Top trade finance trends to watch in 2024
23-11-2023 | These top trade finance trends for 2024 are expected to redefine the way businesses conduct cross-border transactions and navigate the complexities of the global marketplace.
Blockchain interoperability solutions and challenges: Where are we now?
16-11-2023 | Blockchain technology has gained significant attention in recent years
Blockchain and the scalability challenge: solving the blockchain trilemma
17-10-2023 | Today, one of the major challenges associated with blockchain is scalability.
BlackRock spot Bitcoin ETF application: a rocky way towards approval
26-09-2023 | BlackRock, the world largest asset manager, last June has applied at the SEC for a spot Bitcoin ETF for its American clients.
Blockchain and Web3.0: A great Marriage
28-08-2023 | An interesting occurrence that is getting growing attention is the gradual shift towards the third phase in the internet’s development journey, named Web3.0
Swift blockchain interoperability experimentation
31-07-2023 | Early June SWIFT, the largest interbank messaging system in the world, announced it would conduct experiments in collaboration with a number of financial institutions to test for blockchain interoperability.
Sustainable Finance | What , Why, and the Difference with ESG
24-07-2023 | In this blog by Anastasia, she discusses the nuances between sustainable finance and ESG, two concepts that are often used interchangeably but have distinct meanings.
2nd Annual Stress Testing for Financial Institutions
19-07-2023 | Implement best practices within regulatory, climate and internal stress testing, adapt to macroeconomic conditions, and effectively manage and utilise data to build a best-in-class stress testing framework
10th Annual Credit Risk Management, Modelling and Validation
04-07-2023 | Develop, test and utilise credit risk frameworks and models incorporating Basel IV, IFRS9, IRB, climate risk and stress testing standards
What is ESG? A Corporate Perspective
29-06-2023 | ESG from a corporate perspective is an abbreviation for environmental, social and governance. Governance addresses the way corporations are being led. E.g. are the interests of corporate stakeholders aligned with those of management? How is risk management being done? How are executives being remunerated?