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As global trade tensions deepen, Luca Corsini, Head of Global Transaction Banking at UniCredit, argues that this doesn’t necessarily spell bad news for trade finance and highlights new opportunities arising as economic influence shifts to Asia.

Express SCF levels the playing field, enabling buyers to offer supply chain finance to all suppliers, says Orbian Chairman Thomas Dunn.

A number of drivers are transforming the world of transaction banking, says Hasan Khan, Group Head of Transactional Products and Services at Standard Bank.

Using APIs to connect with customers’ systems, DBS offers scalable, real-time transaction services that enhance operational efficiency and transform business models.

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New technologies and industry collaborations offer corporates a way to digitise the end-to-end supply chain, writes James Waud, Head of Large Corporate Transaction Services Sales and Inbound Banking at NatWest.

How do Instant Payments and Virtual Card Accounts Fit In?

Simon Kaufmann, head of client relations and marketing, explains how treasury aggregators (also known as bank connectivity solution providers) like Fides, can help companies bridge the technology gap between their old treasury management and a new cloud-based TMS without an enormous financial commitment. 

Anshu Kapoor, Head of Private Wealth Management at India’s Edelweiss Financial Services Ltd, discusses the recent surge in wealth creation in India and his firm's professional wealth management services that address the many issues and risks faced by high net ...

In November 2018, Global Finance magazine named the BPS-Sberbank’s internet unit—Sberbank Business Online—the Best Digital Corporate Bank in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe. The unit also succeeded in three corporate sub-categories for Central and Eastern Europe: Best Online Portal Services, Most Innovative Digital Bank, and Best Integrated Corporate Bank Site.

Opportunities abound in trade finance.

In business, everything starts and ends with a payment. Companies receive payments from customers and make payments to their suppliers every day and the finance department is responsible for ensuring that the company is paying the right amounts and receiving the expected sums. Often, companies are processing these payments in multiple locations, with different teams working with local banks, customers and vendors. However, the move towards more digital payment methods is changing the payment landscape — rapidly.

In February 2018, Gruppo ITAS Assicurazioni (Itas), a leading mutual insurance company in Italy, became one of the first insurance companies in Europe to initiate a virtual account structure for its incoming payments – setting a benchmark in terms of ...

Corporate treasurers are aware that they must navigate an increasingly complex environment, the BCG and BNP Paribas 2018 Corporate Treasury Survey has revealed. As well as facing new risks – like cyber security, which the survey shows now ranks among ...

Artificial intelligence and virtual advisors, authorization of transactions with the use of face or voice identification - it is not a futuristic vision of the world, but the solutions that are already being implemented by banks all over the world. ...

The in-depth research set out to understand the impact of FinTech and the disintermediation of the cross border transactions and payments businesses on mid-size European banks. A series of interviews with heads of correspondent banking, cash management and transaction banking ...

The limit on interest deductibility is impacting the way that firms finance domestic mergers and acquisitions which is fueling the existing trend for US companies to pursue foreign M&A. Why invest in foreign companies? Growing a business internationally has always ...

2018 marks the 10th anniversary of the catastrophic crisis that rolled through global markets threatening financial Armageddon until, at the second attempt, the US government coordinated an effective rescue plan. The most malignant parts of the financial sector were variously ...

UK payments infrastructure is in a time of great change – presenting an opportunity for those banks that are at the forefront of these changes to enable a wider choice of payment options to consumer customers while offering a wider ...

Instant payments are now live all over the world – meaning the migration to real-time banking is well underway. Uptake has been substantial – surprisingly so in the case of Europe’s SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) payment scheme, which ...