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- In a webinar hosted by The Economist as part of its Global Treasury Leaders programme and supported by Deutsche Bank, two corporate treasurers shared on the special challenges that the region presents when setting up an in-house bank. flow reports
- The Central business district of Hong Kong. Stock exchange operators in the city and Singapore are hoping to jump on the SPAC bandwagon, and regulators are considering rewriting their listing rules to allow blank-cheque companies on their bourses. Photo: AFP
Chinese banks’ stockpile of foreign-currency deposits has surpassed $1 trillion for the first time, creating an opportunity for Beijing to allow greater freedom for capital to flow out of the country.
The pool has been growing as surging demand for Chinese goods during the pandemic has beefed up foreign earnings of exporters, while the resilient economy and strengthening currency have lured overseas investors to sell dollars for yuan to buy Chinese stocks and bonds. Bank deposits in foreign currencies jumped more than $260 billion in the year through May, the most in data starting in 2002.
By Siddharth Chandani and Mobasher Zein Kazmi
As trials move into actual implementations, global financial markets and monetary systems will be disrupted and transformed
Innovation in payment services and the rise of e-commerce platforms have dramatically altered how consumers, merchants and financial intermediaries engage with one another. Coupled with the entry of new market participants, a radical redesign of payment infrastructure and mechanism is underway. Similarly, means of payment are also evolving where money, which for the most part consisted of minted coins and currency notes represented on centralised electronic ledger systems, is now on the cusp of being altered by new forms of decentralised digital currencies.
Prospects of digital currencies centred on speed, transaction cost and trust
A digital currency is essentially an electronic medium of exchange conducted through designated computer networks or platforms. Arguably, digital...
- Sameer Goel of Deutsche Bank talks about the fundamentals behind the strengthening of the yuan, and how its continued rise depends the "self-feeding" dynamic between the yuan and the U.S. dollar.
Illustration: Chaitanya Dinesh Surpur
When you think of Ghaziabad, you might think of old bylanes, industrial activity and one of the most populous cities of Uttar Pradesh. What you might not think of is green bonds. But this April, the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC) became India’s first municipal corporation to raise ?150 crore by issuing a green bond in the domestic market. GMC will construct a tertiary sewage treatment plant with this capital, which it raised at a coupon of 8.1 percent on a 10-year note, and listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange. Far from Ghaziabad, at the Mumbai headquarters of billionaire Sajjan Jindal’s JSW Energy, the top management had been working for months to launch its debut green bond issue in the overseas market. It hired Deutsche Bank late last year as the left-lead and structuring agent to raise money against its hydro power assets. After all, the investment bank had previously worked on six fund raising...- It’s going to be three-speed. We’re going to have Asia-Pacific with its big driving economies like India and China which are going to move — India at 10% and China which is using the brakes a little, could grow by 10% though it may be lower
Cyberthreats are an ever-present threat to the integrity of financial institutions (FIs) and the trust in the economy and society. As we enter a new era with growing digital assets using cryptocurrencies, FIs are heavily focussed on assessing the risks and defensive mechanisms against cyberthreats on this new asset class.
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