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Milestone: Slovenia: Next In Line For A Bailout?

MILESTONES: SLOVENIA By Valentina Pasquali With all eyes on the much larger Spain and Italy, Slovenia might actually turn out to be the next eurozone country in line for a bailout. Bets are on as to whether ...

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Risk Management: Business Continuity

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED By Paula Green Recent natural disasters in Japan and Thailand highlight the need for companies to insure against business interruption. Photo Credits: RUCHOS / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM About the only sure thing risk managers and their insurers ...

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Treasury And Trade: Cash Forecasting

HIGH TECH MEETS THE LAW OF INERTIA By Paula Green Treasurers wanting to move to high-end forecasting solutions still face an uphill challenge. Even when a treasurer wants to move to a high-end system for forecasting cash, ...

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Treasury And Trade: Convergence

THE STARS ALIGN By Rebecca Brace As treasurers seek to optimize liquidity and working capital, cash and trade solutions are increasingly in sync. Treasury and trade used to be two separate disciplines. But in recent years there ...

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Treasury And Trade: Winners’ Circle Trade Finance

DOMINANT REGIONAL PLAYERS By Kathryn Tully Since 2002, Global Finance has honored the best trade finance banks by region and by country based on a number of criteria, including technological innovation, transaction volumes, global coverage, customer service and ...

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SIBOS 2012 – BPOs Embraced By BP Chemicals

First and foremost, it reduces administration and documentation, and vastly reduces the time-to-payment on secured trade account receivables. With an...

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SIBOS 2012 – Is Trade Becoming An Asset Class?

Is trade becoming an asset class? Some market participants are pushing in that direction. This, of course, is easier said...

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SIBOS 2012 – Regulatory Arbitrage Ultimately Costs Corporates

The impact of Basel III on trade was a key topic of discussion at Sibos. As one delegate said: “We...

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SIBOS 2012 – SWIFT Alliance Lite2 Eases Corporate Access

Gone are the days when companies wishing to connect directly with their banks via SWIFT had to invest huge resources—in...

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SIBOS 2012 – Corporates Pay Too Much For Cross-Currency Payments

The cost of cross-currency payments is more than it need be, contends Rocky Motwani, MD at J. P. Morgan. He...

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SIBOS 2012 – SWIFT In The Cloud Gains Traction With Corporates

Mark Flawn, assistant treasurer at National Grid, said cloud-based access fit with a group-wide initiative to use remotely hosted solutions....

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AFP 2012 – Cyber Risk: Are Your Accounts Secure?

Security is never far from the lips when any new technology developments arise, and technology developments were, as always, at...