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Fintech

Turkey debate: Digital revolution opens new horizons for Turkish financial innovators

Turkey’s economy has been slow to go digital but increasing smartphone penetration is offering unparalleled growth opportunities for banks, mobile operators, e-commerce platforms and a host of new generation players. Striking a balance between competition and collaboration will be key as aspiring innovators face up to the challenges posed by big data, regulation and security.

October 30, 2015

Foreign Exchange

China's balancing act on exchange rate

China's quarter-point rate cut last Friday is the latest attempt to revive a flagging economy. But although currency liberalization is on the agenda in the longer term, the People's Bank of China is unlikely to be ready to cede control of the renminbi’s de facto dollar peg just yet as depreciation pressures grow.

Solomon Teague, October 29, 2015

CAPITAL MARKETS

Trans-Pacific Partnership to the rescue

Latin America’s economies are suffering a rapid and severe shift in their terms of trade. The development of free trade areas may provide a way forward and global initiatives, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, could transform the region’s future.

Rob Dwyer, October 29, 2015

BANKING

Ecobank: Ayeyemi's friendly takeover

Still scarred by a leadership crisis in 2014, Ecobank surprised many by looking outside the bank for a new CEO. Ade Ayeyemi already sees himself as an insider just a few weeks into the job – but can he live up to expectations of this ambitious pan-African bank?

Kanika Saigal, October 29, 2015

Sabadell CEO Jaime Guardiola and CFO Tomas Varela have transformed the Catalan bank

BANKING

Sabadell tries out a new look

Since the financial crisis the bank has been transformed from a Catalan regional to the fifth largest bank in Spain. It now has ambitions in Europe and the Americas.

Eric Ellis, October 29, 2015

BANKING

Inside the race for Italy's NPLs

International investors are scrambling to establish themselves as the country’s huge NPL market finally starts to creak open. But this is not a market for the faint-hearted, and achieving those double-digit rates of return will require skill and unrivalled local knowledge.

Louise Bowman, October 29, 2015

Fintech

Third-party digital payment providers enter corporate space

Payment applications developed by companies outside the traditional banking system account for a growing share of financial transactions, with the plethora of new players raising questions on processing costs, technical standards and demand in the burgeoning corporate payment market.

Paul Golden, October 29, 2015

first successful compression cycle for FX forwards and swaps transactions

Fintech

CLS and TriOptima unveil portfolio compression service for FX swaps and forwards

Regulators have cited portfolio compression as one way market participants can reduce risk in their trading. TriOptima has long provided the service for other asset classes, but until now it has not been available for FX swaps and futures.

Solomon Teague, October 29, 2015

BANKING

Bitcoin: Jury is still out on derivatives

Bitcoin is riding high after a recent European Court of Justice ruling that users in Europe are not liable to pay value-added tax when trading the cryptocurrency. But regulators worldwide are divided on whether it is a commodity or a currency and are still probing the advent of bitcoin derivatives as exchanges flourish to satisfy traders' demand for a wider range of products.

Farah Khalique, October 29, 2015

Treasury

Corporates gear up for BEPS reporting demands

Opinion is divided on the extent to which corporates are ready for the country-by-country reporting requirements of the OECD’s base erosion and profit shifting project, as well as the work required to ensure compliance.

Paul Golden, October 29, 2015

Fintech

Wealth management: big data, better relationships

Technology has given wealth managers the ability to collect more data than ever before. How they use that information is now critical to their future success. So why aren’t more private banks embracing the opportunity?

Helen Avery, October 28, 2015

Opinion

Inside investment: Commodities – filtering signal from noise

The prospects for industrial metals is a weighty subject. Investors that blithely believe price corrections revert to mean may be looking at a false dawn.

Lincoln Rathnam, October 28, 2015

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