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Payment Instruments: E-Payments

Electronic payment can refer just to e-commerce--or payments for buying and selling goods or services offered online--or to any type of electronic funds transfer. It includes such payment channels as direct debit, e-money, card payments, and credit transfers. Data is ...

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Payment Instruments: Direct Debits

According to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS,) a direct debit is a preauthorized debit on a payer’s bank account initiated by the payee. It is also known as a pre-authorized debit (PAD) or pre-authorized payment (PAP.) Data is from ...

Features

Payments Volumes Worldwide

According to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), a payment system consists of a set of instruments, banking procedures and, typically, interbank funds transfer systems that ensure the circulation of money. More simply, it is a system to handle the ...

Banking

Editor’s Letter: Quantitative Might

We live in a world of quantitative easing and short-term interest rates close to zero; a world where central banks have recently taken on a new role, becoming the most active institutional investors in the world...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Equity: Brazil Leads Latin American IPO Surge

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt Brazilian companies are rushing to go public despite a double-digit decline in...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Salon: Yves Zlotowski, Coface

ROLE REVERSAL By Ronald Fink Global Finance sat down with Yves Zlotowski, chief economist of the economic research department of trade risk consultancy Coface, to get his take on the investment opportu-nities and challenges of emerging markets. ...

Awards

World’s Best Supply Chain Finance Providers 2013

Global Finance Names the World’s Best Supply Chain Finance Providers 2013 NEW YORK, May 16, 2013 Global Finance magazine has...

Award Winners

World’s Best Subcustodian Banks 2013

Global Finance Names the World’s Best Subcustodian Banks 2013 NEW YORK, May 15, 2013 Global Finance magazine has released its...

Award Winners

Awards: World’s Best Banks 2013

BRIGHT STARS By Thomas Clouse, Jonathan Gregson, Antonio Guerrero & Gordon Platt Following a year that included some of the biggest scandals in banking history—the London Whale, the Libor rate-fixing scandal, widespread money laundering, insider trading, rogue trading and ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover: The Untold Cost of Cybersecurity

GROWING THREAT By Valentina Pasquali The frequency and severity of cyberattacks on businesses and organizations across the world have exploded in recent years, and so have the direct and indirect costs they inflict. Global finance executives spend ...

Banking

Milestones: BRICS Agree To Create Rival To World Bank

MILESTONES: EMERGING MARKETS By Erik Heinrich The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries have agreed to set up a development bank to better serve their economic needs and reduce their reliance on Western financial institutions. The ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Risk Management: Trade Credit Insurance

PROTECTING THE BALANCE SHEET By Paula Green Companies using trade credit insurance to secure their bottom lines are finding a marketplace with ample capacity, expanding terms—and even new players. Photo Credits: IGOR PLOTNIKOV / Shutterstock.com Trade credit ...