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Transaction banks vye for a slice of the remittances market
One aspect of the cross-border payments business that global transaction banks have failed to monopolise is remittances. Estimates from the...Read More >>
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SEPA - A walk down a blind alley?
Guest writer, Paul Styles, wholesale product marketing manager, ACI Worldwide, says the European Commission has set banks yet...
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What EU airport regulators can and should learn from SEPA
"The European single sky". In the wake of the volcanic ash disaster that brought European skies to a standstill, experts are calling for a...Read More >>
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Paying the price of electronic payments
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Curb your enthusiasm
The business case for SEPA continues to weaken, and many banks have no incentive to migrate as their own national payment schemes are...
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Making the right moves
Post-crisis volatility is making corporate treasurers look again at FX. But are they still willing to hand over management of their FX risk...
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Transaction banks vye for a slice of the remittances market
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Cash may be king, but it won't all be plain sailing for transaction banks
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Corporate treasurers don't believe bank stress tests.
European corporate treasurers are sceptical of bank stress tests, describing them as a joke.Read More >>
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Are cash-rich corporates hoarding cash unnecessarily?
According to a Treasury Strategies report, US companies are hoarding $1.8 trillion in cash, which some suggest may be prolonging the...Read More >>
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EuroFinance Geneva - Corporates reassess relationship with banks
Credit may still be an essential component of corporate treasurers' relationship with their core banks, but they are also more open to...
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Streamlining payments for corporate customers
The new ISO 20022 payment standard means more streamlined and standardised payment processes for corporates. Yet while there is corporate...
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Sibos Amsterdam: SEPA, still on a road to nowhere and still confused
At today's session on Achieving Full SEPA migration, confusion appeared to reign as to whether the credit transfer and direct debit...
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Sibos Amsterdam: "We are bullish on SEPA"
As part of its European expansion strategy, Bank of America Merrill Lynch is bullish on SEPA and is looking to roll out solutions that make...Read More >>
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Do You SEPA?
Italian payment processor, SIA-SSB's annual Do You SEPA? event in Milan yesterday concluded that not many do not SEPA and that there are...
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Only the impatient are pessismistic about SEPA
While one speaker at SIA-SSB's Do You SEPA? event in Milan jokingly suggested it may take 30 years to achieve full migration,...
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Podcast: A new form of collaboration in transaction banking
Financial-i's editor, Anita Hawser, talks to Dominic Broom, managing director & head, Market Development, EMEA, BNY Mellon Treasury...
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Managing the local needs of a global population
Guest blogger, Bernard Delahaye of ACI Worldwide, talks about the challenges ahead for banks as they grapple with the concept of payments...
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SEPA moves forward, but is it too late?
With the creation of a SEPA Council, Adrian Stafford-Jones, managing director of Albany Software, says SEPA may finally be moving forward...
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What banking arrangements best serve your international expansion plans?
Bob Lyddon, managing director of the IBOS Association, says regulation is threatening the overseas offices of international banks. He says...
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BNP Paribas unveils its "One Bank for Corporates in Europe"
Following its acquisition of Fortis Bank, BNP Paribas says its network in Europe is unrivalled and that it expects to win new business from...
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Chinese banks are winning more new corporate banking relationships
Western banks continue to dominate market share and quality among large Asian corporates, but Asian banks, particularly Chinese banks are...
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International payments - Cashing in on inefficiencies
Sending payments internationally should be easy but often companies find the process highly manual, inefficient and costly with little or...
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B2B payments: the poor cousin of retail payments?
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Guest blogger and payment industry veteran, John Chaplin, president of Ixaris, says innovation in the B2B payments space may not...
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Prepaid is coming
Kevin Harrington, managing director of the Global Prepaid Exchange, says prepaid is set to revolutionise business, particularly when...
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The future of finance is collaboration
As supply chains have become more global, companies need to manage a more complex web of relationships, and the best way of doing that,...
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Time to roll up the sleeves and support UK business
John Jenkins, UK CEO, GE Capital, says financers need to spend more time "under the bonnet" of SMEs' businesses to provide them with more...
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Faster Payments' Direct Corporate Access attracts growing client interest
Marcus Bateman, Barclays Corporate's Faster Payments product manager, says its Direct Corporate Access service offers corporates and banks...
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Think again, SEPA Direct Debits may be relevant to you
With the EC proposing the end of 2013 for full migration to SEPA Direct Debits, Garry Young of Logica, says corporates should not wait...
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Treasurers adopt a wait-and-see approach to RMB internationalisation
Despite increasing internationalisation of the renminbi and the development of offshore markets in Hong Kong and Singapore, treasurers...
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EuroFinance Miami: Dealing with the uncontrollables
A number of corporates are cash positive, but while investors may question this, preferring the cash to be paid out as dividends, some...Read More >>
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EuroFinance Miami: Enforcing global treasury practices
Energy giant, ConocoPhillips, shares its approach for instituting standardisation, control and best practices for bank account...Read More >>
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EuroFinance Miami: Breaking down local fiefdoms
With high growth markets becoming a more important part of the corporate balance sheet, treasurers are more focused than ever before on...Read More >>
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Taking back control of reconciliations
Reconciliations is no longer a back-office function, says Brad Foohey, senior product manager,
Risk & Compliance, Fiserv, as regulators...
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Rising inflation likely to impact company profits
A new study by the Hackett Group suggests that commodity and labour inflation could make a USD 150 million a year hit to companies' bottom...Read More >>
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Alternative forms of financing
With bank credit becoming increasingly unaffordable, more companies are turning to alternative forms of financing such as asset or project...
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Not all treasury management systems are created equal
Nav Batish, managing director at NAS Finance, says despite consolidation in the treasury management software space, there is still enough...
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Taking e-payments to the European level
John Broxis, director at EBA CLEARING, talks about the bank-owned infrastructure provider's new payment service, MyBank, which is based...
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The changing face of corporate - bank relationships
Alex Caviezel, J.P. Morgan Treasury Services EMEA regional executive, says sophisticated treasurers want to play a more collaborative role...
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Renminbi - a new market opportunity
The RMB as a major reserve currency may still be some years away, but it is increasingly making its presence felt in global trade and among...Read More >>
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Bank downgrades prompt treasurers to better understand their exposures
Counterparty risk becomes top concern for treasurers as ratings agencies continue to downgrade banks on both sides of the pond.Blog/News Archive
Treasurers are changing the way they work to achieve greater transparency
According to SunGard AvantGard, treasurers are finding new ways to harness technology and of working with banks and their trading partners...
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The renminbi - the new third man on the trading stage
Now is the time for businesses to push ahead with plans to be renminbi competent, says Mark Emmerson of HSBC. The currency may not yet be...
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SEPA: Banks' reactive approach is a dangerous strategy
Failing to adopt a strategy for SEPA migration risks losing market share for payments and cash management to new market entrants, says...
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Eurozone crisis and negative growth prospects in the West continue to provoke uncertainty among CFOs and treasurers
No credit crunch in Asia for companies, who predict that their revenues and borrowing will increase in 2012, however, they remain cautious...Read More >>
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Foreign exchange risk in a volatile market
Foreign exchange volatility can hugely impact a businesses' cash flow and profitability, says John Casey, HSBC's head of commercial...Read More >>