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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Citibank (China) Co., Ltd. ("Citi China") today announced the completion of the first cross-border lending transaction in Renminbi (RMB) by a foreign bank in China.
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HSBC China is the first foreign bank to obtain approval from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) to implement a foreign currency netting solution for the trade of goods in China; this has been obtain
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There also a very clever 6th option, if you've got the companies to do it.
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Standard Chartered Bank (China) Limited and Shell (China) Co. Ltd. today announced that they have been granted approval to set up a Foreign Currency Cross-border Sweeping structure. The structure, approved by the Ch
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On 10 December, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) issued the final regulatory requirements for Canadian banks under Basel III, effective first quarter 2013. The announcement comes jus
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with tri-party agents - Euroclear and ClearStream - that will allow clients to consolidate
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The recent deregulation by SAFE and PBOC allows MNC groups to establish " cross-border cash pooling " structure to link it's domestic cash pool with overseas cash pools.
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This hard hitting article by Mayra Rodriguez Valladares in the American Banker starts with a question: "How do you get 27 countries with different cultures and political systems, often at different points of the cre
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Christoph Nelischer, Willis Treasurer, describing his implementation of a Asia-Pacific cash management solution at the Eurofinance conference, explained: "You really have to engage the business. Consult on all level
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The latest example of the expansion of e-cash in Africa is in Rwanda where the mobile payment platform MobiCash and financial institution KCB Bank has launched BioCash, a financial service that uses the national ID
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Volatile markets and shifting regulations require a dynamic approach to managing the treasury project queue. Treasury Alliance have put together a list of ten projects that may have slipped your list including SEPA
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You have to see this video from YouTube.. This piss take of Dick Fuld and other familiar figures from the dark days of 2008 is just great and hard hitting.
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In assisting clients with their tax preparation and compliance obligations, the use of tax technology by PwC will help to improve efficiency, accuracy and reduce risk in tax compliance. China's changing tax environm
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At the recent Cash Management University in Paris, BNP Paribas explained how there are now five ways to release trapped cash in China:
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In a session at NACHA's 2012 Global Payments Strategies Conference, Alfred Nader, vice president, corporate strategy and development at Western Union Business Solutions, urged corporates to trade in renminbi with th
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Mobilising Global Cash is the latest AFP Global Liquidity Guide. It provides key insights into common treasury objectives on mobilising global cash and the factors that are leading so many organisations to examine h
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Standard Chartered Bank has announced the launch of an Islamic version of its on-line banking platform, Straight2Bank. The enhanced platform expands client access to the Bank's Islamic products by
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The increasing risk from the rise of the non-banks as a source of finance in China is reviewed in this article in the Financial Times.
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FIS has made the first renminbi (RMB)-denominated forward freight agreement (FFA) trade
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BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research today released its 2013 Year Ahead market outlook, saying that a cloud of uncertainty is likely to overhang the markets through a painful and protracted resolution of the U.S. fisc
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The latest quarterly survey of senior finance executives conducted by Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and CFO magazine, working with Tilburg University in Europe.
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Citi, through its transaction services unit, is launching a commercial card offering in Kuwait to its local large corporate and multinational clients. With Kuwait added to the list of issuing countries, Citi Commerc
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Standard Chartered Bank (China) Limited first foreign bank for a RMB denominated loan quota
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Although there has been a move to other currencies in the past 10 years, much of the Asia-Pacific's trade, including intra-regional flows, is still invoiced, and settled in USD. And some are settled in EUR.
