Combining exclusive interviews and submissions from Asia’s key transaction banks, CT has compiled ten top trade finance strategies from the last year. This is part three of five of the full write ups.
The top fifteen countries by deal value for ECA financing, structured commodity financing, supply chain finance, trade flow business, and syndicated trade financing loans.
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.
European banks are pulling financing out of Asia with Singapore and Hong Kong badly hurt, especially in trade finance. Asian banks are taking some of the slack.
HSBC has hired Bhriguraj Singh as its head of product management for global trade and receivables finance Asia Pacific, a new role for the British-headquartered bank.