Effective liquidity management is as much an art as a science. The main objectives of cash and liquidity management are to free up all the company's cash whilst minimising processing costs, to…
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Citi has extended its Common Depository services to Asia Pacific following the appointment by Euroclear Bank and Clearstream, the International Securities Depositories (ICSDs), to provide sub-
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SWIFT, today announced that the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) systems have gone live on SWIFTNet in Macau and Taiwan.
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HSBC has implemented a renminbi (RMB) cross-border payments and collections solution for a Fortune 500 company in China. It provides a centralised approach to cash management by enabling
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A new report by Greenwich Associates claims that Basel III bank capital adequacy requirements are poised to increase pricing on trade finance. Greenwich suggests that this could accelerate the
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Cindy Fryer, Senior Director-Treasury, Endo Health Solutions presented at AFP Annual Conference 2012 her 10 tips for ensuring debt compliance which included:
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Betty Fan, senior consultant at Element Consulting Group in the USA, an advisor of shipping companies and manufacturers, in an article in 'the corporate treasurer', recommends an integrated approach from all busines
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The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) plc today announced the launch of the RBS SEPA Accelerator; a new solution to help clients quickly and cost-effectively migrate to mandatory SEPA standards.
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Payroll payments in the new SEPA Credit Transfer XML formats have to work from 1 February 2014. The rest is detail.
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In September 2012 Citi's chief economist put the likelihood of Greece leaving the euro within 18 months at 90%. These concerns on Greece and the Euro zone have lessened, but they have not gone away.
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As Basel III regulations come into play, banks are looking to manage their bulk balance sheets by divesting their trade finance assets, creating a gap in the market.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Citi has added the renminbi (RMB) to its Multi-Currency Notional Pooling service in London.
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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.
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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)
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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
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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
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Companies in the Middle East are looking for maximum security in trade transactions after being doubly hit by the financial crisis and the Arab Spring. Middle East companies and banks are being extremely cautious wh
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China's forex regulators issued a new guideline on January 28 simplifying repatriation of IPO
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RGI, posted another new high of 748 in December, up 2.8% from November's 728 in part due to
