Goldman Sachs is aiming to target corporate customers by 2020 but treasurers should remember a cash management technology professional’s warning – embrace innovation but don’t get locked in.
Fitch Ratings will use a new system to study ESG factors when compiling credit ratings. Moody’s warns that debt worth $2.2 trillion across 11 sectors could be downgraded due to environmental risk.
“Forget Buenos Aires,” said Alicia Garcia-Herrero, Natixis’ chief economist for the Asia Pacific region. She said Japan will gain in the short term due to tariffs but the broader picture, however, is quite complicated.
Is the future of treasury really going to be all about pushing the right button? Or will a human being always need to make sure the figures are in order? CTHK had the answer to these and many other questions
Cryptocurrency markets may continue to crash and ‘blockchain’ could go out of fashion, but it does not mean the digitization of trade finance will stop
Regulators appear set to crank up AML/CTF and sanctions-related work and now have their eye on individuals too. But with the rise of China, regulators will have their work cut out for them.
CT’s inaugural Hong Kong conference saw over 200 treasury-related professionals enjoy a day of thought-provoking discussion centred around the future of treasury in an increasingly digital and tech-savvy world
Getting the jump on FX movements is an artform: it involves finding common themes in disparate narratives and knitting them into real world scenarios. CT looks at some of the meatier metrics.