Tag: tokenisation

Two groundbreaking projects, Project Ensemble and Project Guardian, are setting the stage for digital asset innovation in Hong Kong and Singapore.

OCBC’s impressive run at the CorporateTreasurer awards includes winning top honours for its digital, and FX and hedging solutions across Asia Pacific and Singapore, and best sustainable treasury solutions for Singapore. CorporateTreasurer spoke to OCBC for a deeper insight into the factors that drove this result and what the future holds.

The partners have achieved a market first for Hong Kong’s treasury landscape.

Sumanta Panigrahi and Thus De Silva take on leadership roles at Citi, while the business works to deliver cutting edge tokenised services.

The digital asset launch, which started last week and closed today, aims to offer both traders and investors an alternative way of funding and investing in trade and supply chain finance products.

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.

CorporateTreasurer spoke with Swift head of ASEAN, Sharon Toh, on Swift’s latest initiative to embed CBDCs within existing payment networks.

A new initiative by Swift aims to bridge the gap between blockchain-based platforms and existing payment systems.

The move opens investors to new private credit opportunities and, in turn, promotes access to funding for corporates in the region.

Davin Wu joins the firm from sustainability-focussed construction firm, DIT. He tells CT about his priorities, which include capturing growth opportunity in the institutional space.

The issuance is among the first debt tokenisation transactions in Asia and underscores the potential of blockchain technologies to transform capital markets.

Today: Mobile payment tokenisation to surge by 2025; New funding platform to plug trade finance gap; and Citi bolsters Asia Pacific custody and fund services.