Some of the world’s top companies – also including Roche, GE and others – join Swift’s global payment initiative pilot. But whether other “Swift corporates” will be able to go GPI-active remains to be seen.
International payment network Swift has a long record but blockchain-based upstarts such as Ripple are nipping at its heels. Here, insiders from Swift and Ripple go head to head.
Siemens, Alibaba, Huawei and ZTE are all in the second batch of SAFE’s pilot for cross-border FX cash sweeping, netting and centralised payments transactions, CT has learnt.
Banks are now able to facilitate renminbi cross-border loans for corporates' activities outside of China. CT asks how important this pilot scheme really is.
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 ...