Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development has signed up for Swift’s Know Your Customer (KYC) Registry. Similar initiatives could help treasurers get onboarded with banks faster.
A survey of China’s top companies reported a marked dissatisfaction with trade finance and liquidity management services, products they also ranked as among the most important, according to East & Partners.
Indonesia July PMI reaches 51.4 with strong growth in new orders, HSBC economists show, but other regional manufacturing PMI numbers are dismal for July
Indicator of confidence in trade finance is modestly up in Asia, according to a recent study commissioned by HSBC, but it’s debatable how useful the index is.