Nishtha Asthana

Japan's largest card network is exploring USDC to improve cross-border treasury operations and merchant payments.

Singapore's enhanced ESGenome platform is designed to simplify mandatory ISSB reporting, but its longer-term ambition is to transform sustainability disclosures into trusted digital infrastructure that supports procurement, treasury and green financing.

The rollout marks the first live deployment of Citi's integrated 24/7 USD Clearing and Citi Token Services, enabling near real-time cross-border USD payments outside traditional banking hours.

Companies should build sustainable finance around their business strategy rather than reshape their business to qualify for ESG funding, treasury leaders said at CT Week Philippines.

India’s domestic debt market extends its strong momentum with a massive single-day capital raise in early July.

Persistent currency volatility is forcing treasury teams to rethink how they manage exposure, with stronger forecasting, cross-functional collaboration and technology emerging as the foundations of effective FX risk management.

As volatility becomes a feature of the operating environment, Philippine treasury leaders are placing greater emphasis on resilience, funding flexibility, and strategic decision-making, rather than only reacting to market disruption, according to senior execs.

From blocked shipping lanes to soaring raw material costs, senior company executives warn that supply chain pressures are structural, not cyclical, and the bill is heading to consumers, with long-term finance planning becoming harder.

As geopolitical shocks compress planning horizons and AI reshapes finance, Asia's finance professionals are rebuilding and reassessing their functions, said an expert panel from Henderson Land, Chai Tai Fook Enterprises and SF Supply Chain.

Despite the race to adopt AI and use fintech tools, CFOs and treasury leaders say communication, judgement and teams matter, and that career paths in finance are becoming anything but linear, said a panel at CTWeek.

From supply chain disruptions, shifting assumptions around rates and tenant fragility, CFOs and treasurers are dealing with the ripple effects of uncertainty across balance sheets, according to a panel at CTWeek.

Telix Pharmaceuticals has upsized its convertible bond offering to $600m after strong institutional demand, pricing the five-year notes at a 1.5% coupon to fund a major repurchase of its existing 2029 paper.