StanChart and Baoxin Group; HSBC and Saint-Gobain; and Citi and Roche have announced new cash programmes relating to pooling and netting in the Shanghai free trade zone following central bank clarifications.
Taiwanese treasurers expressed generally higher levels of treasury product satisfaction than their relative regional peers – notably with e-banking services – according to East & Partners research.
Swift and the Thai government will speed up transactions and make it easier for the country to connect to its ASEAN neighbours by implementing the newest bank messaging standards.
The Singapore Stock Exchange is pushing the use of ISO20022 messaging format actions for corporate announcements. The general response from smaller companies has been muted at best, however.
ANZ has gone live with its mobile payment app that allows treasurers to approve payments on the go. The lender is Australia's first local bank to venture into the mobile app space for companies.