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New Partnerships

EM REGIONAL BANKING FOCUS: AFRICA By Nick Kochan Africa's banks are looking to forge new links as they seek to expand across the continent. The African banking industry has emerged from the global financial crisis largely intact ...

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Shifting Sands

EM REGIONAL BANKING FOCUS: MIDDLE EAST By Jonathan Gregson Many banks in the Middle East are still suffering the after-effects of the global financial crisis. Over the past decade the Middle East's banking sector has become ...

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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, ...

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SIBOS: Asian Transaction Banking

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT By Denise Bedell Corporates are demanding increasingly sophisticated cash and trade solutions within Asia. Those banks that want to stay competitive must step up their game. Asia is a key growth area for transaction banking ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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SIBOS: Supply Chain Finance

CHANGE MANAGEMENT By Denise Bedell Banks are changing the way they look at their own transaction business to help companies see further into their working capital management processes. The need for integrated trade and cash solutions was ...

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Slow Recovery

EM REGIONAL BANKING FOCUS: CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE By Jonathan Gregson Hit hard during the financial crisis, Central and Eastern Europe's banking sector is still fragile and vulnerable to external shocks. During the boom times of ...

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World Beaters

COVER STORY: ANNUAL SURVEY – WORLD'S BEST BANKS 2010 By Gordon Platt Global Finance unveils its annual list of the best banks globally, regionally and by country. Investors, depositors and corporations are concerned about the health of ...

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World’s Biggest Banks 2010

ANNUAL SURVEY: WORLD'S BIGGEST BANKS by Dan Keeler Global Finance ranks the world’s 50 biggest banks, as measured by total assets After a tumultuous three years, characterized by colossal write-downs, credit ratings downgrades, nationalizations, bailouts and hurriedly ...

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World’s Safest Banks 2010

ANNUAL SURVEY: SAFEST BANKS by Dan Keeler Global Finance selects the world's safest banks—the 50 institutions with the highest ratings from the leading international credit ratings agencies—and the safest banks in seven regions. It is a measure ...

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WORLD’S 50 BIGGEST BANKS 2010

Global Finance ranks the 50 Biggest Banks Top 10 see $3.2 trillion drop in assets NEW YORK, September 13, 2010...