HSBC’s strategic push to Asia promises explicit investment in transaction banking platforms and lending rates set to undercut existing lenders*, but the shift will be far less substantial than presumed.
A joint CT CBA poll examines the behaviour of corporate treasury departments throughout Asia-Pacific and finds dependence on counterparty ratings and local treasuries limited by central policy.
US-listed Moog Inc, a designer and maker of precision control systems, is the latest addition to a handful of MNCs granted a quota from China’s central bank to make cross-border renminbi intercompany loans.
Treasurers, CFOs and sell-siders delivered their verdicts over the future of funding in 2013 during the second annual Asia-Pacific Corporate Funding Forum held in Hong Kong on March 6th.