Trade Finance
Big Australian banks brace themselves for foreign competition in transaction banking
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...
Three in five banks report trade finance shortage in the global market
The estimated trade finance gap stands at US$1.6t.
Learn more about Hong Kong's real-time payments market from Hang Seng Bank's Stéphan Levieux
He will be one of the panelists at the 2017 Banking Forum in Hong Kong.
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.
Global transaction banks developing blockchain proof of concept
ANZ and DBS are amongst the banks working with SWIFT.
Citi India launches new digital cross-border payment solution
Corporate clients won't need physical documents for international payments.
Hong Kong banks team up with Deloitte, HKMA to develop distributed ledger technology proof of concept
Participants include BOCHK, BEA, Hang Seng, HSBC, and StanChart.
Kasikornbank launches funds transfer service for all AEC+3 currencies at every branch
It's the first bank to have a transfer service for the 10 Asean currencies and the yuan, yen and won.
Kasikornbank opens second Border Trade Business Centre in Mukdahan
The bank aims to boost value of border trade by US$22m.
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