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1 May 2012

...John Laurens, HSBC stresses, “China represents 11.5% of global trade (WTO, 2010), however the RMB represents just 0.3% of payments globally. This is undoubtedly out of kilter and provides a...

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1 April 2012

...to a full buyout, for instance. The journey to buyout may be a long one for some schemes – which means that now is the time to begin. [1] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7b391364-2715-11e1-b9ec-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1keoSCdJu...

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1 April 2012

...traffic through SWIFT at present, it seems highly unlikely that this proportion (equivalent to 36 companies) is exchanging eBAM messages through SWIFT. Similarly, while some treasury management system (TMS) vendors,...

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1 April 2012

...of paying more for your hedging) (2) Sign a CSA (Credit Support Annex) type bilateral agreement (with margin calls with or without ‘threshold’ or ‘daily’ terms) (3) Sign an agreement...

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1 April 2012

...up the appropriate roles, policies, and systems.” Consequently, there is now a greater awareness of the value of risk management solutions, either as part of a treasury management system (TMS)...

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1 April 2012

...service centres (SSCs) in Spain, Germany, South America and Asia, with rising personnel costs. Although we maintained a single ERP (enterprise resource planning), we had three separate instances, resulting in...

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1 April 2012

...managing myriad risks throughout this process, including counterparty, country, FX, interest rate, liquidity and regulatory risks. This is where banks such as J.P. Morgan can make a real difference by...

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1 March 2012

...The emphasis was on peer-based learning, particularly in the workshop sessions. On the first day of the event, a workshop on supply chain finance (SCF) captured the imagination of many....

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1 March 2012

Exposure Draft Hedge Accounting: Challenges or Opportunities? by Yin Toa Lee, Partner and Financial Services Leader, Ernst & Young, Financial Accounting Advisory Services, Asia Pacific Introduction The International Accounting Standard...

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1 March 2012

...would you characterise the difference in treasury objectives between incoming (i.e., foreign) and outgoing (i.e., Chinese) companies? While both foreign and Chinese companies will share the same treasury objectives, such...

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1 March 2012

...date, 159,170 Facebook users ‘like’ Citi’s page. In contrast, 365,855 ‘like’ Citi India’s page. As figure 6 illustrates, those who use social media professionally, such as LinkedIn do so mainly...

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1 March 2012

...of outliers, use of 30 day interval vs. 30 independent days, etc.). In the academic world, and even in public journals, a significant number of articles have been published since...