NEW: Innovation in cross-border payments

The explosive rise in cross-border payments driven by the evolution in e-commerce and new trade corridors has created a new payments landscape characterised by innovations like QR-based payments, FX conversion and multi-currency payments, mobile wallets and account validation. Standard Chartered’s Anand Natarajan and Michael Oskar Kleinsteuber explain the technological and regulatory changes supporting and shaping cross-border payments.

How Siemens and Standard Chartered harnessed blockchain to transform payments

Siemens, a global leading technology company, is using Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to make payments in dollars and euros. Blockchain is typically associated with bitcoin, but treasury teams can use it to make payments in traditional currencies and harness the benefits or real time payments, programmability and tokenization.

AI and transaction banking: workflow maps, data and the human element

AI is set to transform transaction banking staples including cash and liquidity management and trade finance. The best place for treasury to start harnessing the advantages is developing a map of treasury workflows and developing a data strategy, say Standard Chartered’s transaction banking sales team, Executive Director Amy Beninato and Managing Director Karen Hom. They began by discussing the changes AI promises.

MNCs find ways to free trapped cash in their African operations

Marion Reuter, Standard Chartered’s Regional Head of Transaction Banking Sales UK/Europe, and Desiree Pires, Head of Corporate Sales, Markets also in Europe, outline the steps MNCs can take to reduce the risk of trapped cash.

ISO 20022: understanding the use cases for treasury

Standard Chartered’s Richard Stansbury and Sunday Domingo discuss the industry shift to ISO 20022, the possible use cases corporate treasurers should be looking at, and how companies can prepare for the new standard.

Standard Chartered: Tackling working capital challenges with technology

Standard Chartered: Digital assets are not a ‘tomorrow problem’

In the third episode of the Innovation at Standard Chartered podcast, Waqar Chaudry, Executive Director – Innovation, Financing & Securities Services, and Rene Michau, Global Head, Digital Assets, explain why digital assets are a ‘today problem’ that cannot be put off until tomorrow.

Standard Chartered: Effective risk management: time to make volatility a friend

Standard Chartered’s Head of Client Analytics Oksana Pidkuyko explains how companies can navigate today’s heightened risks by developing hedging strategies that turn volatility into a friend rather than a foe.

Standard Chartered: How SC Ventures is powering modern treasury through new business models

By combining banking, technology and innovation, SC Ventures, Standard Chartered’s innovation, investment and ventures arm, is creating new business models that are solving treasury’s most pressing challenges.