The bank payment obligation (BPO) is often seen as an earlier effort to digitise trade finance, but it may still have a role to play even as blockchain trade platforms mushroom every month
Cryptocurrency markets may continue to crash and ‘blockchain’ could go out of fashion, but it does not mean the digitization of trade finance will stop
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No … it’s a whole new way of looking at supply chain finance. Comic book legend Stan Lee has passed away and many corporate treasurers will be hoping their supply chain woes will too
HSBC and ING Bank Brussels have been behind the first cross-border trade transaction using blockchain in India. Could this be just a taste of things to come?
If trade tensions do disappear from the picture, the world of trade finance will be quite different over the coming years. It may not necessarily involve blockchain platforms, but it will definitely involve more than ...
After years of offering up cheap credit and low-cost trade finance services, regional banks are finally making meaningful in-roads with Asian customers.
The French bank intends to boost its presence in China and the Asia Pacific region. It's promoting three senior staff and poached two from Deutsche Bank.