Standard Chartered Bank

In an exclusive interview, Ricky Kaura, head of transaction banking Asia Pacific, Africa & Middle East at Standard Chartered addresses some of the key opportunities for the bank and its customers across areas like supply chain, sustainability, and technology.

No banks are truly global – all form partnerships to deliver local services to corporates, and how those partnerships are constructed is critical, write Byron Gardiner and Joey Lee of Standard Chartered.

From hybrid cash pooling structures with virtual accounts today to innovations that automate processes and intelligently redefine how cash pooling will be done tomorrow, the future of liquidity management holds exciting possibilities.

Distributed ledger technology poses huge opportunities, but to achieve its benefits more quickly, banks and other players in the financial ecosystem need to act faster towards making it a part of the global financial infrastructure.

The value of virtual accounts within the world of receivables is increasingly well known, but have treasurers considered their application in the payables space?