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       Posted on May 7th, 2012

Money Market Fund Regulations: The Voice of the Treasurer

U.S. treasurers report that they will sharply reduce their use of money market funds if the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopts any of the three concepts it is considering to reform money market funds. The SEC has said it is pursuing these changes to change the structure of money market funds. Treasury [...]


       Posted on April 29th, 2012

Working Capital Management

In November 2011, RBS and Greenwich Associates launched a new study on working capital management among large companies around the world. In conducting the research, the firms interviewed 50 companies in Asia (excluding Japan), Europe and North America.

The results of this research reveal that past efforts to build efficiencies in working [...]


       Posted on April 23rd, 2012

Navigating risk & regulation in support of the real economy

In this speech, Douglas Flint, Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc, covers three themes:

The shape of regulatory debate in the financial sector
How these reforms impact on the real economy
How we can best avoid unintended consequences for the corporate sector.

Source: HSBC


       Posted on March 28th, 2012

Can a Corporate Bond Market solve the Super Equity Bias?

The stars appear to be in alignment for a beneficial structural reform of the Australian financial system to kill two birds with one stone. On the one hand, almost everyone seems to support initiatives to develop a local corporate bond market to broaden corporate funding sources. On the other, almost everyone believes that [...]


       Posted on March 14th, 2012

Foreign IPO capital market choice: Understanding the institutional fit of corporate governance

Historically, firms opting to ‘go public’ were mostly confined by legal reasons to offer their shares only on the exchanges in their country of origin. However, globalisation and integration of international capital markets have greatly expanded the choices available to firms seeking equity capital.

Strategic decisions essentially relate to issues of domain [...]


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