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Treasury & Capital Markets
Digital payments giant Visa and financial software firm Finastra have launched a Banking as a Service (BaaS) offering that will enable financial institutions to offer faster cross-border payouts for their customers in multiple currencies and countries.
23 Sep 2022
When a factory wants to remove toxic waste, it charges a negative price for it: its managers pay someone to get rid of it. But when central banks begin to treat money like car manufacturers treat spent sulfuric acid, one knows that something is rotten in the kingdom of financialized capitalism
23 Sep 2022
Agreena, a Danish agtech start-up that sells carbon credits generated by farmers who transition to more regenerative farming practices, has joined a distributed ledger technology (DLT) test project that aims to incorporate tokenized assets into traditional financial instruments.
22 Sep 2022
Surging inflation and an ongoing economic slowdown should have hurt demand for the US dollar, and yet the greenback is at a 20-year high. The US economy’s relative strength and the Fed’s rapid monetary tightening will likely keep the dollar strong for some time
22 Sep 2022
Michael Buzza has wealth of experience in risk management, commercial partnerships, financial markets
22 Sep 2022
Deal aims to support Western firms with supply-chain flows into Asia, Africa and the Middle East
22 Sep 2022
Rising offshore rates, risk market return concerns, lack of new issues, secondary market liquidity
22 Sep 2022
Globalization survived Brexit and Donald Trump, and it appeared to be thriving even after the Covid-19 pandemic. But with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the economic “mutual assured destruction” that was supposed to deter decoupling apparently reached its limits
22 Sep 2022
Singapore’s DBS has partnered with fintech firm FinLync to enable corporates to accelerate the digitalization of their treasury functions by integrating with the bank’s API (application programming interface) suite.
21 Sep 2022
ABC Impact, an impact investment firm backed by Temasek Trust, the philanthropic unit of Singapore wealth fund Temasek, has invested in Innovafeed, a Paris-based producer of sustainable animal feed and plant nutrition ingredients from insects. Other investors in Innovafeed’s latest US$250 million funding round include global agribusiness companies ADM and Cargill, as well as existing investors Temasek and Creadev.
21 Sep 2022
Despite ‘very high’ private debt, strong exports, tourism recovery, policy support predicted
21 Sep 2022
With the rapid adoption of digital payment methods, particularly since the onset of the pandemic, a growing number of countries worldwide are being drawn into developing their own central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). At least 105 countries, representing over 95% of the global GDP, are exploring a CBDC, according to the Atlantic Council, a Washington, DC-based think tank. That’s a huge increase from just 35 countries in 2020.
21 Sep 2022
Despite August’s disappointing inflation numbers, the US economy is uniquely equipped to mitigate and overcome the current price surge, owing to its relative energy and food independence, abundance of immigrant labour, strong production capacity, and the capital needed to boost domestic manufacturing
21 Sep 2022
Downturn may send second-largest economy into balance-sheet recession
21 Sep 2022
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