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Banking

Milestones : Banks On The Spot Over Internet Fraud

UNITED KINGDOM / GLOBAL Brunswick: Banks are responding to threats. The Internet has become a “playground for criminals,” and it is up to banks and other online service providers to make it safe for consumers to ...

Banking

Milestones : Booming Islamic Finance Faces Hurdles

GLOBAL High aspirations: Islamic finance on the rise. Excess liquidity and the tidal wave of petrodollars flooding into the Middle East are causing a surge of interest in Islamic finance. The growth rate of the industry is now ...

Banking

Newsmakers : Banks Face Call To Join Microfinancing Efforts To Ease Poverty

Global Microfinancing, which provides small collateral-free loans of between $15 and $200 to help people in poverty set up their own businesses, is increasingly taking center stage in the battle to eradicate poverty. At the fifth World Chambers ...

News

Newsmakers : Few Cities Attain ‘knowledge Hub’ Status

Europe Stockholm: One of 15 knowledge hubs. With just over two years to go, the European Commission’s Lisbon Agenda initiative to transform Europe into the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010 appears to ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Newsmakers : The unsinkable mrs. K

Argentina Double act: Nestor Kirchner and the presidential hopeful, Mrs. K. Argentine First Lady and senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is poised to replace her husband, President Nestor Kirchner, in the top post in the October 28 ...

News

Newsmakers : ‘Helicopter Ben’ Refuses To Panic

United states Bernanke under pressure as he fends off calls for a rate cut. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke didn’t exactly call out the helicopters and dump bundles of money on Wall Street last month to keep the ...

Banking

TCM Guide 2007 : Sepa: Reaching Beyond European Borders

CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE: CITI Naveed Sultan is Managing Director, Head of Global Transaction Services in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) The birth of a new currency used by more than 300 million consumers is a remarkable event. Since ...

Banking

TCM Guide 2007 : Beyond Finance: The Treasurer And Supply Chain Management

CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE: JPMORGAN CHASE Jonathan Heuser is Vice President of Trade Services at JPMorgan Chase. Solely focusing on traditional approaches to cash management can limit a treasurer’s ability to manage working capital in a holistic way. One of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

TCM Guide 2007 : Europe Editor’s Letter

<p>Welcome to Global Finance’s annual Treasury & Cash Management Guide, in which we explore the latest trends and issues in the world of global cash management...</p>

Banking

TCM Guide 2007 : Global Direct Remittances: Developing Low-Value Payments Capabilities

CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON Eric D. Kamback is Executive Vice President and Group Head for Global Payment and Trade Services at The Bank of New York Mellon For generations, immigrants have sent ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

TCM Guide 2007 : Identity Solution

CORPORATE ID MANAGEMENT As corporate treasury systems become increasingly automated, businesses and their banking partners are devising innovative techniques to ensure only authorized personnel can make payments. Wendel: In approximately 25% of cases, account signatories are wrong. Hans-Maarten van ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

TCM Guide 2007 : Online FX

EXCHANGE CHANGE ONLINE FOREIGN EXCHANGE Key players in the online foreign exchange markets are hoping that new entrants and the integration of interdealer and dealer-to-client platforms will end the stagnation that is hindering workflow development. Theodorou: Many ...