Across the globe, cities are growing at an unprecedented rate and are now home to the majority of the world’s population. By 2050, it’s estimated that two out of three people worldwide will live in cities.

Various programmes designed to facilitate foreign investment have boosted financial market reform in China, and the internationalization of the renminbi. As bond market liberalization nears completion and the onshore stock market opens up to foreign ownership, corporate and investor interest in the Chinese currency is picking up.

A huge amount of progress has been achieved in recent times in the field of rapid, even almost instant, payments. Few would argue with that assertion. Intraday transfers between domestic retail and corporate accounts have become entrenched to the point where even technophobic customers have embraced them.

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Like its domestic peers, the UAE’s oldest lender is branching out into new markets, using digital innovation to boost profits and cut costs.

Accessing restricted FX markets can be a considerable challenge for corporates and investors. Many markets still require local institutions to support trades despite an increasingly globalised world. After a year of trade tensions and rising geopolitical uncertainty, this is unlikely to change any time soon.

In an increasingly interconnected financial realm, multinational businesses need a cash management partner that has global reach as well as best-in-class services. Bank of China offers a five-star service that is unrivalled in its expertise and international connections.

The world’s energy companies are recasting their activities not only to reduce their carbon emissions but also to diversify into forms of energy that don’t produce emissions at all.

CMB’s investment in technology signals a focus on the future

As technology continues to drive huge change in financial markets, do banks need to think differently about thinking differently?

Localization is key for OCBC Bank as it supports Asian clients who want to venture further afield.

In this podcast episode Euromoney will examine what the energy industry can learn from the Ørsted story.

The days of ‘pay and pray’ are over. A new normal of fast, transparent international payments has begun as companies around the world embrace SWIFT’s global payments innovation (gpi).

Having established the efficacy of the service, the focus of Swift global payment initiative (gpi) has moved to how its full value can be passed on to corporate clients. Wim Grosemans, global head of product management for payments and receivables at BNP Paribas, and Marc Delbaere, Swift’s global head of corporates and trade, explain how this is being achieved.

Technology is allowing banks to respond to customer requests with increasing precision, despite rising expectations and pressures on time ‒ but excellent service demands something more.

Heads or tails? The ‘either/or’ idea sits at the heart of everything from binary computers to Monte Carlo risk simulations, but in the world of quantum computing it’s heads AND tails ‒ and everything in between.

Bank of China successfully launched a SWIFT direct connection business for Otis Electric Elevator Co. Ltd.

Ayala Land, the Philippines’ leading property developer, has swept the board in the 15th annual Euromoney survey of the global real estate markets.