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Insights
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Tap into deep local expertise with global insights designed to help you grow across borders.
Leadership viewpoints
Insights from our leaders to help you navigate growing complexity and set a path for sustainable growth.
Boosting FDI in emerging economies
Investors can help unlock key financial and societal returns, says Roberto Hoornweg, Co-Head Corporate & Investment Banking.
Escaping the sustainability debt trap
Debt conversions can unlock fiscal space for developing countries while mobilising sustainable finance at scale, writes Group Chairman Dr José Viñals.
How to make the most of Gen AI
Chief Strategy & Talent Officer Tanuj Kapilashrami shares her insights on how a 'skills passport' can help colleagues prepare.
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Optimising working capital to drive growth in post-pandemic …
For the past 10 years, driving greater efficiencies within the treasury …
31 Aug 2022
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Optimising cash in Asia: Immediate priorities, new opportuni…
As 2022 arrives, treasury teams across Asia remain challenged by the imp…
20 Jan 2022
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Global H2-23 Outlook Podcast – Balancing on the summit
Growth hopes have shifted towards emerging markets, where India, ASEAN a…
02 Aug 2023
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China’s Greater Bay Area – looking to the future
While investment, sales, orders and hiring will suffer this year, manufa…
16 Sep 2020
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MNCs aggressively pushing carbon cuts on suppliers; carbon o…
FAIL to cut carbon emissions in line with the net zero plans of their bi…
07 Jul 2021
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Trade opportunities in high-growth corridors
Short-term concerns shouldn't obscure the long-term growth trend in Asia…
12 Jun 2023
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ISO 20022 in focus with Standard Chartered Bank
Challenges when it comes to payments can be viewed through two lenses: g…
14 Apr 2022
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Reshaping global trade: The rise of South-South corridors
Closer economic ties between fast-growing developing markets are transfo…
23 Jul 2025
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Digitalising the lifeline of the Global Economy
The importance of having true visibility over one’s supply chains was ra…
22 Sep 2020
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Why Singapore and Vietnam mean business
At first glance, there may appear to be few similarities between the eco…
28 Sep 2022
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Looking for growth? Emerging Asia is the present and future
A recent article in the Financial Times questions the attractiveness of …
16 Aug 2019
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Adaptation advantage: business survival in a global pandemic
The spread of COVID-19 worldwide has affected everyone, from small busin…
17 May 2020
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Collaboration key to going global
By Goh Beng Kim, Head, Commercial Banking, Singapore, Standard Ch…
21 Nov 2018
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Lighting the way for Indonesia’s energy transition
As the largest country in ASEAN, Indonesia accounts for around two-fifth…
10 Nov 2021
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Going the Distance
Like many other organisations, Scommerce has been buffeted by the challe…
11 Sep 2020
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Driving the future of global trade: UAE and Singapore’…
A rapidly evolving trade environment is driving global logistic hubs, Si…
09 Dec 2024
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Asia’s Sustainability Opportunity
Asia is behind on its sustainable push compared to other parts of the wo…
28 Sep 2020
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Leaning into its strengths, Singapore’s financial sector has…
As companies around the world strive to navigate volatile macroeconomic …
27 Oct 2022