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BANKING

True integration for companies: what does it really mean?

Every corporate treasurer faces challenges in improving their business processes. For many years, straight through processing (STP) has been held up as the solution to these challenges. It has been shown to increase efficiency, raise productivity, lower the cost of doing business and consequently enhance profitability. Unsurprisingly, STP has long been the stated goal of leading corporates.

March 01, 2006

Opinion

A big buzz in Manila

Jollibee Bee, mascot, all dressed up to collect company's award for Best-managed consumer goods company in Asia.

Chris Leahy, March 01, 2006

BANKING

Malaysian M&A is anything but easy

A hostile bid in the Malaysian banking market is almost unheard of. But CIMB's pursuit of Southern Bank has provoked more than just headlines, and now almost every major banking group in the country is in play.

Peter Koh, March 01, 2006

Opinion

Lessons learnt from Argentina’s financial crisis

Argentina’s debt default, devaluation and subsequent recovery is, along with Enron’s fall from grace, the biggest financial story of the decade.

Clive Horwood, March 01, 2006

CAPITAL MARKETS

Credit derivatives: Go easy on the curves

LBOs and technicals have boosted betting on the continuing steepness of the European credit curve. But nothing good lasts for ever and several things could upset the apple cart.

Simon Boughey, March 01, 2006

FEG: Investors Fixated On Short-Term Performance

This article appears courtesy of Institutional Investor

February 27, 2006

Foreign Exchange

Bond Outlook February 22nd

Investors’ conclusions from flattening/inverting yield curves will differ for private, institutional and government buyers, and for issuers. Private investors have no reason to go long, but the others…

February 22, 2006

Foreign Exchange

Bond Outlook February 15th

Continuing economic rebalancing has allowed many emerging and transition economies issue bonds in local currencies for international settlement. See our list for possible diversification.

February 15, 2006

Foreign Exchange

FXall set for partial sale to private equity buyer

The sale of Hotspot has prompted a torrent of speculation about the future of other ECNs. But it seems the rumours about a sale of FXall are true.

FXall, the leading electronic platform in the foreign exchange market, is set for a new ownership structure. Euromoney has learnt that the ECN’s owners, a consortium of leading foreign exchange banks, are locked in discussions about a potential sale of up to 30% of the company to a private equity buyer.

February 13, 2006

BANKING

Bond Outlook February 8th

The long T-Bond reappears just as the yield curve looks like inverting, and probably helping that effect. Inversion is probably a sign (but not the cause) of the coming slowdown.

February 08, 2006

The rise of private defined contribution

If Japan’s pension reforms ever get under way in earnest, there could be substantial growth of private defined contribution plans, known as 401(k) after the US system. Japan’s pensions market is already very large. “The total size of the market is a little less than $3 trillion, as at March 2005,” says Shuichi Komori, president and CEO of Daiwa SB Investments Ltd. “Around 70% of our assets under discretionary management come from the pension fund industry, mostly in Japan.”

Chris Leahy, February 01, 2006

BANKING

Bond Outlook February 1st

Research from the Levy Institute spells out why the housing bubble must deflate and looks at the likely consequences. Only a repeat of an old warning, but worth taking seriously!

February 01, 2006

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