World Bank Group

The World Bank Treasury provides advisory services and training to official sector investment managers to help countries efficiently manage foreign currency reserves and other investment portfolios. The focus is on building a governance and risk management framework that balances return objectives with prudent risk management and controls. Engagements typically last three years and target broad institution-building of investment management operations. The World Bank Treasury has over 20 years experience in consulting and capacity building with official sector asset managers and manages approximately over $100 billion in assets for over 40 World Bank Group and other official sector institutions.

Organization

Five Agencies, One Group

The World Bank Group consists of five organizations:

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) lends to governments of middle-income and creditworthy low-income countries.

The International Development Association (IDA) provides interest-free loans—called credits— and grants to governments of the poorest countries.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) provides loans, equity and technical assistance to stimulate private sector investment in developing countries.

The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) provides guarantees against losses caused by non-commercial risks to investors in developing countries.

The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) provides international facilities for conciliation and arbitration of investment disputes.

Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena

Siena, Italy

Originally founded as The Monte di Pieta, or Monte Pio for issuing loans to the poor through charitable contributions, bank Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena is the oldest operating bank in the world with branches throughout Italy. Bank provided and continuously provides financial support to the city.

About the Group

An italian story since 1472

Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, founded in 1472 is considered to be the oldest bank in the world. Today’s parent company of Italy’s third largest banking group, the bank holds significant market shares in all areas of business.

The Montepaschi Group  is present all over Italy and in the major international financial centres, with operations ranging from traditional banking activities to Private Banking (mutual funds, wealth management, pension funds, and life insurance policies) and Corporate Banking (project finance, merchant banking, and financial advisory), with a special vocation for household accounts and small and medium enterprises. With some 33,000 employees and over 3,000 branches, the Montepaschi Group offers its services to more than six million customers.

The objective of the Group is the creation of value over time for all stakeholders, giving priority to customer satisfaction, personal professional development, shareholders’ interests, and the territory of reference. All this is pursued through an established, shared system of values based on:

• A responsibility ethic
• Orientation towards the customer
• Attention to change
• Entrepreneurship and productivity
• Professional competence
• Team spirit and cooperation 

A characteristic trait of the Gruppo Montepaschi is its union of the pursuit of its goals of growth and creation of value, proper to any market-oriented business, with the value system expressed by its base territory and communities, a consequence also of the deep roots put down in the community by the banks that are a part of it. In this sense, the Group promotes a strategy of innovation in support of development, characterized by a proactive role focused on the promotion and stimulation of new opportunities for its clientele and for the areas where it maintains a presence.

Information, skills and knowledge are placed at the disposition of individuals, businesses, trade associations, and local and national public agencies engaged in projects of aid and stimulus to business development, as well as in finance projects which form the basic conditions for growth.

Global Finance

CONNECTING WITH THE MOST IMPORTANT FINANCIAL PEOPLE

Since 1987 Global Finance magazine has been a reliable source of news and analysis for the most important financial people in the world. With a circulation of 50,000 and more than 180,000 readers in 163 countries, Global Finance provides a unique way to reach virtually all the chairmen, presidents, CEOs, CFOs, treasurers and other top financial officers at the world's largest companies and financial institutions.

Global Finance regularly selects the top performers among banks and other providers of financial services. These awards have become a trusted standard of excellence for the global financial community.

Independent research has constantly shown that Global Finance, when compared to all major business publications, is the most effective way to reach the people controlling the finances, strategies and major purchases of the world's most important companies.

Global Finance magazine offers marketers a range of tools to connect with top decision makers. These include display advertising, sponsored roundtables, sponsored statements, sponsored maps and award sponsorship.

The website gfmag.com, relaunched in 2009, targets an audience of top financial web-users that complements the reach of the magazine. Gfmag.com offers analysis, articles and awards that are the heritage of 22 years of experience in international finance and provides a valuable source of data on 192 countries.

The reliability of Global Finance in reaching the most important financial people in the world is confirmed by its continued use by marketers. In 2008 advertisers from more than 60 countries chose Global Financeas a marketing partner, and, in spite of the global recession, the magazine had a record advertising year.

Bank of New York Mellon

OUR LATEST THINKING

At BNY Mellon, our 225 years of experience in the financial marketplace has given us some unique insights. Explore our library of latest thinking below by identifying a particular business or by using the keyword search. You also can use the links to your right to access additional content and features.

Your business issues are our business issues. We collaborate with clients, industry and market specialists, and our own team of highly knowledgeable experts around the world to understand the meaning and nature of the evolving financial markets. We do this to help you prepare for the challenges and opportunities in today's global markets.

