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Central Banker Report Cards 2024: Asia-Pacific

Global Finance

The political turmoil fuelled a spike in inflation, which hit 11.66% in July amid fast-dwindling foreign exchange reserves. Mansur announced plans to hike the benchmark rate by 50 basis points to 9%, and stated that rates would hit 10% within the coming months. Mansur to be central bank governor. per greenback.

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Multinational Corporates Face Rising FX Hedging Pressure

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s Conservative Party leadership contest is only the latest geopolitical event sparking concerns among analysts over foreign exchange (FX) markets — and corporates’ ability to react to those changes. More recently, a Bank of Jamaica survey revealed a constriction in local banks’ foreign exchange forwards or hedging contract agreements.

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World’s Best Sub-Custodian Banks 2024: Regional Winners

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Additionally, this suite of custody services is integrated with the bank’s transaction banking and foreign exchange offerings to ensure seamless management of custody-related transactions. The result is a highly responsive management team that serves unique customer requirements by developing innovative products.

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World’s Best Sub-Custodian Banks 2024: Regional Winners

Global Finance

Additionally, this suite of custody services is integrated with the bank’s transaction banking and foreign exchange offerings to ensure seamless management of custody-related transactions. The result is a highly responsive management team that serves unique customer requirements by developing innovative products.

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World’s Best Banks 2024—Asia-Pacific

Global Finance

Rising external interest rates, a weak economic recovery and risk management challenges put neighboring Macau’s banking environment under pressure. Assets and deposits both hit record growth—each up by 19%—and all of the bank’s product offerings, including consumer loans, agriculture lending and microfinance, hit new benchmark highs.

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

Barry Ritholtz

If you’re all interested in macro investing, trend following, commodities, currencies, fixed income, various types of quantitative strategies, and most important of all, risk management, you’re going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. With no further ado, my interview of GCM’s Ken Tropin.

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Economic Stability For Payments and Commerce: An Old-Fashioned Idea

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The country’s central bank has raised its benchmark lending rate to 24 percent from 17.75 We’ve got some adjustments to make because of foreign exchange rates, and we know we’ll make those adjustments and we’ll grow into that,” said Netflix’s Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos during the company’s post-earnings conference call.