The Chinese payment firm, which helps MSMEs conduct cross-border trade, has plans for 200 countries, including Vietnam, Bangladesh, Thailand and Pakistan.
The group’s treasurer gave context to Pakistan’s current macroeconomic conditions, and his opinion on why corporates remain resilient in the face of the country’s fifth Covid-19 wave.
It can be red faces all round when it comes to debt financing without a healthy dose of ESG. Even in cost-sensitive emerging markets sustainable finance is going mainstream.
A battle over the soul of supply chain finance is raging as fintechs slam banks as outdated, banks accuse fintechs of being lightweights and the rating agencies who insist that trade credit is not debt
China’s Belt and Road will cut transport times and costs but countries along the trade routes would need to develop better safeguards to address the debt sustainability risks stemming from the project, according to ...
The Philippine central bank is resorting to a measure first implemented in the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. Is this the first sign of a big chill in regional FX markets?
Highly controlled and with tiny international reserves, there are many stumbling blocks to the renminbi as a global currency. But could emerging economies along the Belt and Road change all that?
Rafael "Joel" Consing, CFO of ICTSI, outlines how the container port operator changed its capital structure, among other strategies, in building its international profile.