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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.

Banking

CFTC CONSIDERS REGULATING BITCOIN DERIVATIVES

Trends | CryptoCurrencies There are potential benefits that bitcoin or bitcoin-like technology—as opposed to the cryptocurrency itself—could bring to the derivatives marketplace.

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Corporate Upgrades Propel Local-Currency Bond Issues

Emerging Markets 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 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

COUNTRY REPORT | CYPRUS 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 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.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

GLUT OF EUROS COULD KEEP SINGLE CURRENCY WEAK

Trends | Foreign Exchange The global imbalance created by Europe’s huge current-account surplus and excess savings has created a glut of euros that could condemn the single currency to broad-based weakening.