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SIBOS: SWIFT For Corporates

BEYOND CONNECTIVITY By Rebecca Brace SWIFT continues to roll out new company-focused initiatives as its corporate user-base grows. As SWIFT’s corporate membership figures rise—the number currently stands at around 970–the bank-owned cooperative is working on a number ...

Award Winners

Best Internet Banks 2012: Country Winners

By Adam Rombel Country Winners: Best Corporate/Institutional Internet Banks Country Winners: Best Consumer Internet Banks World's Best Internet Banks Back To Main Article Best Internet Banks: Regional Subcategory Winners

Award Winners

Best Internet Banks 2012: Regional Subcategory Winners

By Adam Rombel Regional Subcategory Winners: Best Corporate/Institutional Internet Banks Regional Subcategory Winners: Best Consumer Internet Banks World's Best Internet Banks Back To Main Article Best Internet Banks: Country Winners

Award Winners

Best Internet Banks 2012: Round 1

ANNUAL SURVEY: TRAILBLAZERS By Adam Rombel In the first of a two-part series, Global Finance identifies the top online corporate and consumer banks by country and regionally by product and service category. As it has annually for ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Risk Management: Cyber Risk

COVER UP By Paula Green Insuring against cyber risks is stoking the imaginations of insurance companies as the risks to multinationals expand. However, companies should check what policies cover them for. Cyber risks are increasingly edging their ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Treasury & Cash Management 2012

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Top 25 Lists: 25 Companies to Watch In The Next 25 Years

SUCCESSORS By Justin Keay Who would have predicted back in 1987 that Apple would today be one of the world's most dynamic and innovative companies? And Google, which emerged from nowhere back in 1998 but now dominates much more ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Top 25 Lists: 25 Most Influential Companies Over The Past 25 Years

SUCCESSES By Laurence Neville A quick glance at the Fortune 500 for 1987 and 2012 reveals a number of similarities in the ranking of the largest companies in the US: ExxonMobil, GM, Ford, GE and AT&T all feature prominently ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Top 25 Lists: 25 Most Influential People of The Past 25 Years

INNOVATION By Laurence Neville No list of influential figures of the past quarter-century would be complete without Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev, US president Ronald Reagan and British prime minister Margaret Thatcher—the three most important figures in ending the key ...

Features

Words Of Wisdom: Carlo Bozotti, STMicroelectronics

INNOVATION AND CONSUMERIZATION By Andrea Fiano Carlo Bozotti has been the president and CEO of STMicroelectronics since 2005. His company, like Global Finance, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. It is one of the world's leading electronics and ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Annual Supplement: Technology & Treasury Management 2012

ENGINES OF GROWTH The world of corporate treasury is changing. Increasing international growth among developing-markets companies is causing a revolution in how companies manage cash and liquidity—and thus how banks market their transaction products and services. While global banks continue ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Chinese Slowdown And Cyber Attacks: Key Risks For 2012

MILESTONES: GLOBAL By Valentina Pasquali Our level of preparedness is not always up to par with the challenges we may be suddenly confronted with. Still recovering from the Haiti earthquake Photo Credit : ARINDAMBANERJEE / Shutterstock.com This is a hard-learned ...