Where does Libor live in a bank? Why are banks in Asia not looking at Libor transition seriously? Which bank is racing ahead? It’s been an interesting couple of weeks for Libor transition watchers.
Corporates using eTradeConnect, a Hong Kong-based trade finance platform, will be able to digitally exchange shipping documents, but individuals at Hong Kong FinTech Week warned the voyage ahead might be choppy.
Changing consumer tastes? Brexit? Even hot summers? Could Thomas Cook's problems have been averted with a chief liquidity officer. CT examines the arguments for expanding the C-suite
A senior DBS banker says the Singapore bank has embraced a client-focused digital ecosystem approach. Meanwhile, there appears to be trouble in paradise at a blockchain developer.
If Twitter found that a 140-character limit was not enough, why are payment messages still confined to that number? Deutsche Bank thinks it’s time to use the 15-year old ISO20022 message format, but the road to ...
Japan grants cryptocurrency body regulatory powers; blockchain firms in China need to register identities; Trading begins at Shenzhen-based HKEx owned commodities exchange.
Hong Kong’s securities regulatory chief Carlson Tong Ka-shing may be on the way out, but he has signalled that cryptocurrencies have a future in the city even if there’s still a long road ahead for crypto compliance
With 60 banks now part of the Swift global payments initiative (gpi) network carrying out payments worth $100 billion a day, real-time cross-border funds transfer with full traceability is on the horizon
For corporate treasurers already mired in the costly, slow and opaque world of cross-border payments, ether could offer a real solution: real-time, cost-free, “crypto-payments” with the need to buy cryptocurrency.