Technology

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 ...

MILESTONES: US/GERMANY   By Gordon Platt   Facing a $4 billion breakup fee, AT&T is working hard to make its proposed merger with T-Mobile a reality, despite regulatory stumbling blocks.   Deal to create the largest US wireless carrier is in ...

By Gordon Platt BEST FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROVIDERS: GLOBAL WINNER Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank has managed to stay on top of the FX world year after year. It has the biggest, most diversified and most profitable foreign exchange operation of any ...

SPONSORED ROUNDTABLE: TECHNOLOGY GAME CHANGERS   Moderated by Denise Bedell   Liquidity and risk management, treasury efficiency, eBAM, SWIFT for corporates, and mobile treasury apps were center stage during Global Finance ’s TCM roundtable in New York in November.   From ...

By Gordon Platt BEST FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROVIDERS: REGIONAL WINNERS NORTH AMERICA Citi Feig, Citi: We have invested in people and technology and are seeing our market share rise as a result As Citi prepares to celebrate its 200th anniversary in ...

By Gordon Platt BEST FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESEARCH & ANALYSIS RESEARCH BNY Mellon BNY Mellon, one of the largest foreign exchange dealers in the United States, offers support in virtually all currencies, with particular expertise in emerging markets.   Derrick, BNY Mellon ...

By Gordon Platt BEST ONLINE FOREIGN EXCHANGE TRADING SYSTEMS BANK SYSTEM State Street’s Currenex The Currenex foreign exchange trading platform uses patented technology to match orders and aggregate liquidity. Its high-speed, low-latency API (application programming interface) provides access to live, ...

ANNUAL SURVEY & AWARDS: FX PROVIDERS BET BIG ON TECHNOLOGY   By Gordon Platt   The most successful FX banks are boosting their IT spending and competing on price and service in an effort to maintain market share.   As the ...

AUTOMATION, TAXATION AND RISK REDUCTION BY Denise Bedell Risk management and technology were key themes of the annual AFP conference in Boston in November.   Jegher, Celent: Only a fraction of banks now offer corporate mobile banking solutions The annual ...

AWARDS CEREMONY: LOCATION NEW YORK CITY   Representatives of most of the first-round winners of The World’s Best Internet Banks awards joined Global Finance on November 3 at the Harvard Club in New York City for the ninth annual Best ...

EVOLUTION AND INNOVATION By Adam Rombel The awards go to both large international and local banks—showing that technology creates new opportunities and a global playing field.   In this, the second of a two-part series, Global Finance recognizes the best ...

ANNUAL SURVEY: GOING MAINSTREAM   By Adam Rombel   In the first of a two-part series, Global Finance identifies the best online corporate and consumer banks.   Internet banking is no longer just an alternative channel. In the first of ...

TECHNOLOGY— SIBOS 2011   By Anita Hawser   Banks are facing growing competition from technologically advanced nonbanks as customers seek more convenience and higher service levels.   Imagine a world where money is no longer thought of as something physical ...

THE NEXT FRONTIER   By Anita Hawser   Take-up of mobile banking services is accelerating as services—and the devices they run on—become ever more sophisticated.   At an annual gathering of the world’s largest corporate and investment banks held in ...

THE WORKING CAPITAL TRANSFORMATION   By Denise Bedell   Companies are looking to technology to help them delve deeper into their working capital processes.   The debate that has long raged over whether enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can compare ...

EXPOSING FOREIGN EXCHANGE RISK   By Denise Bedell   Companies with international operations are looking beyond spreadsheets to get a timelier view of their global FX exposures.   Within a few hours of Osama bin Laden’s being killed, global markets ...

A TREASURER’S BEST FRIEND   With cash visibility and control more important than ever, and with risk management becoming an increasing part of the corporate treasurer’s job, technology is playing an ever more pivotal role. As its sophistication grows, treasury ...

Best Legal Advisers Global Skadden Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, which operates under the brand name Skadden, was the number-one legal adviser on global mergers and acquisitions announced in 2010, according to Thomson Reuters. Skadden advised on 227 deals ...