Alternative Investment Services

• Client Access

• Client access to investor and accounting information, reports and downloadable extract files of company and investor data.
  • Hedge Fund Clients
  • Fund of Hedge Fund Clients

• Investor Access

• Investor and interested party access current and historic information via our web-based dashboard, including statements, confirms, NAVs & returns, marketing materials, management letters, company profiles and support information.
  • Hedge Fund Investors
  • Fund of Hedge Fund Investors

Asset Servicing

• Workbench

• Workbench facilitates the investment life cycle from decision-making to execution, settlement and reporting. Workbench provides access to worldwide investment manager and custody-related information, enabling you to measure, monitor, and evaluate daily activity and results — all at the click of your mouse.

• INFORM

• INFORM provides information on custody, accounting, settlement and related activity.

Corporate Trust

• Document Custody

• Having access to data online, on demand, and knowing it is protected are key requirements in fast-paced and evolving markets. On our Document Custody system, you can access your detailed, imaged data and a range of relevant reports in real-time. All data is protected using state-of-the-art technology, and relevant information may be uploaded and downloaded. Access is secure and can be customized to meet your unique needs.

• Investor Reporting

• You can access detailed payment and collateral reporting data on our Investor Reporting site. A wealth of deal-specific investor-focused tools, to improve the way information is gathered, is available on the site. And, you can customize format and content so the reports meet your particular requirements.

• Bondholder Service Center

• You can access a range of services and perform a variety of actions through our Bondholder Service Center. Think of it as a central location where you can search for a bond issue and submit an inquiry, obtain transfer instructions, download tax forms, find answers to questions, even consult a glossary of terms.

• INFORM

• Accounting, cash management, online corporate actions: With INFORM, BNY Mellon's proprietary information delivery and transaction management system, you have access to online inquiry and reporting for all these functions. The result is the reporting you need and the ability to act on it.

• Money Market Manager

• Originate commercial paper issuance and medium-term note transactions, and generate the reports you need to manage these debt instruments on our Money Market Manager system. You can also customize reports and add filters and sorts to meet your specific requirements.

Depositary Receipts

• ADR INFORM

• As the world's leading depositary bank, BNY Mellon has long recognized the importance of developing and integrating innovative technology with the evolving Depositary Receipt business. ADR INFORM, our advanced Internet-based reporting platform, embodies this longstanding focus, and highlights our continued commitment to improving the value-added resources available to our Depositary Receipt issuer clients.

Environmental Innovation Solutions

• GEM Platform

• A universal platform for carbon credits that includes custody, escrow, settlement and clearing services.

Global Markets

• Global Markets

• Global Markets offers foreign exchange and interest rate, equity and currency derivatives execution.

• BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC

• Through BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC, we also offer trading in fixed income securities and equities.

• Foreign Exchange

• iFX Manager

• iFX Manager, BNY Mellon's proprietary electronic trading system, supports pre-trade order management, price discovery and execution services.

• iConfirm

• iConfirm offers post-trade confirmation, standing settlement instruction maintenance and mark-to-market reporting.

• iHedge

• iHedge is designed to help clients administer portfolio or shareclass hedging programs.

• iDeal Forex

• iDeal Forex is a platform for multicurrency payment initiation, FX trade execution and related reporting.

• iFlow

• iFlow measures cross-border portfolio flow and provides tools to measure capital flows against most major equity and fixed income indices.

Liquidity Services

• Liquidity DIRECT

• Liquidity DIRECT provides access to a wide range of money market funds, direct investment in individual money market securities, and the capabilities to safekeep margin balances all on a single, centralized investment platform.

Shareowner Services

On December 31, 2011, BNY Mellon's Shareowner Services business was acquired by Computershare. At this time, investors, employee stock plan participants and corporate clients can continue to manage their Shareowner Services accounts at the same websites and phone numbers that they have been using.

Shareowners

• Investor ServiceDirect

• Login or sign up to manage your consolidated portfolio, invest in a Direct Purchase Plan and access online account statements, tax forms and other important information.

Employee Stock Plan Participants

• EquityAccess

• Login to manage your consolidated stock options, restricted stock and employee stock purchase plan holdings.

• Employee ServiceDirect

• Login to manage your employee stock options, restricted stock and other equity awards.

Corporate Client Access

• ASAP

• Login to the Automated Stock Administrator's Portal to manage information, create reports and assist your plan participants.

• Client ServiceDirect

• Login to respond shareowner inquiries, monitor ownership levels, track proxy voting and access an a library of corporate and investor reporting.

Treasury Services

• TreasuryEdge

• Our simple but powerful electronic banking solution features easy set-up, automatic upgrades and intuitive navigation through a standard Internet browser interface, all designed to allow you to initiate a full range of transactions to manage available cash balances.