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Transaction services 2015: Foreword

As transaction banking evolves, it faces both challenges and opportunities.

June 17, 2015

Egypt 2015: Back in business

Egypt’s capital markets are firmly back on the radar of international investors, thanks to a pair of high-profile IPOs and the promise of the first sovereign bond for more than five years.

June 17, 2015

Egypt 2015: Onward and upward

After nearly four years of stagnation, Egypt’s economy is back on track and attracting increasing interest from regional and international investors.

June 16, 2015

Egypt 2015: On the rebound

Egypt remains a high-risk portfolio option. However the partial, and yet sustained, rebound in its total risk score since September 2014 is a clear sign of investor confidence slowly returning now that the aftershocks of the Arab Spring are finally abating.

June 16, 2015

Sub-Saharan Africa 2015: Compelling investment

Africa’s rich resources, natural and human, are luring capital, but investors will need to move fast.

Elliot Wilson, June 16, 2015

Sponsored by Nordea

The treasury: from back-office to strategic lead

The treasury can expect a bright future at the top table – so says research conducted by Nordea. We surveyed 82 large corporate treasuries and interviewed more than 60 CFOs and treasurers to find out how the treasury function has changed and what it will look like by 2017.

June 16, 2015

Euromoney Country Risk

Country risk expert insight – Q1 results: Mexico

The results of the latest Euromoney Country Risk quarterly survey saw Mexico’s risk score fall 1.49 points. With a score of 60.82, the country now sits at 37th in the global ECR rankings. ECR asked two experts for their opinions on the reasons behind the decline.

Catherine Snowdon, June 16, 2015

Transaction services 2015: The technology dilemma

The dilemma has never been more vexing. Banks and corporates are under ever more pressure to cut costs and streamline their operations, making it increasingly difficult to justify extravagant technology investment. Yet the risk of getting left behind has never been greater.

Solomon Teague, June 11, 2015

Foreign Exchange

Corporates continue to shun FX algo trading

While hedge funds increase their use of algorithms, corporates continue to execute only modest volumes.

Paul Golden, June 10, 2015

Foreign Exchange

European regulators battle with derivatives reporting

A review of EMIR reporting is under way as the industry lobbies regulators to move to single-sided reporting for OTC derivatives and remove the reporting requirement for exchange-traded derivatives. What’s more, cross-border harmonization of derivatives regulation is way off.

Joel Clark, June 10, 2015

Foreign Exchange

Swiss peg debacle leads to cull in FX prime brokerage

A series of market disasters in recent years, culminating in the SNB’s decision to abandon its peg to the euro, have forced banks to reconsider their commitment to the prime brokerage (PB) business, leaving many smaller hedge funds and other clients in the cold – but a new generation of providers is taking their place, promising to revolutionize the business.

Solomon Teague, June 10, 2015

Euromoney Country Risk

Tunisia’s credit-rating actions seem unconvincing

Fitch and Moody’s altered the outlooks on their BB-/Ba3 ratings from negative to stable in recent months, but experts taking part in Euromoney’s country risk survey are still to be persuaded.

Jeremy Weltman, June 10, 2015

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