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June 2016 12 Min Read

Doing More with Less: Treasury Priorities in the Middle East

Doing More with Less: Treasury Priorities in the Middle East   The following is an edited transcript of the first part of a roundtable held in Dubai in April 2016, kindly hosted by D+H and chaired by Jags KothandaPani, Citi. In this first part, the panel focuses...

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May 2016 13 Min Read

A Sleeping Giant with One Eye Open

A Sleeping Giant with One Eye Open by Helen Sanders, Editor For the past decade, Africa has been feted as a nascent economic powerhouse whose wealth of natural resources, infrastructure investment, increasing productivity and growing international trade offered...

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March 2016 16 Min Read

The Next Generation of Asian Treasuries?

The Next Generation of Asian Treasuries? by Helen Sanders, Editor, TMI One of the most significant outcomes of globalisation and the development of markets in Asia is the emergence of Asian multinationals as companies with a strong domestic presence pursue growth...

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March 2016 8 Min Read

Winning the Africa Marathon

Winning the Africa Marathon by Geoffrey Gursel, Sub-Saharan Africa Sales Head, Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citi Until very recently, Africa was considered the uncut diamond in the treasure chest of global growth. Over the past decade, GDP in the 11 largest countries...

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March 2016 4 Min Read

What Next for the Eurozone?

What Next for the Eurozone? by Brian Hayes MEP, Member of the Economic Committee of the European Parliament Eight years after the onset of the financial crisis and despite having come through it, the Eurozone still faces enormous economic problems as unemployment is...

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January 2016 5 Min Read

CIPS – China’s Hybrid Net Settlement Clearing System

CIPS will replace the current arrangement for offshore CNY which uses designated clearing banks. CIPS does not replace SWIFT, but  uses SWIFT messaging and formats. The net result is faster and more reliable cross-border CNY payments for all users. What is CIPS?...

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December 2015 8 Min Read

Managing Treasury in a New Climate

Managing Treasury in a New Climate by Helen Sanders, Editor, in conversation with Oscar Mazza, Head of Latin America Sales, Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citi It doesn’t seem so long ago that the media was full of references to the ‘BRIC’ miracle,...

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December 2015 6 Min Read

Treasury Techniques Underpin Asian Growth

Treasury Techniques Underpin Asian Growth  by KK Tay, Head of Global Transaction Banking Asia Pacific, UniCredit Under the banner of the renminbi (RMB), Asian influence continues to spread throughout the world. As corporates in China and the rest of Asia seek to...

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October 2015 4 Min Read

Standard Bank Helps Clients Across the African Continent

Standard Bank Helps Clients Across the African Continent by Rob Porter, Head of FIC Sales, Global Markets Division, Standard Bank and Themba Rikhotso, Head of Cash Management Sales, Transactional Products and Services (TPS), Standard Bank Standard Bank’s ability...

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September 2015 7 Min Read

Indian Challenges and Opportunities

Indian Challenges and Opportunities by Neil Ainger, freelance journalist & treasury writer The Indian economy is expected to grow 7.4% in 2015, according to the World Bank, aided by a liberalising new government that wants to integrate it further into the global...

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September 2015 6 Min Read

The Global Surge in Latin America Pension Funds

The Global Surge in Latin America Pension Funds by Moises Vidal, Director, Treasury Sales Manager, Latin America Financial Institutions, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Tom Avazian, Managing Director, Global Banking and Markets Product Executive, Bank of...

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September 2015 6 Min Read

A Time of Opportunities in Latin America

A Time of Opportunities in Latin America by Juan Pablo Cuevas, Head of Global Transaction Services, Latin America and the Caribbean, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Those of us holding our breath for a surge in Latin American economic growth may have to wait a while...

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