Strategy

The Australian exchange has also hired a COO and a clearing and settlement managing director.

Treasurers need to be critical thinkers, self-starters and good communicators to show their strategic importance to a firm, according to market experts.

The global weather phenomenon is already raising food and commodity prices, and increasing input costs, putting pressure on margins and working capital.

The Chinese entertainment firms plan to use the funds to manage their balance sheets, shareholder returns and invest in the use of AI.

The $250m commitment will help support Asian SMEs on cross-border trade and digitalisation.

With many currencies weakening against the dollar, exceptions were the Indian rupee and the Korean won.

The Singapore-headquartered company has launched a Sustainable Finance Framework and secured a S$406m SLL.

Ler Lily has most recently been CEO of Mapletree Trust Management.

As firms move beyond spot market purchases, forward offtake agreements are a hedge for treasurers looking to de-risk, says Tencent's Andy Yu.

Jardine Engineering & Infrastructure has also named Kevin O’Brien as CEO as it eyes regional expansion.

As board demands grow, CFO skills are increasingly sought after for non-executive roles - and finance leaders are bringing those strategic insights back to their own C-suite, Paul Golden reports.

The five-year sustainability-linked refinancing consolidates several loan facilities into a single, multi-currency structure across multiple funding currencies; the Apac property firm wants to grow its core logistics and data centre businesses.