANS $2 BILLION SHOPPING SPREE By Gordon Platt Santiago, Chile–based Cencosud, the largest retailer in Chile by sales and the third biggest in Latin America, plans to issue up to $2 billion of new shares ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Debt: High-Yield Market Calm Amid Storm

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt High-yield bonds remained remarkably stable during the sell-off in global equity markets and the increase in global market volatility last month, but future gains in the prices of these below-investment-grade ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

DR News: Networking Craze Pays Off For China’s Facebook Clone

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: DR NEWS By Gordon Platt China-based Renren, a copycat of Facebook, became the first social networking site anywhere to be listed on an exchange, with a solid debut on the New York Stock Exchange last ...