Investment is the placement of a company's surplus liquidity either in the financial markets or the use of the excess liquidity internally within the company. The main objective of investment is…
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Corporate treasurers and cash managers face a rapidly evolving set of new regulatory challenges arising from Basel III and money market fund reform, according to Fitch Ratings. Basel III's leverage, liquidity covera
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The Blackstone Group has launched a new business designed to tap into potential dissatisfaction with money-market funds. The new unit, Blackstone Treasury Solutions Advisors, will offer
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Citi Securities and Fund Services Sector have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ING Group (ING) in seven Central and Eastern European markets in custody and securities services
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SWIFT has reported a threefold increase in the number of brokers using its global electronic trade confirmation (GETC) solution for the automation of allocation and confirmation processes. Since the beginning of 201
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More banks are developing collateral management solutions to comply with the new regulations and to encourage their corporate clients to consolidate their collateral in their bank.
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Citi has expanded its Citi OpenInvestor suite of investment services to include Segregated Collateral Custody Accounts that help clients better mitigate counterparty risk, provide asset safety, and
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Markit and BNY Mellon have teamed up to offer securities level data and pricing points in US dollar tri-party repo market. Markit already has an offering on the US$2trn stock lending sector while BNY
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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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The traditional world of derivatives, consisting of both listed and over-the-counter (OTC) instruments, is undergoing significant change. Clearing of OTC derivatives through central counterparties has grown rapidly
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SunGard has added centralized custody and settlement services access through J.P. Morgan Clearing Corp. to their Short-Term Cash Management multi-fund cash investment solution.
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A discussion on LinkedIn showed how much confusion the existence of "manipulated" LIBORs has been causing.
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Short-term investment is any period up to one year. It covers:
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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
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The recent Treasury Strategies survey on corporate reaction to changing the basis of pricing money-market funds for valued indicate that any attempt to eliminate the constant net asset value (CNAV)
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LIBOR is currently published for ten currencies and fifteen maturities. The ACT regards the availability of reference rates such as BBA LIBOR as very important and functioning as a significant public good. For users
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The suite of new investor service solutions from Citi use their global network in over 95 countries and on-the-ground local market expertise. Core to Network 3.0 is the Integrated Custody programme that will enhance
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A recent report by Fitch says that over half of Institutional Money-Market Funds Association (IMMFA) euro MMFs by assets have adopted or publicly announced they are in the process of adopting
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Exposure to eurozone banks among US prime money-market funds (MMF) has risen once again. Data released today by Fitch has revealed that by the end of November last year, allocations at financiers based in the econom
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ICD has responded to industry-wide investor concerns about safe haven replacements for cash as the Dodd-Frank Act provision extending unlimited FDIC insurance for bank deposits expires on December 31, 2012 with the
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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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SunGard survey into the corporate treasury professionals' changing attitudes toward cash investments driven by economic, regulatory and risk concerns, following a similar survey in 2011, revealed considerable change
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Talking to suppliers and corporates attending the AFP Conference in Miami, a topic that came up repeatedly was the quality and integrity of the data used in making decisions. It doesn't matter, whether it is a long
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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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Effective lobbying by corporates and many suppliers of money market fund products and service suppliers in the US defeated the chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mary Schapiro, proposals to
