The World Bank Group’s private sector arm, IFC, has completed its first global securitisation of emerging market loans, a $510 million collateralised loan obligation (CLO) listed in London.

HSBC has launched its On Demand Cash Concentration Solution through its Global Liquidity Solutions (GLS) platform, providing corporate treasurers the ability to mobilise funds across more than 50 markets worldwide with unprecedented timing control.

At Sibos 2025, Deutsche Börse and Circle Internet have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to integrate stablecoins into the European market infrastructure. This is the first partnership between a European market infrastructure provider and a global stablecoin issuer.

To be clear: factoring and supply chain finance (SCF, or reverse factoring) are not inherently problematic. Indeed, they are indispensable instruments of global commerce. From Mittelstand manufacturers in Germany to electronics exporters in Shenzhen, companies rely on these techniques to smooth cash flow, fund working capital, and underpin domestic and cross-border trade.

Today, global trade faces high volatility and regulatory scrutiny. To help institutions navigate these challenges, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Trade Register serves as the foundation of risk assessment.

Trade Treasury Payments (TTP)’s Joy Macknight spoke with Wim Grosemans, Global Head of Product Management – Payments and Receivables at BNP Paribas, about how banks can move beyond compliance to use ISO 20022 as a catalyst to turbocharge their payments business — and what true strategic collaboration in payments innovation really looks like.

Chainlink launched a groundbreaking technical solution that enables financial institutions worldwide to manage tokenised fund workflows directly through their existing Swift messaging infrastructure at Sibos Frankfurt. 

In the world of financial technology, few domains have experienced such a fundamental transformation as global payments. At Sibos 2025, Umar Farooq, Global Co-Head of J.P. Morgan Payments, offered insights into how the world’s largest payments business navigates this complex terrain during a wide-ranging conversation with Aisha Gani of Bloomberg News in the “Inside Leadership” session.

In a wide-ranging conversation at Sibos 2025 that touched on everything from digital currencies to cybersecurity threats, State Bank of India (SBI) Chairperson Challa Sreenivasulu Setty offered insights into how India’s largest bank is navigating the rapidly evolving financial technology landscape while maintaining customer trust at its core in the session “View from the Top” in conversation with Megha Kansal of McKinsey & Company.