Trade financing – where financial institutions provide credit facilities to guarantee exchange of goods – is long overdue a blockchain overhaul. Standard Chartered and Siemens believe they’ve made the first step.
US enforcement action this year resulted in a $280m settlement and provides a textbook case in everything your compliance officer needs to know about anti-bribery programmes.
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.
ABB, GE, Honeywell and Siemens have already profited from the Belt and Road Initiative. CT tells you how to help your company do so too – while minimising the risks.
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?
Cryptocurrencies' problem is they’re often backed by little more than hope and hype. Bridgecoin, however, says it’s about to change all that. CT looks at its mechanisms and challenges.
Amid a welter of public accusations and counter claims, a bizarre spat is emerging at the troubled electric car firm whose main backer is controversial LeEco founder Jia Yueting.
As a leading light in cybersecurity, Deloitte was left with egg on its face when its email platform was hit by a cyberattack. Is it time for a whole new security architecture?