The trade finance industry is now at an inflexion point as corporate credit rating pressures, resulting in downgrades and failures in some quarters. Now the time is ripe for trade finance to step into the breach to ...
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.
After the emphatic "No" vote by Greece’s electorate to agree to Europe’s credit terms, CT has leafed through market research reports to deliver a quick guide to the implications for Greece, Europe, Asia, and major ...
Utilising subsidiaries’ cash at the group level has become vital as more Asian corporates move onto the international stage. Bank independence is viewed as the Holy Grail of treasury.
Valspar has added renminbi to its global cash pool currencies through a dividend payment to its US headquarters and has future plans for the Shanghai free trade zone (FTZ).