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Technology And Treasury Management: Mobile Banking

THE NEXT FRONTIER By Anita Hawser Take-up of mobile banking services is accelerating as services—and the devices they run on—become ever more sophisticated. At an annual gathering of the world’s largest corporate and investment banks held in ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Technology And Treasury Management: Working Capital Management

THE WORKING CAPITAL TRANSFORMATION By Denise Bedell Companies are looking to technology to help them delve deeper into their working capital processes. The debate that has long raged over whether enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can compare ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Technology & Treasury Management 2011

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Best Investment Banks 2011: Best Legal Advisers

Best Legal Advisers Global Skadden Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, which operates under the brand name Skadden, was the number-one legal adviser on global mergers and acquisitions announced in 2010, according to Thomson Reuters. Skadden advised on 227 deals ...

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Best Investment Banks 2011: Country Winners

Country Winners North America Canada Scotia Capital Scotia Capital is the global corporate and investment banking and capital markets arm of Scotiabank, the most international bank in Canada. Scotia Capital handled the three largest debt financings in Canada in 2010, ...

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Best Investment Banks 2011: Deals Of The Year

Deals of the Year Best Equity Deal: Petrobras $70 Billion Stock Sale Lead manager: Banco Bradesco BBI Global bookrunners: Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citi, Santander, Morgan Stanley and Itaú BBA. The $70 billion add-on equity offering on September ...

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Best Investment Banks 2011: Global Winners

Global Winners Best Investment Bank Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley’s broad-based strength in equity underwriting and financial advisory work on mergers and acquisitions worldwide is unparalleled. The investment bank’s only relative weakness is in the fixed-income area, which it is working ...

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Best Investment Banks 2011: Regional Winners

Regional Winners North America Best Investment Bank Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley’s strengths in the equity and M&A; advisory businesses make it the clear leader in North American investment banking. Not only did it lead General Motors’ $18.1 billion initial public ...

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Best Investment Banks 2011: Sector Winners

Sector Winners Consumer Credit Suisse Credit Suisse advised on Coca-Cola’s $12.3 billion purchase of the North American operations of bottler Coca-Cola Enterprises. Credit Suisse also managed the $700 million initial public offering of Indfood CBP. Financial Institutions Bank of America ...

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The World’s Best Investment Banks 2011

ANNUAL SURVEY : BEST INVESTMENT BANKS By Gordon Platt Constant innovation and unwavering commitment to the business have helped the world’s leading investment banks better serve their clients and build their market share. The investment banking industry ...

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Social Change

TECHNOLOGY: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE By Denise Bedell Mobile and social networking technologies are helping bring heavy-duty analytical capabilities to every level of a business. Anyone who thought social networking was useful only for catching up with old school ...

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Corporate Toolbox: Cyber Security

CYBERSECURITY: HIDDEN THREAT By Anita Hawser Recent increases in cyberattacks have raised alarming questions over corporate network security. In February 2010 the Kneber botnet virus infected more than 70,000 computers globally, including some at US government ...