Technology

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 ...

Global Winners Best Investment Bank Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley’s broad-based strength in equity underwriting and financial advisory work on mergers and acquisitions worldwide is unparalleled. The investment bank’s only relative weakness is in the fixed-income area, which it is working ...

Deals of the Year Best Equity Deal: Petrobras $70 Billion Stock Sale Lead manager: Banco Bradesco BBI Global bookrunners: Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citi, Santander, Morgan Stanley and Itaú BBA.   The $70 billion add-on equity offering on September ...

Regional Winners North America Best Investment Bank Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley’s strengths in the equity and M&A; advisory businesses make it the clear leader in North American investment banking. Not only did it lead General Motors’ $18.1 billion initial public ...

ANNUAL SURVEY : BEST INVESTMENT BANKS   By Gordon Platt   Constant innovation and unwavering commitment to the business have helped the world’s leading investment banks better serve their clients and build their market share.   The investment banking industry ...

Country Winners North America Canada Scotia Capital Scotia Capital is the global corporate and investment banking and capital markets arm of Scotiabank, the most international bank in Canada. Scotia Capital handled the three largest debt financings in Canada in 2010, ...

Sector Winners Consumer Credit Suisse Credit Suisse advised on Coca-Cola’s $12.3 billion purchase of the North American operations of bottler Coca-Cola Enterprises. Credit Suisse also managed the $700 million initial public offering of Indfood CBP. Financial Institutions Bank of America ...

TECHNOLOGY: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE   By Denise Bedell   Mobile and social networking technologies are helping bring heavy-duty analytical capabilities to every level of a business.   Anyone who thought social networking was useful only for catching up with old school ...

  CYBERSECURITY: HIDDEN THREAT   By Anita Hawser   Recent increases in cyberattacks have raised alarming questions over corporate network security.   In February 2010 the Kneber botnet virus infected more than 70,000 computers globally, including some at US government ...

ANNUAL SURVEY: GOING MOBILE   By Adam Rombel   In the second of a two-part series, Global Finance identifies the best corporate/institutional and consumer Internet banks globally and in six regions, plus an overall winner. We also name global winners ...