Expert view points

Who wants to own a car? If you are lucky enough to get the make and model you want, the price is eye-watering. There are increasingly strict environmental regulations, rising taxes and congestion charges to pay, while fuel prices are through the roof.

How Treasurers are Making the Most of Instant Payments

Asset managers in Asia Pacific are working hard to refine the recipe for sustainable investing. Selecting the right ingredients is the first step to success.

The boom in Australian property prices is well-known. But while most of the attention has focused on residential house prices, which rose 25% last year, an equally compelling story has been unfolding in commercial real estate. And though many analysts expect a sharp drop in the residential sector over the next two years in response to rising interest rates, we...

Following the TXF GLOBAL conference, a main event in the Export Finance industry, Cécile Camilli, Head of Development and Structured Export Finance (DSE), shares her views on the evolution of the sector and how the shift of DSE has impacted their business.

The future really is electric, with the humble battery at the centre of an evolving and expanding value chain that stretches all the way from mining scarce metals and mixing electrolytes and active materials; to assembling the individual cells into battery modules in giant gigafactories; to recycling them at the end of their useful lives.

Banking in the 80’s was a somewhat simpler business and climate change a topic for the future. Turn the clock forward three to four decades, and banking faces nothing short of a revolution as it works with multinationals, governments, and start-ups to decarbonise the global economy by 2050.

As payments continue down the digital journey, the industry is being forced to re-invent payment technologies to continue offering secure and efficient services. From increased collaboration to the industry’s need for combatting fraud, efficiency increasing and standardisation, today’s challenges offer a wide avenue for innovation.

After two years of uncertainty and turmoil in the transaction banking industry, we asked our experts about the challenges facing treasurers in the months and years ahead.

Landmark bond serves as model to finance the vast environmental and social ambitions of countries

An appropriate risk allocation across the CCS value chain can enable more projects to be project financed.

From virtually zero at the start of the coronavirus pandemic in spring 2020, to 5% a year later (May 2021), and a 40-year high of 8.6% in May, US consumer price inflation has blown through estimates, expectations and economists’ narratives. And America’s experience is being repeated across much of the rest of the world, including Asia Pacific. How can...

The expansion of the sustainable bond market is opening up new funding opportunities for a wider range of companies and connecting investors with projects that support Asia’s transition to a low-carbon future.

Securitisation of cars, homes and credit card receivables has a role to play in transitioning to a zero-carbon economy and reducing social inequality. While issuance is set to grow, challenges remain to be tackled along the way.

In many respects, the European Union, underpinned by a common currency, is a grand political project with the aim of fostering peace and stability. In other ways it is an eminently practical one, designed to help the European industry compete in an increasingly tough global marketplace.

This year, at Universwiftnet 2022, Societe Generale Global Transaction Banking's experts talked about the irresistible rise in central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)

In France alone, the bank has been involved in the financing of 25 fibre optic projects with all the major private operators, enabling the connection of 16 million homes and businesses.

Interconnectors deliver clean energy as well as flexibility and resilience to provide electricity to neighbor’s countries.