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Winners’ Circle: World’s Best Islamic Finance Institutions

DISTINGUISHING GLOBAL GROWTH By Kathryn Tully Global Finance’ s most recently instituted awards acknowledging the best Islamic finance institutions globally, by region and by country only began in 2008, but in that relatively short time, a number of ...

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Foreign Exchange 2012

Emerging & Frontier Markets

SIBOS 2012 – Asian Companies Centralize Treasury To Manage Global Growth

Chinese corporates are still focusing on domestic growth—but also starting to set up manufacturing bases worldwide. They are moving up...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

SIBOS 2012 – BPOs Embraced By BP Chemicals

First and foremost, it reduces administration and documentation, and vastly reduces the time-to-payment on secured trade account receivables. With an...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

SIBOS 2012 – Is Trade Becoming An Asset Class?

Is trade becoming an asset class? Some market participants are pushing in that direction. This, of course, is easier said...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

SIBOS 2012 – Regulatory Arbitrage Ultimately Costs Corporates

The impact of Basel III on trade was a key topic of discussion at Sibos. As one delegate said: “We...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

SIBOS 2012 – SWIFT Alliance Lite2 Eases Corporate Access

Gone are the days when companies wishing to connect directly with their banks via SWIFT had to invest huge resources—in...

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Supply Chain Finance Moves Beyond The Standalone

Banks and suppliers have been talking up end-to-end supply chain finance solutions for a number of years now, but in...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

SIBOS 2012 – Corporates Pay Too Much For Cross-Currency Payments

The cost of cross-currency payments is more than it need be, contends Rocky Motwani, MD at J. P. Morgan. He...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

SIBOS 2012 – SWIFT In The Cloud Gains Traction With Corporates

Mark Flawn, assistant treasurer at National Grid, said cloud-based access fit with a group-wide initiative to use remotely hosted solutions....

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Trade Flows Little-Affected By Japan-China Dispute

Trade flows between China and Japan have notyetbeen materially affected by an ongoing territorial dispute, according to Sibos attendees. John...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

AFP 2012 – Cyber Risk: Are Your Accounts Secure?

Security is never far from the lips when any new technology developments arise, and technology developments were, as always, at...