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.
Treasurers looking ahead to 2019 will need to be keenly aware of the geopolitical risk to currency movements. Has the US overplayed its hand? Will the Euro be resurgent? Read on…
“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.
A liquidity crisis caused by a defaulting non-banking financial institution has prompted corporate treasurers in India to move away from money market funds. It serves as yet another example of the importance of good ...
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
This year China saw some of the first defaults by local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) and next year, Moody's research indicates local governments will use them less. However, will there always be a place for ...
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