There are some 40 countries in the Asia-Pacific region ranging from some of the poorest to rich countries like Japan and New Zealand. There is also a major difference between the countries' cash…
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In assisting clients with their tax preparation and compliance obligations, the use of tax technology by PwC will help to improve efficiency, accuracy and reduce risk in tax compliance. China's changing tax environm
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At the recent Cash Management University in Paris, BNP Paribas explained how there are now five ways to release trapped cash in China:
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In a session at NACHA's 2012 Global Payments Strategies Conference, Alfred Nader, vice president, corporate strategy and development at Western Union Business Solutions, urged corporates to trade in renminbi with th
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Standard Chartered Bank has announced the launch of an Islamic version of its on-line banking platform, Straight2Bank. The enhanced platform expands client access to the Bank's Islamic products by
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The increasing risk from the rise of the non-banks as a source of finance in China is reviewed in this article in the Financial Times.
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FIS has made the first renminbi (RMB)-denominated forward freight agreement (FFA) trade
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Standard Chartered Bank (China) Limited first foreign bank for a RMB denominated loan quota
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Although there has been a move to other currencies in the past 10 years, much of the Asia-Pacific's trade, including intra-regional flows, is still invoiced, and settled in USD. And some are settled in EUR.
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Standard Chartered today announced the launch of the Standard Chartered Renminbi Globalisation Index (RGI) – the first industry benchmark that effectively tracks the progress of Renminbi-based business activity worl
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Citi announced today that it was further extending its US Dollar Express Wire for Asia services by launching Express Wire India Desk. The new service helps streamline the execution of US Dollar payments by sending t
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Designed and developed to help corporate clients address the challenge of forecasting past short-term maturities (i.e. past seven days), the fully-automated Unitized Time Deposit investment solution allows funds to
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JP Morgan Treasury Services today announced a range of enhancements to its U.S. Dollar Clearing – Asia Direct solution, the reach of the solution has expanded four-fold.
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Citi China announced today the launch of its commercial cards programme in China by its Citi Transaction Services division, making it the first global bank to offer such capabilities to its large corporate and multi
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The infrastructure for mobile payments is growing world-wide. The latest example is where the Japanese wireless operator NTT DoCoMo and South Korean peer KT Corporation have agreed plans to enable their customers to
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SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 10,000 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in 212 countries and territories, today announced that a new Asia Pacific corporate
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Standard Chartered Bank today announced that it was rolling out a series of cash management enhancements that significantly improves the ability to manage working capital. Tehey are designed to deliver increased vis
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Trading systems monitoring and risk management leader Corvil today announced the availability of a monitoring solution aimed at the FX and Equities markets in Asia.
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Standard Chartered Bank today announced that it had launched an integrated direct and regional custody platform for its investor and intermediary clients to capture growth opportunities in the fast-growing markets a
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JP Morgan Treasury Services has expanded its global escrow services to Vietnam, providing clients with an additional risk management solution across financial transactions.
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ANZ is preparing to launch an iOS app that will enable corporate customers to manage their Australian and New Zealand cash management activities on the go.
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In July 2012, the RMB moved up one position to #15 most-used payments currency with a market share of 0.45% (versus 0.43% in June 2012).
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J.P. Morgan has executed Hong Kong's first HKD tri-party repo transaction between Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited ( and Barclays Bank plc, the first such trade following the launch of the Hong Kong Monetary Author
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Vantage FX is the first, and only Australian regulated financial services firm offering the completely new MT5 trading software in a live trading environment.
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The partners - Thomson Reuters, GFI Group and SDIC Trust - feel that they meet the prerequisites required to obtain an application for a licence and are preparing to file with regulators for the Beijing-based JV.
