Tag: corporates

Firms, both large and small, are trying to leverage new technology to redefine business operations. CT spoke with Broadridge’s German Soto Sanchez about some of the efforts and challenges implementing AI, infrastructure, talent and tokenisation.

Debt capital markets’ traditional resistance to change continues to hold back deployment of blockchain technology in terms of both bond issuance and post-trade processing.

Fitch Ratings’ (Fitch) Buddhika Piyasena, managing director, head of Apac corporates, and Emmanuel Bulle, senior director and head of research for EMEA and Apac corporates, discuss the agency’s outlook on various corporate sectors in Asia.

Pravin Advani and Kerwin Clayton are set to take on expanded roles, from August.

Experts at White & Case share some of the challenges that come with green finance, and the risks that corporates face by ignoring ESG and data protection laws.

A collaboration between Vemanti, Finastra and Lendscape will expand the financing solutions on offer to Southeast Asia’s community of SMEs. The launch of a new digital bank is set to follow.

The pair’s collaboration will offer corporates improved access to the bank’s suite of treasury tools.

CT caught up with the Singaporean bank to learn about recent digital developments across its UOB Infinity platform and its newly launched SME app.

HSBC’s strategic push to Asia promises explicit investment in transaction banking platforms and lending rates set to undercut existing lenders*, but the shift will be far less substantial than presumed.

As one of the world’s most important banks for treasurers pivots to Asia, CT speaks to HSBC's head of cash & payments, Kee Joo Wong about the implications for corporates.

The People's Bank of China cut the renminbi benchmark lending and deposit rates, while further liberalising market limits; The State Bank of Vietnam’s raised the USD/VND exchange rate; India's new electronic Know Your Customer system will soon be ready for corporates.

Surveys show 74% of corporates with renminbi exposures cite CIPS delays as their most important regulatory concern, while others identify deregulation.