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The fifth annual FIX Protocol Ltd (FPL) trading conference for financial market participants in Europe, Middle-East and Asia (EMEA) was held last week in the City of London at the Old Billingsgate market. Opening speaker, Andrew Neil, ex-editor of ‘The Sunday Times’ and a renowned journalist and broadcaster with the BBC - not to mention a trained economist - warned that it could be ‘dangerous’ to loosen UK inflation targets still further or allow negative interest rates to become entrenched, in a grim political and economic overview of the UK and European economy.
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Michael Connolly, vice president and treasurer at Tiffany & Co, explains why the session on private placement is the place to be at the upcoming Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) Annual Conference in Miami from 14-17 October.
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Séverine Le Blévennec, director treasury EMEA, Honeywell, outlines the tools/technology she uses to to manage Honeywell's short-term investment strategy.
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David Aldred, EMEA energy, power, chemicals and industrials sector head, Citi Transaction Services, describes treasury activities in these diverse sectors, explaining the need for a back-to-basics approach and examining industry requirements for capex.
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The final day of the Association of Corporate Treasurer's (ACT) 2012 conference, which attracted more than 700 participants, ended with hard-nosed newsman Jeremy Paxman hosting a session of 'Question Time'. The panel of industry experts received a grilling, as questions flooded in from the audience. Earlier in the day, Paul Tucker, deputy governor, financial stability, Bank of England (BoE), addressed some concerns regarding the UK credit market.
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The second day of the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) Annual Conference in Liverpool took a long, hard look at risk. First up was a plenary on whether 2012 was a make or break year for the UK economy, whereas two session tracks looked at how corporates can manage liquidity and counterparty risk in uncertain times.
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The ACT Annual Conference 2012 opened with a plenary discussion entitled 'Smart Globalisation in the Age of China and India'. It asked a question that many corporates in Europe and the UK have been grappling with: how is the West going to stay competitive in a fast-changing world?
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In yet another step forward towards internationalisation of the renminbi (RMB), the People's Bank of China (PBOC) announced earlier this month that the RMB cross-border trade settlement scheme, launched as a pilot in 2009, has been expanded to all Chinese mainland exporters.
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Last week saw a breach of the trend line with regards to the eurodollar - is this significant?
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In terms of market developments, what would have caused a violent reaction last year has hardly created a whimper today. But there is a reason to be optimistic.
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As the European financial crisis continues to rumble on, this blog looks at the latest developments and what this means for the markets.
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The possibility of a break-up of the euro would actually mean the removal of periphery economies, which in turn would mean a stronger euro.
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As the European sovereign debt crisis worsens and Belgium, France and Luxembourg step in to bail out Dexia, what effect will this have on the euro?