Isabelle Poussigues

Treasurers know what they want for their cross-border payments: seamless interoperability and liquidity management. This, however, is becoming harder to achieve amid geopolitical uncertainty and proliferating sanctions and compliance obligations. Add to that real-time operations, ISO 20022 standardisation and instant cross-border payments, it is easy to see...

To improve the operational efficiency of cross-border payments, payment service providers can count on several initiatives, notably Market initiatives, while remaining vigilant regarding symmetries or asymmetries of situations and of access within geographical areas.

The lines are moving in the world of cross-border payments; last September, Citigroup announced that it had completed a tokenized payment transaction between shipping giant Maersk and a channel authority. The beginning of a new era? And yet, does the image of openness and “decentralised” use, associated with cryptos, not contradict client expectations in this...

Against a backdrop of positive interest rates and expectations for rapid and instantaneous payments, control of treasury flows within banks has become a real additional challenge.

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are gaining interest even though they are in their infancy, and it is not clear how fast they will develop. Central banks' interest in the subject has not waned - no less than 100 central banks are working on the subject, but many questions remain unanswered.