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Laurence Neville


Recent stories by Laurence Neville

  • Cash management: How to make the most of a merger - Brian Stevenson, RBS

    Brian Stevenson is the head of the new global transaction services division at RBS, following its acquisition of ABN Amro’s business. In his first interview since he took the job, he talks to Laurence Neville about separation, integration and what the future holds.

    Euromoney April 2008

  • Supply chain management: Towards fewer, stronger chains?

    The credit crunch is inevitably limiting banks’ ability to offer supply chain finance services. But demand for these is set to keep growing, so the broader effect might be consolidation of the business into the hands of a few truly global banks. Laurence Neville reports.

    Euromoney April 2008

  • Letters of credit: Retreat from open account?

    One area of increased interest in the wake of the credit crunch is traditional trade financing products such as letters of credit (LC). In recent years, trading has increasingly moved to open account rather than LC in a bid to lower costs. But Tan Kah Chye, global head of trade finance at Standard Chartered in Singapore, says that as supply chain participants have become cautious about the financial stability of their trading partners they have once again begun to consider LC.

    Euromoney April 2008

  • European CMBS forced to the brink

    For those dependent on the European commercial mortgage-backed securities market for funding, the credit crunch has prompted a round of soul-searching. The market may be closed for the next six months, forcing some to look elsewhere. What will it take to prompt a revival? Laurence Neville reports.

    Published March 2008 Liquid real estate Issue 05

  • Relationships count for investors

    Published March 2008 Liquid real estate Issue 05

  • The Sepa revolution quietly creeps in

    Unprecedented co-operation between European banks has, at last, created a single euro payments area. It will transform the cash management business and possibly the whole banking industry. Laurence Neville reports.

    Euromoney February 2008

  • Sepa and the PSD: a brief history

    Euromoney February 2008

  • What corporates must do

    Euromoney February 2008

  • G-Reit market set for glacial progress

    The conversion of Hamburg-based real estate company alstria into a Reit at the beginning of October and its inclusion in a new Deutsche Börse German Reit segment in November heralded a new dawn for the German property market. But despite the big long-term potential of Germany’s position as Europe’s largest property market, observers aren’t expecting a substantial increase in the near future in the number of German Reits – known as G-Reits.

    Published December 2007 Liquid real estate Issue 04

  • J Sainsbury and Land Securities enter innovative joint venture

    Europe’s retailers are between a rock and a hard place. Activist investors are pushing them to separate their vast property assets and realize value in the short term when the evidence suggests companies that continue to hold the freehold to their properties get higher returns in the long term. But UK supermarket group J Sainsbury could have found a solution for retailers in a joint venture with UK real estate company Land Securities – Harvest Partnership – announced in November.

    Published December 2007 Liquid real estate Issue 04



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