Barclays and Ant International, an affiliate company of Alibaba Group, have entered into a strategic partnership to modernise global treasury operations through artificial intelligence. 

HSBC has launched a new extension of its digital financing platform, TradePay, aimed at simplifying import duty payments for US corporates. The solution enables companies to optimise working capital by… read more →

Mastercard has announced a $300 million minority investment in the cross-border business of Corpay, a payments company.

VoPay has announced the launch of its cross-border payments-as-a-service solution, enabling global transactions across 140+ countries without infrastructure investment. 

Let’s face it — all good things must come to an end. In an era of automation, many familiar roles, products, and services have ridden off into the sunset. The… read more →

Emirates NBD, a banking group that serves the Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye, has partnered with Kinexys by J.P. Morgan to join the Kinexys Liink network, a blockchain-powered platform designed for international payment flows.

The framework that once held global trade together no longer fits the reality it’s supposed to support. The assumptions that underpinned multilateralism have thinned. Policy shifts once considered unthinkable now… read more →

Standard Chartered, a bank, has today released a new whitepaper exploring the adoption of ISO 20022 XML to support corporates and financial institutions with their adoption of the new standard.… read more →

Trade banks today are faced with a whirlwind of new changes and challenges. From tariffs and trade wars to digitalisation and data migrations, it can be a difficult space to operate in.