About Cadence Bank Foreign Exchange: The Foreign Exchange Trading Desk helps clients improve their competitiveness in global markets through the use of customized currency risk management strategies, in-depth analysis, and sound advice. With products ranging from international wire transfers to bespoke option strategies, we help clients manage their risk in all major and emerging markets currencies around the globe.

About Cadence Bank Foreign Exchange: The Foreign Exchange Trading Desk helps clients improve their competitiveness in global markets through the use of customized currency risk management strategies, in-depth analysis, and sound advice. With products ranging from international wire transfers to bespoke option strategies, we help clients manage their risk in all major and emerging markets currencies around the globe.

About Cadence Bank Foreign Exchange: The Foreign Exchange Trading Desk helps clients improve their competitiveness in global markets through the use of customized currency risk management strategies, in-depth analysis, and sound advice. With products ranging from international wire transfers to bespoke option strategies, we help clients manage their risk in all major and emerging markets currencies around the globe.

About Cadence Bank Foreign Exchange: The Foreign Exchange Trading Desk helps clients improve their competitiveness in global markets through the use of customized currency risk management strategies, in-depth analysis, and sound advice. With products ranging from international wire transfers to bespoke option strategies, we help clients manage their risk in all major and emerging markets currencies around the globe.

In a survey of 60 central bankers this month by Central Banking Publications and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, 23 percent said they own shares or plan to buy them. The Bank of Japan, holder of the second-biggest reserves, said April 4 it will more than double investments in equity exchange-traded funds to 3.5 trillion yen ($35.2 billion) by 2014. The Bank of Israel bought stocks for the first time last year while the Swiss National Bank and the Czech National Bank have boosted their holdings to at least 10 percent of reserves.

“In the last year or so, I have spoken with 103 central banks on diversification,” Gary Smith, London-based global head of official institutions at BNP Paribas Investment Partners, which oversees about $649 billion, said in a phone interview. “If reserves are growing, so are diversification pressures. Equities are not for every bank tomorrow, but more are continuing down this path.”

Managers of banks’ assets are looking for alternatives to holding government bonds after efforts to stimulate growth from the Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England helped send yields near to record lows. Central banks’ foreign- exchange holdings have increased by about $8.5 trillion globally in the past decade, exceeding levels needed for day-to-day currency administration.”

About Cadence Bank Foreign Exchange: The Foreign Exchange Trading Desk helps clients improve their competitiveness in global markets through the use of customized currency risk management strategies, in-depth analysis, and sound advice. With products ranging from international wire transfers to bespoke option strategies, we help clients manage their risk in all major and emerging markets currencies around the globe.

About Cadence Bank Foreign Exchange: The Foreign Exchange Trading Desk helps clients improve their competitiveness in global markets through the use of customized currency risk management strategies, in-depth analysis, and sound advice. With products ranging from international wire transfers to bespoke option strategies, we help clients manage their risk in all major and emerging markets currencies around the globe.

Roughtly two and a half years ago, a well-known analyst called for a massive wave of defaults in the municipal bond market. Never mind that when she made the call she had little or no experience in evaluating municipal bonds. Never mind that when she had made the call she had just left her former employer, formed her own company, and was no selling researchon municipal bonds. The market listened and, in late 2012, the muni market has done nothing but rally. In spite of this, worries about the massive defaults persist. Read More Whatever Happened to the Muni Bond Implosion?