Expert view points

Michèle Cohas, head of the international payments offering, Elise Hoyet and Marilu-cia Miguel, product managers, at Societe Generale, explain how SWIFT MyStand-ards simplifies the implementation of payment messages.

The United Nations and the European Union have introduced prevailing frameworks and targets to boost development in a sustainable manner.

The globalisation of trade, coupled with the advent of fintechs, has brought major changes to the cross-border payment process.

The opening up of traditional data to new aspiring service providers opens up new realms of possibilities for challengers, but it also creates exciting and intriguing relationship opportunities for incumbent banking service players.

The demand for faster, even instant, payments is already a fact of everyday life. What will come next?

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.

One of the biggest investment trends over the past decade has been the shift from active to passive investing, with investors being attracted by lower fees and simplicity. Another popular trend is sustainable and responsible investing. Can passive investment strategies supplement active ones to further grow sustainable investing?

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.

Digitalisation is disrupting our daily lives. This is also true for the street lighting market as it paves the way for new use cases by turning the lamppost into a smart asset.

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.