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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

TRADE FINANCE: FINANCING UNMET DEMAND IN EMERGING MARKETS

Emerging Markets Trade Finance | Special Report Although barriers to trade have declined, gaining access to trade finance is challenging in some markets.

Banking

TURKISH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ROUNDTABLE: CHANGING PERCEPTIONS

At a roundtable in Istanbul in September, leading figures from Turkish banks, including the deputy governor of the Central Bank of Turkey, came together to discuss developments in the economy and financial sector.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Basel Committee Tries to Address Discrepancies in Bank Capital Ratios

Which banks are best-capitalized? The answer is not that easy, if Basel III risk-based capital ratios are the only thing looked at. It depends a lot on what is observed.

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How Google Fiber is Disrupting Infrastructure Thinking

To most people the idea of infrastructure investment denotes visions of water systems, highways and bridges, and basic general services usually relegated to municipal authorities. Recently, however, at the Canadian Council for Public Private Partnerships Conference in Toronto, a new model for infrastructure was discussed – that of the “intelligent city.”

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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 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.

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Recasting India: Entrepreneurship In The World’s Largest Democracy

Book Review 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.”

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Technology: Focus On Counterparty Risk, Private Clouds

AFP Exclusive | Q&A An interview with Paul Bramwell, SVP of treasury solutions, SunGard.

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The Bottom-Line Benefit Of Strategic Treasury

AFP Exclusive | Q&A Global Finance sits down with Diane Reyes, Global Head of Payments and Cash Management, HSBC

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US Companies Get Comfy With The Renminbi

AFP Exclusive | Q&A 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 Alberta Cefis is retiring from Scotiabank after building its global transaction banking business practically from the ground up.