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Technology & Treasury Management: Bank Payment Obligations

BANKING ON BPOS By Paula L. Green Bank Payment Obligations could change the way that companies manage their global supply chains, making it easier and safer to work with new suppliers in risky markets. But acceptance takes time. ...

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Technology & Treasury Management: E-Invoicing

NOVEL SOLUTIONS By Paula L. Green E-invoicing is taking a quantum leap forward. New solutions help companies tackle age-old issues, such as how to stay compliant in an ever more complex regulatory landscape. Electronic invoices are helping ...

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Technology & Treasury Management: Liquidity Management

THE NEW ONE-STOP SHOP By Rebecca Brace Liquidity management is the latest corporate treasury process to get the one-stop-shop treatment by big banks and solution vendors. A few years have passed since the financial crisis propelled liquidity ...

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Technology & Treasury Management 2012

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Africa’s Rising Consumer Class

LAND OF OPPORTUNITY By Antonio Guerrero A number of African markets may be on the verge of massive growth—fueled by a rising consumer class. Given the long-standing reputation for political and economic volatility in some African markets, ...

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Awards: World’s Best Banks 2012

SEEKING STABILITY By Thomas Clouse, Jonathan Gregson, Antonio Guerrero & Gordon Platt Global Finance presents its 19th annual awards for the best banks in the developed and emerging markets. The global financial system is out of the recovery room ...

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Cash Management: Supply Chain Finance

THE NEW SILK ROAD By Anita Hawser Supply chain finance is becoming a critical tool in funding fast-growing Southern corridor trade. The ancient Silk Road, one of the world’s oldest trade routes, increased the importance of Southern ...

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CEE: Liberal Markets And the Crisis

A REGION IN TRANSITION By Vanessa Drucker Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, former Iron Curtain countries have embarked on a long road toward liberal market economies. Since the 1990s—during their accession to the European Union ...

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Company to Watch: ŞIŞECAM / Turkey

TURKEY’S LEADING GLASSMAKER EXPANDS ABROAD By Gordon Platt Glassmaker iecam has a near monopoly on the glass market in Turkey, where it operates a chain of retail outlets for its Paabahçe brand of glassware, and where its flat-glass output ...

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Country Report: Turkey

GREAT EXPECTATIONS By Justin Keay The government has lofty aspirations for Turkish growth, but reform and demographic development are necessary for the nation’s economy to reach its potential. The coming year could be a good one for ...

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Cover Story: China In Europe

WITH A COOL HAND By Laurence Neville China is taking advantage of the European crisis to make strategic investments in the Continent and encourage companies to pick up cheap assets. But the Asian nation is taking a slow ...

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Debt: Bond Market Rally Continues

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said recently that improvements in the US labor market might not be sustained because of weak economic growth and signaled that the Fed was likely to ...