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.
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.
Hong Kong's draft rules on base erosion and profit shifting – perhaps the biggest shake-up of the corporate tax system since the 1940s – go too far, according to businesses in the city.
Companies in China are more confident than they’ve been for five years, according to the latest survey. But going forward, will the picture always remain this rosy?
With as many as 700 companies – including multinationals – paying no Australian tax at the end of 2017, the government announces tighter laws around foreign trusts.
Cryptocurrencies' problem is they’re often backed by little more than hope and hype. Bridgecoin, however, says it’s about to change all that. CT looks at its mechanisms and challenges.