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Eastern promise
From Markets / Commodities & Energy

As commodities demand moves to Asia, will banks follow?

The statistics are clear: commodity demand is moving east, and fast. For the moment, the bulk of trading and price-setting is done out of New York and London, but will banks, exchanges and physical trading houses move east as well? Joanne Hart reports

Harris Irfan, head of Islamic products at Barclays Capital
From Markets / Islamic Finance

Islamic finance finds liquidity management solutions

The launch of an International Islamic Liquidity Management Corporation is a step to resolving a long-standing weakness of Islamic finance, but there is still much work to be done. Writer Philip Alexander

Awards
From Awards / The Banker Awards

Bank of the Year Awards - 2010

If last year's awards were about how well banks kept a firm course in stormy times, The Banker's 11th Bank of the Year Awards - in association with Western Gulf Advisory - revealed quality as never seen before by the judges.

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Consumer technology in the financial world
Cash management: the new age
FX in flux

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Marco Mazzucchelli, deputy CEO of GBM and EMEA head of RBS
From Profiles / People / Agenda

Marco Mazzucchelli on RBS's slow return to health

A poor showing in banking league tables, a third-quarter pre-tax loss of £1.4bn, the hangover of ABN Amro... To the uninitiated, it would seem that RBS is still in turmoil. However, as its global head of banking, deputy CEO of GBM and head of EMEA explains, a deeper analysis shows signs of recovery. Writer Geraldine Lambe

Back on the crane gang: Singapore posted a 39% quarter-on-quarter growth in GDP in Q1 of this year
From World / Asia-Pacific / Singapore

Singapore's banks are being forced to go overseas

Singapore's banks have reported stable but modest profits in recent years, but this is coming under threat from low interest rates and a lack of opportunity in an overcrowded market, leading many to consider international expansion. Writer Michelle Price

From Comment / Leaders

Eurozone debt keeps on dancing

"As long as the music is playing, you've got to get up and dance. We're still dancing," former Citi chief executive Chuck Prince notoriously told the Financial Times as the global financial crisis began to unfold in July 2007.

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Good idea, bad timing

Fears mount over a proposal to force investors to share the burden of a future financial crisis.

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