Notional cash pooling avoids the physical transfer of foreign exchange, reducing FX risk. The US tech manufacturer's Yvione Zhou explains how it works in Asia.
The chemical giant is moving payments out of China to Thailand while switching hedging activities back to its Brussels head office. Its treasury team explains how it's going to work.
The regulator clarifies its relaxed rules on forwards settlement in FX and sets out several specific examples of financing needs for which treasurers can use such products to hedge.
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.
From today Chinese financial institutions no longer have to set aside 20 per cent of the value of dollar purchases. For treasurers, that means lower costs and an opportunity to hedge.
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.
In the second part of our series from Swift, the world’s largest payment system says finding the best use case is the secret to getting the most from the technology