by Kylene Casanova
Asia's banks need to lift service levels to their institutional customers or face an increasing risk of losing them, according to the latest research from industry specialists East & Partners. Their twice yearly Asi
by Kylene Casanova
Corporate treasury is rightly concerned over FTTs. It is not just the looming (in early 2014) EU FTT, there are also proposals to introduce one in the USA. M-Pesa, the mobile payment system in Kenya, has just had on
by Kylene Casanova
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has introduced an innovative financial instrument to help China internationalize its currency, issuing the first renminbi-denominated note under its global discount note progra
by Kylene Casanova
The results of the Greenwich Associates conducted interviews with 3,125 financial officers (e.g., CFOs, finance directors and treasurers) at corporations and financial institutions with sales in excess of 500 millio
by Kylene Casanova
AFP's annual risk survey of 327 senior finance and treasury professionalsin November 2012 found that developing a sustainable competitive advantage in an increasingly uncertain environment is the
by Kylene Casanova
Deutsche Bank today announced that it has jointly developed and implemented a unique cash management solution with General Electric's Treasury team in Japan. They have customised NTT
by Kylene Casanova
Patricia Greenfield, Treasury Operations Manager, at AstraZeneca the global pharmaceutical company, is a lovely, kind lady, but she has zero tolerance for manual creep, use of spreadsheets, and
by Kylene Casanova
The first trade in EUR/USD was executed by a major Indian private sector bank on the EBS Market on January 24 and spot USD/INR (US dollar/Indian rupee) is now available for onshore bank customers to trade.
by Kylene Casanova
Citi has added the renminbi (RMB) to its Multi-Currency Notional Pooling service in London.
by Kylene Casanova
Service bureaux play a key role for the SWIFT community and connect a large number of SWIFT customers with their counterparties. The new Shared Infrastructure Programme (SIP) is launched in response to requests from
by Kylene Casanova
The presentation by Barclays Head of UK Corporate Payments, Mike Walters, at the Association of Corporate Treasurers Cash Management conference on 13-14 February was an important review
by Kylene Casanova
Card interchange charges - the proportion of the merchant service charge that is passed on to the card issuer - in the VISA and MasterCard card schemes has always been costly for the merchant, sometimes as much as 2
by Kylene Casanova
Short-term investment is any period up to one year. It covers:
by Kylene Casanova
OB10, the e-Invoicing network, and sharedserviceslink.com, have carried out a survey of 200 accounts receivable professionals which found that 85% agree that eliminating exceptions would be one of the most effective
by Kylene Casanova
According to the ECB Euro Area Bank Lending Survey for Q4 2012 average margins for Enterprises have widened 23% while the tightening of collateral requirements was stable.
by Kylene Casanova
American Express has launched a new service that turns Twitter hashtags into purchases. American Express cardholders who sync their eligible cards and tweet special hashtags can buy American Express gift cards and p
by Kylene Casanova
The graph on SEPA Direct Debits says it all:
by Kylene Casanova
In the 'Investing in Repos' session at the ACT's Cash Management conference last week, Repos were described as maximising the return from an under utilized asset. Repos typically need to be £10m or more in either US
by Kylene Casanova
This month China's central bank, the People's Bank of China (PBoC), appointed two additional banks – the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Singapore (ICBC Singapore) and Bank of China in Taiwan (BoC Taiwan)
by Kylene Casanova
At the Association of Corporate Treasurers Cash Management in London last week a panel made up of Maurice Cleaves - Barclays, Ian Armstrong - AMEC, Angela Clark - Misys, and Paul Outridge - De La Rue and the audienc
by Kylene Casanova
Cybercrime is big business. It is costing consumers $110bn a year and affects almost 1.5m people a day, Symantec, the online security group, reported last year. Bank accounts are being compromised; credit card detai
by Kylene Casanova
The Payment Council's report on the way the UK pays always makes interesting reading. Some of the key findings from the report are:
by Kylene Casanova
This is from a blog called Tech.pions by Ben Bajarin, Principal Analyst at Creative Strategies, Inc. He's writing about Apple's iOS (operating system) for the iPhone and the iPad. But it also applies to corporate tr
by Kylene Casanova
Since the People's Bank of China (PBC) introduced the renminbi (RMB) cross-border initiative in July 2009 to promote the internationalisation of RMB, the number of activities in Singapore for offshore RMB solutions
