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Regulators had high hopes when China’s free trade zone bond market was launched last year, but there are now doubts about the market’s future.

SoFi had plenty of options, so its choice of a Spac validates that structure for listing and raising capital. Can it now challenge the biggest US banks?

Treasurers have relied on traditional skills to navigate the circumstances they have faced over the past nine months. Changes forced by the pandemic will impact the way they, and their entire organizations, work in the future.

Sustainable finance is no longer just a virtue-signalling additional option to have in the corporate toolbox. It is a core part of a broader purpose, says Societe Generale’s Alexandre Maymat, head of global transaction and payment services.

One impact of the pandemic in Asia is that it is going to make for a radically different Chinese New Year.

Capital is already shifting out of the UK and people will follow, leaving the big Brexit question: can the EU take advantage to complete its capital markets union?

We asked corporate treasury officials across Asia to rank their banking partners for quality of execution capabilities and quality of relationship in six key business areas: capital markets, cash management, credit, rates, foreign exchange and trade finance, creating a total of 12 categories in each market covered. The rankings published here are overall results based on the banks with the highest number of first-placed rankings in each market; in the event of a tie, the number of second-placed rankings determines the winner, then the number of third-place rankings, and so on. We received more than 1,500 votes from Asian corporates during the survey period.

The region’s affluent classes are well served by traditional banks. But fintech firms hope to gain a foothold in financial services through customers that have been left behind.

Gone are the days when banks could coast along on processing letters of credit and servicing clients’ occasional foreign exchange transactions. To meet the increasingly complex needs of their corporate clients, the top Asian banks have had to rethink their service models.

Timberland investor New Forests is encouraging Singapore to become Asia’s hub for impact investing, while solving the region’s annual pollution problem.

Investors ate up China’s dim sum bonds and snacked on India’s masala notes. Could a taste of Indonesia’s nasi goreng bonds be the next thing to satiate emerging market investors’ appetite?

The founder of Ant Financial disappeared for three months after Chinese regulators nixed the firm’s record-breaking IPO. Despite some unwise comments about state banks, Jack Ma is now back, looking as puckish and cheery as ever.