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Negotiating the Debt Refinancing Wall Philip Davidson, KPMG - 26 Jan 2012 At a time when the global economy is struggling to maintain momentum, businesses and financial institutions are looking ahead to a challenging wall of refinancing. |
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Corporate Financing: Safety First Rolf Michon, Orchard Finance Consultants - Richinel van Aanholt, Orchard Finance Consultants - 26 Jan 2012 Since 2009, ensuring the availability of financing has increasingly become a top priority of companies' boards. This article summarises the measures a company can take to increase the availability and continuity of financing. The data of large Dutch firms shows that most companies have taken these measures since 2009. The data also shows that most companies have used the liquidity in the bank debt market in the first half of 2011 to further secure availability of financing. |
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BPO and ISO 20022: A Technology Perspective Olivier Berthier, Misys - 25 Jan 2012 Despite industry inertia to change, bank payment obligation (BPO) is an opportunity for a positive evolution in the face of an increasingly online industry. |
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Vox Pop: Reactions to S&P's Downgrading of France's AAA Rating Neil Ainger, gtnews - 24 Jan 2012 gtnews decided to canvass the opinons of industry commentators to find out what the prevailing view is of the recent downgrading of France's AAA rating and of eight other eurozone countries by Standard and Poor's (S&P). |
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