While today's technology makes it possible to process payments instantly, deep-rooted issues such as reconciliation, AML, compliance and FX seriously hamper banks’ abilities to evolve.
Hong Kong's draft rules on base erosion and profit shifting – perhaps the biggest shake-up of the corporate tax system since the 1940s – go too far, according to businesses in the city.
Companies in China are more confident than they’ve been for five years, according to the latest survey. But going forward, will the picture always remain this rosy?
It’s said the secret to a good relationship is never having an opinion – and it seems the same applies to hedging. One of Hong Kong’s most successful funds tells CT how to get hedging right.
Francis Wai King-fai, CFO of Dah Chong Hong Holdings, Hong Kong’s trading, auto and logistics conglomerate, talks to CT about the trials of piloting cash pooling in China, searching for non-European banks, and ...
It's never too late to prepare. This is CT's "Euro Withdrawal Crisis Contingency Plan": advice on what to expect if a country withdraws from the eurozone.