Markets continue to creep higher although they are giving up a little in early action this morning with the FTSE quoted at 5325 having hit 5365 late in the US session.

The FTSE continues to outperform other markets with mining, banking and oil holding steady shrugging off any fears of a slow down and markets in general . . .

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Liquidity Risk Management Sails to the Top of the Banking Agenda

With the introduction of tighter regulation, along with closer scrutiny from shareholders and investors, liquidity risk is one of the most pressing business concerns facing organisations today. As the upheaval in the financial landscape prompts a grassroots reassessment of liquidity risk within large institutions, Anya Davis of Baringa Partners and James Nicholls of Cornhill explores how banks should manage liquidity risk.

INTERBANK FX: Founded by Traders, for Traders

In an era when the spotlight has been brought to bare like never before on the integrity of the financial world, Drew Hillier speaks to Todd Crosland, one of our industry’s preeminent figures in the drive for increased transparency, accountability and excellence. Todd, the founder of Interbank FX - a global leader in online off-exchange retail trading services which he continues to oversee - prioritises his guiding focus on a degree of customer care that sets it apart from many of it competitors, which remains as keen today as it did when he started the company a decade ago. 

Swift for corporates

Companies now have a viable solution to the problems presented by the internationalisation of their businesses and the resultant multiple bank connectivity requirements, that gives them a genuine opportunity to leverage the same solution that banks have been using for years and realise comparable benefits across their multiple banking relationships.

Acropolis Now...

"Saigon... s**t! I'm still only in Saigon... Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle." These are the now infamous first lines uttered by Captain Benjamin L. Willard - the main character played by Martin Sheen in the seminal Vietnam War movie, Apocalypse Now. With the markets currently bunkered down against the distinct whiff of contagion spreading across the EU battlefield and beyond, there will doubtless be many traders heading for their holidays paraphrasing those apocalyptic words!

Small business banking: managing risk while accelerating growth

The small business market is becoming an increasingly attractive and strategic market for retail banks. It is a high growth market that not only offers development potential, but is also an important contributor to helping support the world economy, in which small business plays a major role...

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Banknote printer boss quits over production glitches

James Hussey, the chief executive of De La Rue, the world's biggest producer of bank notes, has resigned with immediate effect following the discovery of serious problems with its printing operations, sending its shares down 13%...

UK Bank chiefs get to grips with lending

A taskforce designed tohelp get lending to British businesses back on track is to be formed by the heads of six UK banks...

RBS half-year profits leap

Royal Bank of Scotland has seen its pre-tax profit hit £1.14bn in the first half of the year from £15m a year earlier...

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