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IMF Admits Greek Mistakes While Europe Sticks Its Head In The Sand
While the Greek economy remains too weak to meet the goals laid down in the current bailout package, a highly...
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Emerging Markets Dented, Not Doomed, By Fed Easing
If you attended to the teeth gnashing and handwringing following the Federal Reserve’s announcement that it is considering a gradual...
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Global Corporate Cash Survey 2013
Global Finance to Publish First-Ever Global Corporate Cash Survey Companies Ranked by Cash on Balance Sheet, Global Finance Cash 25...
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World’s Best Corporate/Institutional Internet Banks in Central & Eastern Europe 2013
Global Finance names the 2013 World’s Best Corporate/Institutional Internet Banks in Central & Eastern Europe NEW YORK, July 23, 2013...
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World’s Best Consumer Internet Banks in Central & Eastern Europe 2013
Global Finance names the 2013 World’s Best Consumer Internet Banks in Central & Eastern Europe NEW YORK, July 18, 2013...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Country Report: Portugal
MODEL FOR GROWTH? By Vanessa Drucker The Troika’s “darling of reform” is in its third year of recession. Citizens—and policy-makers—want to see the promised economic rebound. Portugal and the European Union depend on one another. On the one ...
Banking
Equity: Companies Raise More DR Capital
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt The pace of capital raising using depositary receipts has accelerated sharply from last year, and the pipeline of future issues is strong, DR bankers say. Much of the recent activity ...
Banking
Regional Report: Central Asia
DESPERATE TO DIVERSIFY By Kim Iskyan The countries of central Asia are working hard to become more than one-trick ponies, as each struggles in its own way to reduce economic reliance on a single growth driver. The five ...
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World’s Best Subcustodians 2013: Country Winners
<p>COUNTRY WINNERS Argentina Citi Armenia Ameriabank Australia HSBC Austria UniCredit Bank Austria Bahrain HSBC Belgium KBC Brazil Itaú Unibanco Canada CIBC Mellon Chile Banco de Chile China Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Commercial Bank of China Colombia Citi Croatia ...</p>
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World’s Best Subcustodians 2013: Regional Winners
By Gordon Platt NORTH AMERICA Citi Lee Waite: The rules of the game are not static Citi is the largest subcustodian in the US, the world’s biggest subcustody market. The bank also has the largest proprietary network in the industry, ...
Features
Payment Instruments: Card Payments
<p>According to the Bank for International Settlements, card-based payment products are electronic money products that provide the customer with a portable, specialized computer device, typically an integrated circuit card containing a microprocessor chip. Data is from the Bank for International ...</p>
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Payment Instruments: Checks
<p>According to the Bank for International Settlements, a check is a written order from one party (the drawer) to another (the drawee, normally a bank) requiring the drawee to pay a specified sum on demand to the drawer or to ...</p>