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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Best Online Foreign Exchange Trading Systems

By Gordon Platt BEST ONLINE FOREIGN EXCHANGE TRADING SYSTEMS BANK SYSTEM State Street’s Currenex The Currenex foreign exchange trading platform uses patented technology to match orders and aggregate liquidity. Its high-speed, low-latency API (application programming interface) provides access to live, ...

Award Ceremonies and Events

Best Internet Banks Awards Ceremony

AWARDS CEREMONY: LOCATION NEW YORK CITY Representatives of most of the first-round winners of The World’s Best Internet Banks awards joined Global Finance on November 3 at the Harvard Club in New York City for the ninth annual Best ...

Banking

Special Report: AFP Conference

AUTOMATION, TAXATION AND RISK REDUCTION BY Denise Bedell Risk management and technology were key themes of the annual AFP conference in Boston in November. Jegher, Celent: Only a fraction of banks now offer corporate mobile banking solutions The annual ...

Award Winners

The World’s Best Internet Banks Round 2

EVOLUTION AND INNOVATION By Adam Rombel The awards go to both large international and local banks—showing that technology creates new opportunities and a global playing field. In this, the second of a two-part series, Global Finance recognizes the best ...

Award Winners

The World’s Best Internet Banks Round 1

ANNUAL SURVEY: GOING MAINSTREAM By Adam Rombel In the first of a two-part series, Global Finance identifies the best online corporate and consumer banks. Internet banking is no longer just an alternative channel. In the first of ...

Banking

Virtual Competition Presents A Real Challenge

TECHNOLOGY— SIBOS 2011 By Anita Hawser Banks are facing growing competition from technologically advanced nonbanks as customers seek more convenience and higher service levels. Imagine a world where money is no longer thought of as something physical ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Technology And Treasury Management

A TREASURER’S BEST FRIEND With cash visibility and control more important than ever, and with risk management becoming an increasing part of the corporate treasurer’s job, technology is playing an ever more pivotal role. As its sophistication grows, treasury ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Technology And Treasury Management: Managing FX Exposure

EXPOSING FOREIGN EXCHANGE RISK By Denise Bedell Companies with international operations are looking beyond spreadsheets to get a timelier view of their global FX exposures. Within a few hours of Osama bin Laden’s being killed, global markets ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

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

Award Winners

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 ...