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		<title>CFOs, Treasurers to Discuss New Financial Environment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ira Apfel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate Finance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Treasury Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dub Newman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Container Terminals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Corporate Treasurers Forum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Kaitz]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.afponline.org/?p=1315</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chief financial officers and treasurers will convene in Washington in May to discuss how to operate in today&#8217;s financial environment.
The Association for Financial Professional&#8217;s Sixth Annual Global Corporate Treasurers Forum will take place at the Four Seasons Hotel, May 16-18, with Bank of America Merrill Lynch as the exclusive sponsor.
&#8220;AFP members have played a critical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FASB Clarifies When Embedded Credit Derivatives Qualify for Scope Exception</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/afponlineblogs/~3/nOlwlMyYl7w/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salome Tinker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Accounting & Financial Reporting]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.afponline.org/?p=1311</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The FASB clarified the type of embedded credit derivative that is exempt from embedded derivative bifurcation requirements with Accounting Standards Update 2010-11.　Only one form of embedded credit derivative qualifies for the exemption and that is one related only to the subordination of one financial instrument to another. As a result, entities that have contracts containing an embedded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Every Corporate Debt Manager Should Know</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/afponlineblogs/~3/QPPMTu8Gd7s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ira Apfel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Finance and Capital Structure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Risk Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Kalotay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt retirement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new issue structuring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swap]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debt markets are not complicated. In fact, one expert says they are getting simpler with time.
“If anything, the debt world has been really dumbed down over the last decade,” says Andrew Kalotay, PhD, an authority on institutional debt management and fixed-income valuation. “There used to be more types of bonds issued and much of them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week in Accounting – (1) FASB/IASB Holds Joint Meeting; (2) IRS/SEC Enters a MOU on Munciple Securities</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/afponlineblogs/~3/muTTQH20xvc/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.afponline.org/blog/2010/03/04/this-week-in-accounting-fasb-and-iasb-holds-joint-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salome Tinker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AFP General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accounting & Financial Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Accounting and Reporting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.afponline.org/?p=1298</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fair Value  &#8212; The two Boards are planning to create educational materials for measuring fair value of difficult-to-value assets and liabilities will be developed to address concerns raised by entities in emerging and transition economies about applying such principles in their jurisdictions. The material will include case studies and examples to help constituents not used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FASB Issues Remarks in Support of SECs Statement on Convergence</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/afponlineblogs/~3/PKzg-GsH4JA/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salome Tinker</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.afponline.org/?p=1290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) support the SEC’s view that a single set of high-quality globally accepted accounting standards will benefit U.S. investors.  The FAF and FASB support the SEC’s further consideration of the issues identified in the “work plan” in making its determination on whether and how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week in Corporate Finance</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/afponlineblogs/~3/5NVMm3cW7HE/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.afponline.org/blog/2010/03/01/this-week-in-corporate-finance-46/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Kalish</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.afponline.org/?p=1287</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This was another week where uncertainty was the name of the game.
We continued to receive unsettling news from the Aegean. The tug-of-war between Greece and the EC is ongoing. We learned that the credit rating agencies were considering further downgrades to Greece. Credit spreads widened and the CDS market continues to price in a higher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DOL Sets Civil Monetary Penalties for for Underfunded Multi-Employer Plan Violations</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/afponlineblogs/~3/jO-9KxbrkNk/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.afponline.org/blog/2010/02/26/dol-sets-civil-monetary-penalties-for-for-underfunded-multi-employer-plan-violations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salome Tinker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AFP General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pension and Benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pensions & Benefits]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.afponline.org/?p=1281</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On February 25th, the Department of Labor&#8217;s Employee Benefits Security Administration released a final rule establishing a civil penalty of up to $1,100 per day against multiemployer plans in endangered or critical funding status that fail to establish mandatory funding improvement and rehabilitation plans.
&#8220;The regulation makes clear that the $1,100/day penalty can be reduced or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Says Legislation Limiting Interchange Fees Unlikely in 2010</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/afponlineblogs/~3/_4bD0yp9RMo/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.afponline.org/blog/2010/02/25/frank-says-legislation-limiting-interchange-fees-unlikely-in-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salome Tinker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AFP General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Payment Systems]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.afponline.org/?p=1275</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the Credit Card National Association&#8217;s annual government affairs conference held this week, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) suggested that there it is unlikely that legislative action will be taken in 2010 that would limit interchange fees on credit cards and other payment cards.

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		<title>The IFRS Survey Says…</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/afponlineblogs/~3/9P2N-Dddvoc/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.afponline.org/blog/2010/02/25/the-ifrs-survey-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salome Tinker</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.afponline.org/?p=1267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent PwC IFRS survey, nearly 50% of US-based multinational companies are either currently using IFRS somewhere in the world, have completed an initial impact assessment, or are planning to do an assessment.
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		<title>No Interest Rate Changes Expected in Near Term</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/afponlineblogs/~3/5jKGhNNhgf0/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.afponline.org/blog/2010/02/25/no-interest-rate-changes-expected-in-near-term/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salome Tinker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AFP General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Finance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.afponline.org/?p=1262</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke signaled that the central bank would not change its key interest rate policy in the near term. Chairman Bernanke indicated that the current zero to 0.25 percent target range for the federal funds rate will remain in place for some time to come. He cited ongoing labor market problems and [...]]]></description>
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