The bank has moved $900 million across borders at lightning speed since tapping Ripple's blockchain solution. Its transaction services chief tells CT how, and details the limits of the system.
For treasurers with businesses in China, HNA’s liquidity squeeze is a signal lesson in how bad it can get. The affair stands to influence the whole banking sector’s non-performing loans.
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.
Higher onshore funding costs – as well as tighter credit conditions – continue to put pressure on Chinese corporates to raise debt outside the country.
Proposed legislation would make it an offence to fail to prevent the bribery of a foreign official – even if they’re just a candidate for public office.
As China's currency hits its highest levels since 2015, analysts say it’s not about to end there. That's already leading to steep foreign exchange losses for some Chinese exporters.
British bank hires high-profile ex-Deutsche banker as global head of transaction banking as it ramps up its fintech offering. A high-profile treasurer is also joining.
Europe's new financial regulations might be taking the risks out of the market, but it is putting risk back into the boardroom and onto the desks of corporate treasurers
China's regulator will no longer prop up its currency using the so-called "counter-cyclical" factor after it hit 6.5 to the dollar. Treasurers may now have to change their assumptions.