Expert view points

Clients want the world, and more. And why not? Delivering to clients what they need is, after all, literally our institutional raison d’être. Clients expect, even increasingly demand, levels of reliability, predictability, speed of delivery, transparency and simplicity that are unheard of in our industry. As we discuss here, the demands now being placed upon...

Technology is changing the nature of jobs within the financial industry. As fresh perspectives are required, banks should seek to create more diverse workforces who can bring different skills into play.

Trust cannot be dematerialised. This is a self-evident truth that I hope to demonstrate over the next few paragraphs in this consideration of cash management in the 21st century.

Examining the underlying fundamental reasons for the eruption of trade disputes.

President Emmanuel Macron took the fight for maritime decarbonisation to the G7 Summit in Biarritz on August 24-26 after an audience at the Elysee Palace with senior members of the maritime industry.

Exploring the risk thrown up by autocallables has created a new family of structured products, offering diversification to investors while allowing their manufacturers room to extend their portfolios.

A huge amount of progress has been achieved in recent times in the field of rapid, even nearly instant payments.

While cross-border payments are much easier than in the past thanks to digitalisation and regulation, there is still a lot of work to be done.

Blockchain has already been a buzzword for a long time but its potential to revolutionise the compliance industry is yet to be seen.

It is no exaggeration to state that trade is a vast and fragmented ecosystem, involving a wide range of different players across various industries: manufacturers, retailers, customs, transport and logistics, insurers, banks and others. All have a part to play in their interlocking local, regional and global networks.

Cross-border payments are getting faster, but friction remains, slowing some payments down. Will the industry ever achieve 100% STP (straight-through-processing) rates in cross-border payments?

As geopolitics and technology evolve, banks must support their clients. But to become truly valuable partners they will have to adopt a new mindset and learn to work together more effectively.

As new technologies invade the transaction banking area and widen its possibilities, stakeholder such as banks need to change their approach to remain relevant. In Asia, Supply Chain Finance is on the cusp of huge potential growth, driven by growing sophistication of market players and interest rate differentials.

Like other industries, the investment sector is quickly developing new ways for technology to augment the performance of people. While talented portfolio managers still manage much of the world's investment assets, quantitative investment strategies (strategies applying systematic rules to investment contents) have been shown to generate robust investment...