Treasury

Global fintech Choco Up has teamed up with digital credit firm CHUAN; the annual financing gap for SMEs is estimated at $2.5 trillion.

As treasurers show more interest in the use of digital assets, the two firms will integrate stablecoins into payment flows over the next few months.

Market fragmentation has left Asian treasurers playing catch-up when it comes to leveraging the benefits of artificial intelligence. Paul Golden spoke to several senior market participants.

The renewal and modernisation of container ships is a priority for the global firm, including the use of green methanol-powered ships.

An increasing number of Asian companies are holding cryptocurrency on their balance sheets as a treasury asset, however, there is a reluctance to discuss strategy and potential pitfalls. Paul Golden reports.

The Fed is concerned about inflation coming from tariffs and energy prices. An attack on the world's largest gas facility is increasing concerns of a prolonged conflict in the Middle East as the price of oil soars above $110 a barrel. Many Asian countries are taking emergency measures.

Fighting AI with AI is one response for treasurers and finance teams to a growing sophisticated number of cybercrime attacks, such as deepfakes, according to a consultancy.

Lake is a senior executive who joins the global property firm from Accenture, where she was deputy CFO of its EMEA business.

The private healthcare firm has rebuilt its treasury architecture to prioritise liquidity mobility, policy-driven hedging and system-led control amid rate volatility and fragmented capital markets. CT spoke with Manjiv Dodanwela, the firm's transformation lead for group treasury.

Payments, including remittances, across Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, China, Germany, India, Pakistan, Spain, Thailand, the UK and the US, will come with certainty of cost, end-to-end traceability, and faster speeds, with over 25 banks go live by the end of June.

AirTrunk’s TOK1 hyperscale data centre campus in East Tokyo is scalable to over 300MW of capacity towards Japan's overall cloud and AI investment ambitions; 12 banks were involved in the deal.

The stock exchanges in South Korea and Thailand were temporarily halted on March 4, while Iran has issued a stark warning for the Strait of Hormuz.