Features
Liquidity Management: Corporates Go Back To The Drawing Board
Cash is still king, and unlocking trapped cash or investing it for higher yield remains one of the major preoccupations of most corporate treasurers.
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Companies Prepping For Investment, M&A, Regulatory Changes
AFP EXCLUSIVE<br />
Companies across the world continue to hoard cash though their reasons for doing so are gradually changing as market confidence grows and counterparty risk slowly falls from its financial crisis peak.
Features
Recasting India: Entrepreneurship In The World’s Largest Democracy
Book Review<br />
Sengupta’s Recasting India envisions India’s real growth drivers as the millions of small entrepreneurs in the country and the "extraordinary enterprise of ordinary people.”
Features
Technology: Focus On Counterparty Risk, Private Clouds
AFP Exclusive | Q&A<br />
An interview with Paul Bramwell, SVP of treasury solutions, SunGard.
Features
The Bottom-Line Benefit Of Strategic Treasury
AFP Exclusive | Q&A<br />
Global Finance sits down with Diane Reyes, Global Head of Payments and Cash Management, HSBC
Features
US Companies Get Comfy With The Renminbi
AFP Exclusive | Q&A<br />
An interview with Dan Scanlan, regional transaction banking head for the Americas, Standard Chartered.
Banking
CEFIS’ DUAL FOCUS ON BANKING AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Management | Transaction Banking<br />
Alberta Cefis is retiring from Scotiabank after building its global transaction banking business practically from the ground up.
Banking
CFTC CONSIDERS REGULATING BITCOIN DERIVATIVES
Trends | CryptoCurrencies<br />
There are potential benefits that bitcoin or bitcoin-like technology—as opposed to the cryptocurrency itself—could bring to the derivatives marketplace.
Features
Corporate Upgrades Propel Local-Currency Bond Issues
Emerging Markets<br />
Corporate bond markets denominated in domestic currencies are developing rapidly in many emerging markets, enabling local companies to issue debt without having to worry about repaying it in revalued dollars.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
CROSS-BORDER M&A DOUBLES AS COMPANIES ENTER NEW MARKETS
Capital Markets | Mergers & Acquisitions<br />
Global cross-border mergers and acquisitions totaled $1.1trillion during the first nine months of 2014, more than double the level of the same period a year earlier, according to Thomson Reuters.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
CYPRUS BEGINS LONG ROAD TO RECOVERY
<b>COUNTRY REPORT | CYPRUS</b><br />
Amid continuing harsh austerity measures, things are—very slowly—starting to recover, alongside restructuring that will change the focus of the economy. GDP in 2014 should contract by 3.5% before flattening out next year, with 0.2% growth forecast.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
FOCUS ON M&A DUE DILIGENCE
Management | Compliance Risk<br />
Corporations are stepping up their efforts to mitigate execution risk in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, as growing numbers of regulators worldwide are becoming more stringent about enforcing antitrust and anticorruption laws.