Banking Archives

Join the global community of corporate and public-sector finance industry leaders reading Global Finance monthly in print.

Click Here

Banking

A MERE BLIP FOR REAL-TIME PAYMENTS IN CHINA?

TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT | REAL-TIME PAYMENTS A delay in the rollout of the China International Payments System looks to be only a temporary hiccup in the renminbi’s unfolding internationalization.

Award Winners

BEST INTERNET BANKS 2014 ROUND 1

In this first installment of a two-part series, Global Finance identifies the top online corporate and consumer banks by country and then by region, according to product or service category.

Banking

COULD PANAMA BE A GLOBAL MONETARY POLICY MODEL?

TRENDS | SNAPSHOT: PANAMA

Banking

ECUADOR TO LAUNCH ITS OWN “BITCOIN,” BANS RIVALS

TRENDS | DIGITAL CURRENCIES Ecuador is gearing up for the launch of a new digital currency that will go into use as early as October alongside the US dollar, the country’s official tender.

Banking

GETTING MORE MILEAGE FROM SEPA PAYMENTS

TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT | PAYMENTS: POST-SEPA The SEPA migration deadline may have passed, but most companies have yet to gain the full benefits offered by the Single Euro Payments Area initiative. Now would be a good time for treasurers to ask how they can get more out of their SEPA investments.

Banking

GLOBAL CASH 25: TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING

TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT | GLOBAL FINANCE CASH 25 The Global Finance Cash 25 ranks public companies by cash, cash equivalents and short-term securities on their balance sheets. Data is gathered from more than 70,000 public companies worldwide. It is a ranking of nonfinancial corporations—we exclude financial institutions from the list.

Banking

NO MORE FALSE DAWNS IN TAIWAN

COUNTRY REPORT | TAIWAN Taiwan’s bright fundamentals are underpinned by a revival in both export and import demand, but could a housing bubble be on the horizon?

Banking

SQUARE ONE FOR BANKS’ LIVING WILLS

TRENDS | US BANKING

Banking

TRANSACTION BANKING: THE NEW NORMAL

TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT | GLOBAL TRANSACTION BANKING With transaction banks in a state of global change, what is the impact for corporates?

Banking

TREASURY & CASH 2014: STILL ON THE SIDELINES

TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT | ABOUT THE SUPPLEMENT I would like to say that there has been a big change over the past year in terms of how companies are making use of their cash. But that is not the case.

Banking

UPSTART BRICS DEVELOPMENT BANK TAKES ON THE IMF

THE BRICS Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa now have something more in common than rapidly developing economies that have recently stalled. In July they gave life to the New Development Bank (NDB), the first multilateral institution controlled by developing countries.

Banking

US EX-IM BANK FACES AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE

UNITED STATES In its 2013 report to Congress, the Export-Import Bank of the United States says that its “overriding mission is to create and sustain American jobs by supporting US exports.” But that very mission is under threat, with House Financial Services Committee chairman Jeb Hensarling, among others, seeking to abolish the bank.