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Banking

Milestones: Shareholder Say On Pay Takes Form

MILESTONES: EUROPE By Anita Hawser Billed as a major blow to the UK’s status as a global financial services hub, the European Parliament and council sent a clear message in February about bank bonuses, reaching an agreement that bankers’ bonuses ...

Award Winners

Awards: Treasury & Cash Management 2013

BEST IN SHOW By Anita Hawser and Rebecca Brace Global Finance presents the winners of its Treasury & Cash Management Providers Awards 2013. This year, we have expanded our evaluation process to include a survey of our corporate ...

Award Winners

Best Treasury and Cash Management Providers 2013: Global Winners

GLOBAL WINNERS By Anita Hawser and Rebecca Brace BEST TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT PROVIDERS 2013: GLOBAL WINNERS Best Overall Bank for Cash Management Citi Best White Label System Provider BNY Mellon BEST OVERALL BANK FOR CASH MANAGEMENT ...

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Best Treasury and Cash Management Providers 2013: Regional Winners

REGIONAL WINNERS By Anita Hawser and Rebecca Brace BEST TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT PROVIDERS 2013: REGIONAL WINNERS Best Overall Bank for Cash Management North America Bank of America Merrill Lynch Latin America Citi Western Europe Deutsche Bank ...

Award Winners

Best Treasury and Cash Management Providers 2013: System And Services Winners

SYSTEMS AND SERVICES PROVIDERS By Anita Hawser and Rebecca Brace BEST TREASURY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND SERVICES PROVIDERS Accounts Payable Services BNY Mellon SourceNet Accounts Receivable Services SunGard AvantGard Receivables Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment Services Basware Payroll Services ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Equity Derivatives

FLYING BLIND By Anita Hawser Despite new entrants joining the market, the equity derivatives business saw a marked slowdown over the past year, and some well-established firms are now scaling back their operations. After the global financial ...

Banking

Milestone: Enforcement Will Only Get Tougher Under New FSA Regime

MILESTONES: UK By Anita Hawser After four years under a shadow, the UK’s Financial Services Authority is once again being held up as a model financial regulator — both for its principles-based approach to reporting and for its ability to ...

Banking

Dubai Commodities Exchange Craves More Market Share

MILESTONES: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES By Anita Hawser Dubai Mercantile Exchange is on a mission: It wants to take up more space on the screens of futures traders, according to new CEO Christopher Fix, who once sat on the ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Investors, Not Banks, Will Feel Brunt Of Tobin Tax

MILESTONES: EU By Anita Hawser The proposed Tobin Tax, or financial transaction tax (FTT), is a political hot potato that is being kicked around by various European countries in the wake of the global financial crisis as a means ...

Banking

Report: Qatar Faces Geopolitical Risk

GRAND VISIONS By Anita Hawser Qatar has used its oil and gas wealth to finance its global ambitions. But its economy remains vulnerable to ever-present geopolitical tensions. For a small country, Qatar certainly punches above its weight ...

Banking

Islamic Finance Goes Global

COMING OF AGE By Anit a Hawser Islamic finance is starting to spread within the countries of North Africa with high Muslim concentrations. Any discussion of Islamic finance usually includes Islamic financial hubs such as Malaysia or ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Milestone: Judging Alternatives To Libor

MILESTONES: UK By Anita Hawser The ongoing controversy surrounding Libor, the global benchmark interest rate used for pricing financial contracts, has sparked a wider debate about the merits of using alternative reference rates. The Bank of England ...