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Over the last few years, treasurers’ roles have become even more complex and challenging as they try to source and secure funds for their organisations in a volatile economic climate. “20 issues on the increasing significance of corporate treasury” is designed to shed some light on how the treasury function operates and what to consider when performing it.

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Today's trading commentaries

New coalition for Greece
Yesterday's story that Germany's Chancellor Merkel would support a €600bn fund to support the price of Spanish and Italian bonds has already been bubbled.

Fed extends ‘twist’ but hold fire on quantative easing
The US economy has prompted the Fed to continue its ‘operation twist’, their stimulus programme of buying longer term bonds and replacing the short term purchases until the end of the year.

UK retail sales number to provide sterling with direction
From the eurozone, we saw some relief that Greece managed to form a coalition government, eyes now turn to attempts to renegotiate the terms of its bailout.

Fed’s twist disappoints as markets dip
So we got some more twisting from the Fed last night but investors were a little disappointed in the lack of any other big bazookas such as the introduction of QE3.

Disappointment following Bernanke’s announcement
In the end, some were disappointed that the Fed did not do more than merely extend Operation Twist by USD 267bln up until year-end.

No third wave of QE, announces Bernanke
Hopes of the US Federal Reserve releasing a third wave of quantitative easing on financial markets were dashed last night after Chairman Ben Bernanke announced a less impressive form of monetary support.

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Ten “big data” trends transforming financial services

‘Big data’ solutions that support evolving business and regulatory requirements by maintaining an ecosystem of large data sets will become invaluable in their ability to be used for multiple purposes and to answer any question months or years from now. SunGard has identified ten trends shaping “big data” initiatives across all segments of the financial services industry in 2012...

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Latest FX-MM news, stories & comment

		HKMA, Euroclear Bank and J.P. Morgan open cross-border liquidity and secured lending channels in Hong Kong HKMA has signed bilateral agreements with Euroclear Bank and J.P.Morgan...

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		SmartStream Technologies and Empaxis partner to provide service-based trade reconciliation platform for the buy-side Provides hedge funds & asset managers with service based trade reconciliation platform...

		Successful implementation of Swissrisk’s FinTRACE at WGZ BANK System used to manage enquiries from over 200 connected correspondents of “Volks-und Raiffeisenbanks” and WGZ BANK...

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		Deutsche Bank China completes first cross-border RMB payment under PBOC’s simplified payment pilot scheme Offshore RMB also added to Deutsche Bank’s electronic cross-currency payment system...

		Bank of America Merrill Lynch Introduces iPad app for Paymode-X® Using Paymode-X for iPad, executives now have real-time access to critical corporate payments information.

Conferences, events & exhibitions

International SAP Conference for Treasury Management 2012
27 - 29 June 2012, Potsdam-Berlin, Germany

9th AFE Conference 2012
28 - 30 June 2012, Samos Island, Greece

World Finance Conference
2 - 4 July 2012, Ipanema, Portugal

Liquidity Risk Forum
17 - 18 July 2012, London, UK

2012 Annual Conference on Global Economics, Business and Finance (GEBF 2012)
27 - 30 July 2012, Beijing, China

TradeTech Post Trade
11 - 13 September 2012 London, UK

China Commodities Trade & Investment Summit 2012
13 - 14 September 2012 Shanghai, China

TradeTech FX
25 - 27 September 2012 London, UK

International Cash and Treasury Management 2012
26 - 28 September 2012, Monaco

Sibos 2012
29 October - 1 November 2012 Osaka, Japan

MENA 10th Forex Managed Funds & Investment Summit
15 - 16 November 2012 Dubai, UAE


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