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Economics, Policy & Regulation

What Corporates Want

Inside Sibos | Day 2 As this year’s corporate forum at Sibos gets underway, what topics are corporations particularly focusing on? This year’s line-up includes a discussion around corporate-to-bank connectivity and the associated challenges.

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5 Minutes w/ Joy Cave, VP & Treasurer, FM Global

Inside Sibos | Day 1 Global Finance spoke with Joy Cave, vice president and treasurer of international property insurer FM Global, about how the firm measures and manages relationships with its transaction banking partners and how that has changed in light of market and regulatory developments in recent years—both key topics of discussion for corporate treasurers attending SWIFT’s Sibos conference in Boston this week.

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Counterparty Risk In The Spotlight

Inside Sibos | Day 1 What has really changed since the global financial crisis first hit? Four years after the Dodd Frank Act was enacted in the US to help stem another bank crisis, one of the primary causes of the meltdown remains a serious concern.

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Treasury Technology Branches Out

Inside Sibos | Day 1 Having the right technology is a key requirement for corporate treasurers—but increasingly companies are looking for their technology vendors to provide additional services beyond the system itself. The evolution of technology is set to be one of the key focus points at this year’s Sibos corporate forum.

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INSIDE SIBOS 2014

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The Rise Of Intra-Day Liquidity Monitoring

Key topics at SWIFT’s Sibos conference in Boston will include the growing adoption of multibanking solutions—not only by the world’s largest corporations, but also by midcap companies, according to Andre Casterman, global head of corporate and supply chain markets at SWIFT.

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Transaction Banks Launch Internal JVs With FX

In the lead-up to SWIFT’s Sibos conference in Boston, I sat down with a number of the world’s leading transaction banks to get their take on how the banking markets are changing and what it means for corporates.

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Treasury In An Integrated World

Corporate Forum | Treasury In An Integrated World SWIFT’s Sibos conference is certainly the place where banks and financial services firms showcase their solutions and meet clients—both during the conference and at the trade show. And in the Corporate Forum, one of the conference streams which will take place on October 1 and 2, the focus is even more precise.

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Treasury & Cash Management 2014

Global Finance presents the fifth annual Technology & Treasury Management Supplement and eBook — a powerful resource that will explore the ways that innovative companies, banks and individuals are driving progress and change in the Treasury Management arena.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CHINA’S ANTI-CORRUPTION DRIVE ENSNARES M&A DEALS

CAPITAL MARKETS FOCUS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Companies around the world are stepping up their due diligence on mergers and acquisitions involving Chinese counterparties, after several major deals have been called into question as a result of Peking’s widening corruption probe.

Banking

COULD PANAMA BE A GLOBAL MONETARY POLICY MODEL?

TRENDS | SNAPSHOT: PANAMA

Banking

ECUADOR TO LAUNCH ITS OWN “BITCOIN,” BANS RIVALS

TRENDS | DIGITAL CURRENCIES Ecuador is gearing up for the launch of a new digital currency that will go into use as early as October alongside the US dollar, the country’s official tender.