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22 September 2008

...chemicals, technology, transportation and retail. Recent additions include large multinationals such as Air France, Chevron, Ebay, Google, Nokia, Samsung, Siemens, Tesco, UPS and also – increasingly – mid-sized corporates such...

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22 September 2008

...later, we talk to Ed Barrie, Group Manager for Treasury, Microsoft Corporation, to look at how Microsoft’s use of SWIFT has developed. 2006 Microsoft Treasury, based in Redmond, Washington is...

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22 September 2008

...company provides skin care, body care, makeup, fragrances, personal care, jewellery and clothing to discerning women, including a unique portfolio of internationally renowned brands, L’Bel, Esika and Cyzone, which are...

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1 September 2008

...‘static’ information, we use ‘dynamic’ information and we actively track the applicability of content to our customers. For example, with the exception of items of unlimited validity, such as glossaries,...

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1 September 2008

...declining for years, organizations with significant U.S. exports have probably benefited from stronger foreign currencies. Despite this environment, unexpected earnings impacts from foreign exchange, positive or negative, are not welcome...

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1 September 2008

...sent to over 1,400 dealers nationwide. Typically, the checks would be batched for priority shipment, but each package cost upwards of $10 to $12. So the distribution costs alone topped...

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1 September 2008

...‘correspondents’-local merchants, post offices, and lottery dealers equipped with card-swipe and barcode-reading point-of-sale (POS) terminals. These correspondents provide access to financial services in the 1,600 Brazilian municipalities (one quarter) that...

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1 September 2008

...£20m was lost due to criminal activity (up from £15m in 2005). Measures to increase security, however, are increasingly being implemented. G4S, one of the world’s leading cash services providers,...

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1 September 2008

...and what percentage of your overall transaction volume is traded electronically v. manually? At Tesco, we are primarily executing the following instruments on 360T: FX – Spot, Forwards, MFTs, Swaps...

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1 September 2008

...their internal systems than this is likely to provide. We see ‘lite’ as a wider concept, with banks, with BNP Paribas offering the future ‘Taolite’ as well as SWIFT presenting...

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1 September 2008

...events. In 2007, Treasury Strategies called upon treasurers to ‘bullet-proof’ treasury – to safeguard every dollar of cash flow throughout its lifecycle via appropriate controls, policies and procedures that identify,...

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21 July 2008

...scheme for comparison purposes; Assets held, including information relevant to each holding (such as rating, maturity, yield and price for a bond holding; company rating, number of shares); Market valuation...