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.

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Today, financial services technology demands both innovation and interoperability. To help institutions with this, Finastra is launching the Trade Innovation Nexus integration layer on 30th September at Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt, Germany. The solution will improve the adoption of Finastra’s Trade Innovation software by enhancing interoperability between bank systems and the fintech ecosystem for trade and supply chain finance workflows.

HSBC Asset Management has launched a Trade and Working Capital Solutions strategy, giving institutional investors access to the bank’s extensive trade finance deal flow. This move opens a traditionally bank-dominated market to institutional capital seeking returns tied to real economic activity.

Wilkommen nach Frankfurt! We are so excited to launch this latest edition of TTP from Sibos. This is the first Sibos for the TTP team, but were not strangers to the show. We’re so excited to be back, in fact, the entire editorial team is here in Frankfurt.

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.

Trade Treasury Payments (TTP)’s Joy Macknight spoke to Claire about one of the hottest topics at Sibos right now, AI and stablecoins. She also mentioned cross-border payment challenges.

🔥 #hottopicsofsibos, with Trade Treasury Payments (TTP)’s Joy Macknight featuring Sofia Hammoucha, Global Head of Trade and Working Capital at Standard Chartered.

TTP spoke to her about how banks and corporates cope with the uncertainty in global trade relations and the meaning of this year’s Sibos theme “The next frontiers in global finance”.