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Milestones : Sepa Rollout Faces More Hurdles

EUROPE Desmares: Corporates cool on SEPA. Businesses and public sector organizations operating in Europe have until 2010 to abandon existing national payment instruments and adopt new pan-European credit transfer and direct debits. At least that is the ...

News

Newsmakers : Trichet Urges Better Risk Control

EUROPE Trichet: Questions investors' reliance on credit ratings. The subprime mortgage crisis in the US has forced the president of the European Central Bank (ECB) to speak out about the new sources of risk being created by the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Cover Story : Waiting In The Wings

EU ACCESSION HOPEFULS Preparing their economies for entry to the European Union is yielding dramatic results for accession candidates and providing inspiration for those that aspire to follow them. Kiev: Banking market set for sharp growth. While EU accession ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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>

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 ...

Banking

Features : Change Agents

CUSTODY & INVESTORS’ SERVICES Over the past three decades, the global custody and investors’ services industry has facilitated some of the most dramatic and far-reaching changes in the global financial services landscape. More than 30 years ago Chase Manhattan bank ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Milestones : Future Of Terrorism Insurance Hangs In The Balance

United states Most companies take out some form of professional indemnity, liability and business insurance, but the latest addition to companies’ insurance portfolios is property terrorism insurance. Such products are becoming increasingly prevalent among larger to mid-size US ...

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Milestones : London Takes The Lead For Commerce

Global London: The "epicenter of world commerce" London is perhaps best known for major tourist attractions such as Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge and Madame Tussaud’s, but now it has a new moniker as the epicenter of commerce globally, ...