At the ADB Trade & Supply Chain Finance Program Awards, Trade Treasury Payments spoke with Rudolf Putz and Mai Vu of ODDO BHF on how partnerships with multilateral development banks are expanding trade finance capacity in emerging markets, balancing risk, regulation, and growth.

BAFT’s paper shares ten lessons from the global shift to ISO 20022, covering governance, communication, data quality, and collaboration to ensure migration success.

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.

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.

HSBC launched the Global Treasury Pulse Survey today at Sibos 2025. The report highlights how the role of treasurers is shifting from custodians of cash to strategic partners at the centre of corporate transformation.

At a Monday afternoon panel session at Sibos moderated by Sukand Ramachandran, Managing Director and Senior Partner at BCG, the audience heard from Makiko Toyoda, Global Head of the Global Trade Finance Program & Global Supply Chain Finance Program at IFC; Vivek Ramachandran, Head of Global Trade Solutions at HSBC; Yunfei Liu, Deputy General Manager, GlobalTransaction Banking Department at the Bank of China; James Fraser, Global Head of Trade and Working Capital and Head of EMEA Payments at J.P. Morgan; and Enrique Jose Garcia Rico, Global Head of Trade and Working Capital Solutions at Santander Corporate and Investment Bank.

Bank of America has implemented a new generative AI system that transforms how its Global Payments Solutions (GPS) division serves its global base of 40,000 corporate clients. The technology is a fundamental shift in client service capabilities for one of the world’s largest financial institutions.