J.P. Morgan’s wholesale payments team in China shared with CT why corporate onboarding has become so difficult. Meanwhile, a compliance professional at a European bank reveals the myriad challenges that hold up the ...
A rare week of good news has convinced some FX strategists to revise their forecasts, but it still makes sense to short the yuan while being prepared for moves in sterling and the US dollar
Changing consumer tastes? Brexit? Even hot summers? Could Thomas Cook's problems have been averted with a chief liquidity officer. CT examines the arguments for expanding the C-suite
A recent McKinsey report states slowing Chinese growth coupled with digital headwinds could see the bigger fishes eat the smaller fishes across the world of Asian banking.
Treasurers seeking to obtain higher returns through safe yet liquid assets could consider US and European structured credit as alternative to traditional investments.
If Twitter found that a 140-character limit was not enough, why are payment messages still confined to that number? Deutsche Bank thinks it’s time to use the 15-year old ISO20022 message format, but the road to ...
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
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.
With 60 banks now part of the Swift global payments initiative (gpi) network carrying out payments worth $100 billion a day, real-time cross-border funds transfer with full traceability is on the horizon