October 2021 9 Min Read
Money market funds are once again in the cross hairs of regulators in the US and Europe following a brief liquidity crunch in March 2020. Sebastian Ramos, Executive Vice President, Global Trading and Products, ICD, discusses the risks that over-zealous reforms could...
October 2021 25:12
In the final instalment of HSBC’s Sibos Spotlight, Eleanor Hill (TMI) invites Nadine Lagarmitte and Suraj Kalati (HSBC) to consider how corporates’ attitudes to ESG are changing, including a growing interest in ESG investment. Our guests explain the...
September 2021 16:24
In the third edition of HSBC’s Sibos Spotlight Podcast series, TMI’s Eleanor Hill invites Farnam Bidgoli (HSBC) to provide an in-depth overview of the current ESG landscape, so that treasurers can build a credible sustainability strategy. Amongst an excess...
September 2021 5 Min Read
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has been touted as the supercharger of Africa’s long-term economic success. Here, Bohani Hlungwane, Group Head of Sales, Trade and Working Capital, Absa, looks back at the journey so far, and assesses what still...
September 2021 6 Min Read
When we think about a health crisis, we don’t naturally assume banking will change as a result. Nevertheless, the Covid-19 pandemic has triggered positive change within the financial services industry, as recent research by Banking Circle illustrates. When the first...
September 2021 25:48
The first edition of HSBC’s Sibos Spotlight series sees TMI’s Eleanor Hill joined by Mark Williamson and James Pomeroy (HSBC) to discuss the hot topic of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). Our guests discuss the reaction from different central banks to the...
August 2021 12 Min Read
Yield has been an issue for the short-term cash investments of treasurers, as poor rates and tightening regulation have dramatically lowered the performance ceiling of traditional investment instruments. A recent TMI and Northern Trust Asset Management webinar...
August 2021 7 Min Read
Bank of America’s recently formed EMEA ESG Strategic Council has a number of important goals in its sights. TMI talks to the council’s leaders about how it will deliver and what it means for stakeholders. With a stated intention of becoming net zero by 2030, the...
July 2021 43:05
In this podcast, Cornelia Hesse (EACT/ VDT) speaks to Noëlle Belmimoun (ArcelotMittal/ AFTE), Patrick Holemans (SWIFT), Séverine Le Blévennec (Aliaxis), Tarek Tranberg (EACT) and Stephan Wolf (GLEIF) about how treasurers can streamline customer-reference data and...
June 2021 9 Min Read
The end date for LIBOR is just months away. For those treasurers who haven’t acted already, now is the time to identify LIBOR exposures, have a contingency plan for accidental oversights, and understand the different challenges presented by the new market risk-free...
June 2021 23 Min Read
Introduction Conor MaherHead of Transaction Banking Products, NatWest Moving beyond the Covid catalyst For many corporate treasurers, 2020 was a crash course in digital transformation. As companies adjusted to global lockdown and remote working as a result of the...
May 2021 5 Min Read
When the first ever government-backed, sharia-compliant, gold-based financial infrastructure was launched in Indonesia this month, it signalled new ways of thinking about corporate payments and yield generation. TMI decided to find out more. Payments systems come and...
