Weekly Brief Nov 11 Canada launches 24/7 payment rail, Lloyds and BRAC digitise trade documents Transaction Finance Weekly: Payments Canada launches 24/7 payments infrastructure as Lloyds and BRAC Bank reduce trade-document processing to one day.... 319
Weekly Brief Nov 03 IFC and Citi expand trade finance for emerging markets, Hong Kong advances 24/7 tokenised settlement Transaction Finance Weekly: Public guarantees widen trade finance access, while tokenised settlement and on-chain funds make corporate cash available ... 1311
Weekly Brief Oct 27 HSBC launches RedCoin, JP Morgan and ADB expand India working-capital support Transaction Finance Weekly: Hong Kong stablecoins gain a major bank’s payment network, while recipient verification and shared settlement arrangemen... 1406
Weekly Brief Oct 20 Spanish banks extend blockchain into syndicated loan administration, Visa launches stablecoin prefunding Transaction Finance Weekly: Santander and BBVA administer a syndicated loan on blockchain as Visa takes stablecoin prefunding live and Japan’s three... 1670
Weekly Brief Oct 14 Singapore Gulf Bank expands round-the-clock USD transfers through BNY Transaction Finance Weekly: Singapore Gulf Bank joins BNY’s 24/7 dollar transfers, OCBC and Ant International tokenise deposits and Citi funds IndiG... 3378
Weekly Brief Oct 07 Always-on payments and embedded banking expand into corporate and institutional workflows Transaction Finance Weekly: Citi and Lloyds take cross-border payments beyond banking hours as HSBC and BMO move banking into client systems and IFC b... 2476
Awards Ceremonies Oct 01 Mark Monaco recognised as Global Transaction Finance Leader of the Year for Bank of America’s payments transformation Mark Monaco leads Bank of America’s global payments and transaction banking transformation through technology, innovation and a long-term focus on c... 1460
Weekly Brief Sep 30 Swift plans cross-border payments by phone number and email Transaction Finance Weekly: Swift's pay-by-alias framework, FedNow's cross-border leg, BNY's Pay-to-Wallet and JP Morgan-Thunes expand cross-border pa... 2429
Research Notes Sep 25 Can digital trade move from paperless processes to interoperable infrastructure? Trade finance is entering a new infrastructure phase as banks move from digitising documents toward connected environments where electronic records, s... 447
Research Notes Sep 24 Cash management moves beyond portals as receivables automation remains uneven Cash management is moving beyond online banking portals and becoming embedded in companies’ own treasury and accounting systems. Bank submissions sh... 406
Weekly Brief Sep 23 Partior and LSEG target prefunded nostro dependence in cross-border settlement Transaction Finance Weekly: The Eurosystem launched Pontes for tokenised asset settlement, Partior and LSEG DiSH built a multi-bank liquidity framewor... 1201
Weekly Brief Sep 15 DBS, OCBC and UOB complete first live tokenised SGD transactions using Swift ledger Transaction Finance Weekly: DBS, OCBC and UOB complete Swift's first live SGD tokenised-deposit settlement, Lloyds-SocGen digitise a letter of credit ... 3255
Weekly Brief Sep 08 Tokenised payments enter live treasury use as correspondent controls face scrutiny Transaction Finance Weekly: Citi and HSBC advance Swift-ledger payments, OFSI fines Citi and ByteDance secures a $29.6 billion loan.... 1444
Weekly Brief Sep 01 UOB and HSBC complete live tokenised deposit transactions, RBC unifies transaction banking Transaction Finance Weekly: UOB and HSBC complete tokenised deposit transactions, RBC unifies transaction banking and TD tests Agorá.... 1314
Weekly Brief Aug 25 Standard Chartered and HSBC complete first tokenised deposit transaction, Citi launches near-real-time custody solutions Transaction Finance Weekly: Standard Chartered and HSBC complete the first live cross-border transaction using tokenised deposits on Swift’s blockch... 1777
Weekly Brief Aug 18 Citi joins $4.6 billion Japan-US financing, China expands corporate cash pooling Transaction Finance Weekly: Citi backs $4.6 billion Japan-US power deal, China expands RMB cash pooling and South Korea commits KRW 5 trillion to semi... 2369
