US and Singapore agree to share fintech information; Singapore, HK combine multiple QR codes into one label; Indonesia to lower the ceiling on import duty exemption.
China Huadian — one of China’s five largest state-owned power generation enterprises —could be the first beneficiary of Hong Kong’s generous bond grant scheme.
Notional cash pooling avoids the physical transfer of foreign exchange, reducing FX risk. The US tech manufacturer's Yvione Zhou explains how it works in Asia.
Oil and gas multinational may have changed the transfer pricing landscape for all time. Just because two companies have independent boards, a court decided, doesn’t mean it’s arm’s length.
Some of the world’s top companies – also including Roche, GE and others – join Swift’s global payment initiative pilot. But whether other “Swift corporates” will be able to go GPI-active remains to be seen.
While today's technology makes it possible to process payments instantly, deep-rooted issues such as reconciliation, AML, compliance and FX seriously hamper banks’ abilities to evolve.
The perceptions of North American chief financial officers remain solidly upbeat, according to a new survey from Deloitte. And the biggest surprises concern China.