Technology

HIGH TECH MEETS THE LAW OF INERTIA   By Paula Green   Treasurers wanting to move to high-end forecasting solutions still face an uphill challenge.   Even when a treasurer wants to move to a high-end system for forecasting cash, ...

BEYOND CONNECTIVITY   By Rebecca Brace   SWIFT continues to roll out new company-focused initiatives as its corporate user-base grows.   As SWIFT’s corporate membership figures rise—the number currently stands at around 970–the bank-owned cooperative is working on a number ...

ELEGANT, YET SIMPLE   By Paula Green   Corporates are beginning to use mobile finance solutions not only for payments but also to monitor risk and plan for contingencies.   Mobile mania is just beginning to make its way into ...

SHARING THE BURDEN   By Karen Kroll   New regulations and global uncertainty are reviving corporate focus on payment factories and in-house banks.   As companies look further outside their borders for new growth and increased regulation makes tracking cash ...

By Adam Rombel   Regional Subcategory Winners: Best Corporate/Institutional Internet Banks   Regional Subcategory Winners: Best Consumer Internet Banks   World's Best Internet Banks Back To Main Article Best Internet Banks: Country Winners

By Adam Rombel   Country Winners: Best Corporate/Institutional Internet Banks   Country Winners: Best Consumer Internet Banks   World's Best Internet Banks Back To Main Article Best Internet Banks: Regional Subcategory Winners

ANNUAL SURVEY: TRAILBLAZERS   By Adam Rombel   In the first of a two-part series, Global Finance identifies the top online corporate and consumer banks by country and regionally by product and service category.   As it has annually for ...

COVER UP   By Paula Green   Insuring against cyber risks is stoking the imaginations of insurance companies as the risks to multinationals expand. However, companies should check what policies cover them for.   Cyber risks are increasingly edging their ...

INNOVATION   By Laurence Neville   No list of influential figures of the past quarter-century would be complete without Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev, US president Ronald Reagan and British prime minister Margaret Thatcher—the three most important figures in ending the key ...

SUCCESSES   By Laurence Neville   A quick glance at the Fortune 500 for 1987 and 2012 reveals a number of similarities in the ranking of the largest companies in the US: ExxonMobil, GM, Ford, GE and AT&T all feature prominently ...

INNOVATION AND CONSUMERIZATION   By Andrea Fiano   Carlo Bozotti has been the president and CEO of STMicroelectronics since 2005. His company, like Global Finance, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. It is one of the world's leading electronics and ...

SUCCESSORS   By Justin Keay   Who would have predicted back in 1987 that Apple would today be one of the world's most dynamic and innovative companies? And Google, which emerged from nowhere back in 1998 but now dominates much more ...

NOVEL SOLUTIONS   By Paula L. Green   E-invoicing is taking a quantum leap forward. New solutions help companies tackle age-old issues, such as how to stay compliant in an ever more complex regulatory landscape.   Electronic invoices are helping ...

ENGINES OF GROWTH   The world of corporate treasury is changing. Increasing international growth among developing-markets companies is causing a revolution in how companies manage cash and liquidity—and thus how banks market their transaction products and services. While global banks continue ...

BANKING ON BPOS   By Paula L. Green   Bank Payment Obligations could change the way that companies manage their global supply chains, making it easier and safer to work with new suppliers in risky markets. But acceptance takes time. ...

MILESTONES: GLOBAL   By Valentina Pasquali   Our level of preparedness is not always up to par with the challenges we may be suddenly confronted with.   Still recovering from the Haiti earthquake Photo Credit : ARINDAMBANERJEE / Shutterstock.com This is a hard-learned ...

THE NEW ONE-STOP SHOP   By Rebecca Brace   Liquidity management is the latest corporate treasury process to get the one-stop-shop treatment by big banks and solution vendors.   A few years have passed since the financial crisis propelled liquidity ...

NEWSMAKERS: UNITED STATES   By Valentina Pasquali   When social-networking giant Facebook filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in February to raise $5 billion in one of the most anticipated initial public offerings of recent times, the talk ...