Industry leaders from major financial institutions shared diverging views on the future of settlement cycles during a panel discussion on “T+1 and Beyond: Building the Future of Global Markets” at Sibos 2025, challenging the assumption that faster settlement is always better and exploring how market infrastructure must evolve to meet changing demands.

At Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt, Swift today announced the addition of a blockchain-based shared ledger to its technology infrastructure, a transformative development designed to enable instant, 24/7 cross-border transactions at unprecedented global scale across more than 200 countries and territories.

In an age when financial inclusion and ethical banking alternatives have become as crucial to modern finance as liquidity and capital adequacy, Standard Chartered announced the launch of Islamic Banking current accounts in the UK. This is a strategic expansion of Shariah-compliant services into Western financial centres.

✍️ In this article, TTP Editor-in-Chief Deepesh Patel explores how stablecoins are emerging as a practical tool for treasury, trade finance, and cross-border payments, balancing efficiency and inclusion with regulation, risk, and the future of cbdcs.

Explore whether stablecoins and CBDCs are revolutionary solutions or systemic risks. This article examines their promise in payments and inclusion, alongside regulatory challenges and potential threats to financial stability.

At ICC Austria’s Trade Finance Week, Andrea Hauptmann, founding member and independent international consultant, shared her vast expertise on bank guarantees in an interview with Deepesh Patel, Editor of Trade Treasury Payments.

Supply chains have never been more digitised or more scrutinised. As goods move across road, rail, air, and sea, data too now moves through platforms, portals, systems, and registries. Yet, despite the vast (and quickly growing) amounts of data flows, there is a glaring gap in the ability to confirm exactly who is on the other end.

Here in the TTP A to Z field guide for Sibos Frankfurt: a few hard truths that might just turn the week from a blur into something useful.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has opened a Section 232 investigation into whether imports of robotics and industrial machinery threaten national security. The inquiry, due for publication in the Federal Register on 26 September, forms part of a broader set of probes covering medical equipment, protective gear, and other critical goods.