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Real-time payments in an increasingly connected world

The adoption of real-time payment systems across the globe is creating a…

13 Jan 2020

How cash can help the UN Sustainable Development Goals

The UN estimates emerging markets need USD2.5 trillion a year. Here&#821…

12 Nov 2019

Digital, crypto and tokenised assets in securities services

This is not only opening the investment world to a wider client base, it…

20 Sep 2019

Payments innovation for financial inclusion

Financial inclusion enables and empowers people and communities and can …

16 Sep 2019

How corporates and banks can promote sustainable trade

Momentum to drive sustainable trade has been good, but there are still c…

11 Sep 2019

ASEAN needs to re-think approach to US$2.8 trillion infrastr…

Infrastructure investment in ASEAN from 2016 through 2030 is estimated t…

03 Apr 2019

Digitising treasury in a real-time world

Treasurers who explore emerging technologies and evaluate potential solu…

01 Apr 2019

Belt and Road: International Banking Experience with Local E…

The 2016 China Academy of Social Sciences report highlights challenges f…

20 Mar 2019

Belt and Road: One masterplan. Six economic corridors of pow…

China's Belt and Road set six economic corridors to focus investment, ad…

03 Jan 2019

Belt and Road: Keeping commodities moving

By improving infrastructure and easing trade flow, the Belt and Road ini…

The increasing importance of Belt and Road on the growth of …

The initiative benefits China and Africa, strengthening Sino-African eco…

09 Oct 2018

What the Belt and Road initiative means for business in Bang…

Bangladesh gains from regional trade as BRI projects grow, enhancing loc…

What the Belt and Road initiative means for the world

The Belt and Road Initiative revives ancient trade routes by land and se…

Belt and Road by numbers

China’s BRI, launched by President Xi in 2013, modernizes Silk Road rout…

Managing risk in emerging markets

Firms must become more proactive in managing emerging-market risk amid i…

20 Oct 2016

Impact investing: doing well by doing good

Opportunities have never been so available for investors who seek more t…

20 Aug 2015