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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Bank of America Merrill Lynch today announced it has completed the transition of all existing information reporting clients from various older systems to its new CashPro Information Reporting system. These clients a
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Citi China announced today the launch of its commercial cards programme in China by its Citi Transaction Services division, making it the first global bank to offer such capabilities to its large corporate and multi
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Debit cards continue to gain market share from credit cards, and the use of electronic and mobile payments continues to show exponential growth concludes the World Payments Report 2012 released today by Capgemini, R
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The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, Citi and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, have agreed to provide a US$175m three-year revolving credit facility covering short ter
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Richard Southey, Head of Cash Management, Africa, Barclays and Absa concludes in his introduction to this detailed handbook that: 'For any corporate looking to do business in Africa.....treasurers should be mindful
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SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 10,000 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in 212 countries and territories, today announced that a new Asia Pacific corporate
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Standard Chartered Bank today announced that it was rolling out a series of cash management enhancements that significantly improves the ability to manage working capital. Tehey are designed to deliver increased vis
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Trading systems monitoring and risk management leader Corvil today announced the availability of a monitoring solution aimed at the FX and Equities markets in Asia.
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Bloomberg provides access to its U.S. equity pool as part of a new service called Bloomberg Pool, or BPool. Developed in conjunction with BIDS Trading, BPool enables traders to interact with liquidity present on Blo
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Standard Chartered Bank today announced that it had launched an integrated direct and regional custody platform for its investor and intermediary clients to capture growth opportunities in the fast-growing markets a
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JP Morgan Treasury Services has expanded its global escrow services to Vietnam, providing clients with an additional risk management solution across financial transactions.
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MORS Software, a provider of real-time treasury and risk management for banks, 2012 Liquidity Risk Management survey, conducted between 4 May and 15 July 2012, covered sixty-one banking professionals from 26 countri
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ANZ is preparing to launch an iOS app that will enable corporate customers to manage their Australian and New Zealand cash management activities on the go.
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Sukuk issuance utilizes a number of different shariah structures all making use of the purchase undertaking. Sukuk issuance is booming: Global sukuk issuance exceeded $85bn last year,
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The German cabinet has announced its intention to push ahead with Basel III regulations for its financial service providers, despite ongoing concerns about the rules from the country's banks.
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J.P. Morgan has executed Hong Kong's first HKD tri-party repo transaction between Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited ( and Barclays Bank plc, the first such trade following the launch of the Hong Kong Monetary Author
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Barclays PLC and South Africa's Absa Group Ltd. are in discussions to combine their Africa-based assets, a move they hope will accelerate the banks' expansion across the continent. Barclays, which has a 55.5% shareh
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Launched in the UK earlier this year, Pingit is a person-to-person payment service that enables people to send and receive money using mobile phone numbers.
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Dennis Sweeney has been named managing director and a Treasury Solutions Executive at the Global Transaction Services business of BofA Merrill. He will join in September and be based in New York.
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Vantage FX is the first, and only Australian regulated financial services firm offering the completely new MT5 trading software in a live trading environment.
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NEW YORK: Bank of America Merrill Lynch today announced it has added Notional Pooling to its Global Liquidity Platform. Companies can utilize single and multi-currency notional pooling solutions to reduce capital co
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The partners - Thomson Reuters, GFI Group and SDIC Trust - feel that they meet the prerequisites required to obtain an application for a licence and are preparing to file with regulators for the Beijing-based JV.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation foundation commissioned pollster Gallup to carry out face-to-face interviews with 1000 adults in each of 11 sub-Saharan countries: Botswana, Congo, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, S
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Bloomberg has launched a global portal providing interactive, continuously updated industry research and data from a team of more than 100 professionals. Bloomberg Industries (BI) will cover over 100 industries in N
