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Banking

Standard Bearers

SECTOR FOCUS — ISLAMIC FINANCIAL SERVICES By Anita Hawser Calls for standardized regulation of Islamic financial services are growing louder in the wake of the global financial crisis. Islamic banks emerged from the recent financial crisis with ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

The Benefits Of Discipline

INTERVIEW — DURMUS YILMAZ Turkey's central bank governor talks to Anita Hawser about inflation, Europe and how his country managed to weather the recent global crisis so well. The Central Bank of Turkey has a long history of ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

United Kingdom: Governance Code Puts UK Shareholders In The Hotseat

NEWSMAKERS: UNITED KINGDOM By Anita Hawser Hogg: Code will be catalyst In the wake of the financial crisis, which highlighted the need for higher levels of engagement between the boards of companies and significant shareholders, corporate governance is ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Asia’s Financial Centers Gain Ground On Rivals

MILESTONES: GLOBAL By Anita Hawser Hong Kong: One of the world’s top-three finance centers London and New York can rest easy. Despite the Dodd-Frank Act and other regulatory measures that threaten to split up banks, curb bankers' bonuses and ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Companies Continue To Hoard Cash In Wake Of Credit Crunch

MILESTONES: GLOBAL By Anita Hawser It is not just banks that are coming under increasing criticism for their liquidity-hoarding tendencies....

Award Winners

Features: Annual Survey – Best Treasury & Cash Management Providers

WORLD’S BEST TREASURY PROVIDERS 2010 By Anita Hawser Twelve months ago when we published the 2009 Treasury & Cash Management awards, treasurers were mostly concerned with preserving capital and reducing counterparty risk. While these concerns have not subsided, ...

Banking

Milestones: Financial Services Industry Faces Long Convalescence

Global By Anita Hawser Moloney: Regulators’ lenient attitude toward banks is over As banks enter the convalescence phase after what some describe as the financial equivalent of a major medical trauma, there may be a need for further ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Newsmakers: Financial Turmoil Hits London’s Status

United Kingdom By Anita Hawser Jenkins: London faces threat from multiple emerging market centers As economic power increasingly shifts toward the East and regulators in the West look to rein in the growth of their financial sectors, senior ...

Banking

SIBOS 2010

With thousands of banks and a growing number of corporations attending each year, the Brussels-based international banking network SWIFT's annual Sibos conference has become a crucial forum for debates in transaction banking. This year's conference, to be held in Amsterdam, ...

Banking

SIBOS: Payments Innovation

UNCHARTED TERRITORY By Anita Hawser Banks are struggling to keep up with nonbank rivals in the race to create the next generation of payment systems. It may have been unfettered innovation that got banks into hot water ...

Banking

SIBOS: Remittances

BANKS MAKE A BID FOR A GROWING MARKET By Anita Hawser Technological innovations and the rapid acceleration of globalization are driving a sharp increase in banks' interest in the remittances market. We are on the cusp of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

TCM: Risks And Rewards

By Anita Hawser Having survived one of the worst recessions on record, companies understand better than ever that treasury management is important for improved efficiency, whether through tightening their accounts-receivable or accounts-payable processes to unlock working capital or limiting ...