Winners of the CorporateTreasurer Awards 2025 will be announced at the dinner on 30 October, celebrating excellence in treasury functions across Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

Postal services across Asia Pacific are dealing with the fallout from the removal of so-called  US &#8216;de minimis&#8217; tariff exemption from small packages below the value of $800 sent to the US; also this week, 50% tariffs on many goods being sent from India to the US have started. 

Aavishkaar Capital provides credit to mid-sized MSMEs operating in the supply chain with a social and environmental impact, in India, emerging Asia such as Indonesia and Vietnam, and Africa. 

Experiments have proved availability of direct payments from bank accounts to digital wallets. 

The funds were raised to further support the firm&#8217;s cleaner energy supply to remote mining sites across Australia; this is the first debt fundraising from Octa Group. 

Surveys show Hong Kong's SMEs facing rising costs, late payments, a tight credit stance from banks, and tariffs, despite an overall economic recovery in the SAR; bad weather has also been an issue this summer.  

The sustainability linked financing covers greenfield and operational assets across Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore, and involved a consortium of 60 banks. The financing comes after Blackstone and CPPIB's acquisition of the group last year. 
 


The softening jobs market in the US could see the US Fed act in September; however inflation pressure from tariffs are a concern. 

The proceeds raised by the Singapore firm will be used to refinance existing debts and for general corporate purposes; Starhill has commercial properties across Apac and raised a S$600m SLL in March.

The record green loan for the data centre, to be built in Singapore, has been supported by a consortium of banks. Cr&#233;dit Agricole CIB, DBS and ING were the&#8239;global coordinators and sustainability structuring agents; the loan has an option to convert into a SLL.  

As regional regulations ramp up, AllianzGI is increasingly focusing on corporate governance of portfolio companies through tools such as the preannouncement of voting and risk-based engagement. 

Against the backdrop of globalisation, Chinese enterprises are accelerating their "going global" initiatives. The next step is overcoming key challenges to their international operations: how to effectively manage overseas funds and optimise global resource allocation.  

When some of Hong Kong&#8217;s top treasury and finance executives gathered at an exclusive event co-hosted by UOB Hong Kong and CorporateTreasurer in mid-2025, the message was clear: embrace and embed environmental and social values with financial operations through stewardship and innovative sustainable financing instruments to build resilient, future-ready treasury functions. 

China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) has cultivated a new approach to treasury management, in turn strengthening its risk management, creating cost and other efficiencies, and enhancing value.

As Asia Pacific (APAC) corporations seek to expand their global footprint, the role of treasury and finance teams is undergoing a significant transformation. J.P. Morgan Payments&#8217; Manish Patel  shares his thoughts on how treasurers can drive success. 

Agreements to import more goods from the US rather than from the Middle East or other Asian nations could heighten inflation risks; however Bangladesh's apparel sector should benefit. 

The bank is expecting the economy to slow in the second half of the year as the impact of US tariffs kick in; SMEs and housing loans are of particular concern. 

This idea behind the framework is to improve liquidity management and operational speed through six key policy areas. 

Annapoorna Venkataramanan, head of treasury, risk, insurance and capex investments, ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India, revealed to CT the firm's strategy towards capital investments and treasury transformation in the fast-changing steel sector. 

With fiduciary duty reforms and audit oversight changes now law, Korean corporates face growing shareholder pressure on capital allocation, dividend policy and financial transparency &#8211; placing treasury functions in the spotlight.

Kelvin Li, general manager of platform tech at Ant International, discussed with CT the fintech&#8217;s digital assets strategy to support large-volume, intragroup, cross-border fund moves. 

The aim of the Austrian manufacturing group subsidiary is to help develop the country's data strategy through creating an integrated circuit substrate facility at Kulim Hi-Tech Park. 

Read on to find out the winners and highly commendeds of our CT Awards 2025.

Apac postal services, firms scramble as US 'de minimis' exemption removed; 50% India tariffs begin

JICA invests $40m in Indian fund to 'unlock' inclusion, sustainable growth at Asian MSMEs

Swift, Standard Chartered and Ant International collaborate on bank-to-wallet payments

Australia’s Octa agrees A$355m loan from Clifford Capital, NAB and SMBC for clean energy push

Hong Kong SMEs grapple with rising costs, payment issues

AirTrunk closes A$16bn refinancing

US interest rates cut hopes rise after Jackson Hole summit

Starhill Global REIT secures A$100m SLL

AirTrunk secures S$2.25bn green loan for data centre

Investor ramps up stewardship strategies to raise ESG awareness

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