Smart Rails: The Case for a Hybrid Cross-border Payments Model
Banco Central do Brasil recently banned fintech and payment providers from settling overseas payments in stablecoins or crypto. Despite this localised development, stablecoin cross border payment use cases could still be a game changer for treasury teams. Jovi Overo, CEO, ONE.io, makes the argument for balancing regulatory fragmentation with operational efficiency.
Is Fiat Still the Backbone of Global Finance?
Mahesh Kini, Global Head of Cash Management, Standard Chartered, explores how fiat has evolved, why it remains strategically central, how blockchain-based rails fit alongside it, and why orchestration across both is becoming a defining capability for treasury today. The global financial system is undergoing one of its most consequential periods of change. Blockchain-based settlement models, […]
Realigning Trade for Future Growth
A Tale of New Corridors, Technologies, and Connections How can treasurers manage the impact of continuing uncertainty and re-alignment in the trade space? Barclays’ Jaya Vohra, Global Head of Trade and Working Capital, and Michaël Hache, Head of Trade Finance, Export Finance, Working Capital, France & Benelux, investigate the options and opportunities. “I think most […]
