Features
AI’s Delicate Banking Balancing Act
Banks face AI disruption after years of recovery; Efficiency gains and higher returns are in sight, but adoption is slow, costly—and risky.
Transaction Banking
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
How Autonomous Treasury Speeds Cash Visibility
The advent of autonomous treasury has ignited a competitive push, complete with aggressive industry targets. Not all companies will want to proceed at the same speed.
Transaction Banking
Corridor of Power: China’s Inland Hub Connects to ASEAN
Thanks to the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, trade and economic cooperation between inland China and Southeast Asia are growing fast.
Sponsored Content
Decoding Africa’s Payments Landscape: AI, Regulation and Trade Innovation
Leveraging modular solutions, AI-driven security, and innovative Payment rails to drive growth and resilience across the continent, African markets are setting the stage for a secure, intelligent, and interoperable financial future. Thabo Makoko, Head of Transaction Banking at Standard Bank Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB), shares insights on how the region’s Payments ecosystem is rapidly evolving.
Transaction Banking
Going Deeper: Trade Finance in Asia
Trade finance is booming across Asia. But SMEs and micro enterprises still struggle for attention, and complex rules hold back progress.
Transaction Banking
Shaping New Trade Corridors
War in Iran and US tariffs are destabilizing global trade. But commerce hasn’t slowed; it’s simply rerouting.
Technology
NYSE Plans Tokenized 24/7 Trading
The NYSE is building a blockchain-powered platform for 24/7 trading and instant settlement of tokenized securities, aiming to modernize global capital markets and challenge traditional trading hubs.
Award Winners
World’s Best Supply Chain Finance Providers 2026
Amid an unstable global economy, companies are integrating supply chain finance more deeply into their corporate finance strategy.
Sponsored Content
Beyond Banks: Redefining Flexibility in Global Supply Chain Finance
Markus Schiffers of Orbian explains how a bank-agnostic funding model and scalable supplier onboarding are enabling multinationals to unlock working capital with greater flexibility, faster rollout and broader supplier inclusion – particularly in complex markets globally.
Transaction Banking
Kinetic Treasury Arrives
New blockchain solutions are integrating corporate treasury and retail banking, and opening the transactions system to multiple issuers of tokenized deposits and stablecoins. But regulators worry these innovations could make the global system more fragile.
Transaction Banking
World’s Best Trade Finance Providers 2026
Digitalization, AI, and tokenization are the most visible changes, but sustainability and a new focus on market and segment specialization are now fundamental as well.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Trade Didn’t Crack—It Shifted
The world braced for a Washington-made rupture last year. Trade held up, while China flooded many regions with its exports.
Transaction Banking
HSBC, ANT Test Tokenized Deposits Via Swift
The test was the first example of leveraging the Swift network and ISO 20022 messaging standard.
Sponsored Content
Beyond Speed and Cost: The Push for Transparency in Cross-Border Payments
As cross-border payments evolve, Frantz Teissèdre, Head of Public Affairs for Cash Clearing Services at Societe Generale and a member of the G20 Payments, Interoperability, and Extension (PIE) Task Force, examines how the focus on transparency is raising the bar for efficiency, security, and trust in global payments systems.
Technology
Building The Tokenized Future
Global banks are bringing traditional and decentralized finance together as they race to devise the plumbing of a new financial system.