Trade Treasury Payments (TTP)’s Joy Macknight met with Marie-Laure Gastellu, Global Head of Trade Finance, Societe Generale to discuss embedding ESG and digitisation in trade finance. She pointed to two major challenges: corporate adoption and interoperability — ensuring trust and ownership as the industry transitions from paper to data.

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.

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.

At Sibos 2025, in the “Sustainable finance: Building an interoperable future for green assets, data and risk” panel, industry leaders discussed the complex reality of sustainable finance, offering insights that go beyond simple ideas of green investing to address the detailed infrastructure needed for real market change.

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.

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