CorporateTreasurer explains its reasoning behind the winners from our inaugural China Awards for the Best Transaction Banks and Solutions, in collaboration with FinanceAsia
Corporate treasurers and CFOs are backing a weaker renminbi in 2019, betting the People’s Bank of China will weaponise the currency to fight the escalating trade war.
A revolution in the way the public pays is being echoed in the corporate world. As the likes of BAML roll out innovation payment solutions for corporates, treasurers are weighing up the benefit.
From Kasikornbank in Thailand to HDFC in India, large corporates increasingly turn to local Asian banks over global players to meet their corporate banking needs in Asian markets.
Treasurers in Hong Kong are eyeing a US rate hike in September, but as uncertainty lingers – and the gap between the rates in HK and the US remains – the HKMA is left to bail out the currency.
Markets are skittish, prone to starting at shadows or gorging themselves on rumours. Is China’s ‘counter-cyclical bounce’ just the latest piece of scuttlebutt to affect the currency or is the writing on the wall?