Trade Finance

UOB ties up with Santander UK to facilitate overseas expansion for SMEs

Businesses can gain access to the two banks’ product and service offerings.

Can trade finance plug the gap left by Australian banks' retreat from wealth?

Over a third of businesses expect trade finance demand to rise in the coming year.

No bank is an island: Beating trade finance challenges

Banks build alliances to tread tricky waters of technology and regulation.

Big Australian banks brace themselves for foreign competition in transaction banking

Corporate clients seek out new partners with trade finance capabilities.

Almost half of Chinese banks in Hong Kong to focus on RMB internationalisation in 2018

Hong Kong will be the first and biggest beneficiary of the trend.

Philippine banks to rely less on trading gains in 2018

Trading and forex income could decline by 6%.

DBS appoints Mark Troutman as group head of sales for global transaction services

The GTS business constitutes 31% of the bank’s institutional banking business income. 

Deutsche Bank appoints Atul Jain as APAC head of trade finance and trade finance flow

Jain's appointment is effective immediately. Based in Singapore, Mr. Jain will be responsible for leading the trade finance business in the region...

Twenty-two more banks join the SWIFT gpi blockchain proof of concept

China Construction Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui, and Westpac are amongst the 22 banks.

ICBC Asia's COO to discuss how third party payment providers threaten traditional banks at the 2017 Banking Forum in Hong Kong

Jimmy Chan says real-time cross-border payment progresses in line with the international development of e-commerce. Jimmy Chan, chief operation...

Domestic banks in peril as firms turn to non-bank lenders for supply chain funding

Chinese corporates have signalled the strongest shift towards international banks.

24 APAC banks commit to implement SWIFT gpi

Over 110 banks in total have now joined gpi.

National Australia Bank's head of trade & working capital talks of trade finance compliance: How can a bank be truly effective?

Mark Borton reveals why the blame is usually on 'trade' when things go wrong and a bank is fined.