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With a little help from my friendsWith Brexit looming large and the need for digital transformation becoming ever more pressing, delegates at this year’s Universwiftnet looked to The Beatles as a theme to inspire the event, concluding that the way forward was to come together – driving collaboration, standardisation and innovation
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ASEAN Digital Trade TransformationAs the Thai chairmanship of ASEAN gets underway for 2019, digitalisation sits firmly at the top of the integration and transformation agenda. Boon-Hiong Chan looks at how this is supporting ASEAN trade, and how the bloc can tackle the fundamental issues of consistent standards, terminologies and interoperability in digital trade transformation.
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Beyond the invoiceSupply chain finance is growing at 20% a year, with around US$2tn in payables available for financing. But how can this be made safer and more sustainable – and accessible to SMEs? flow reports on key themes at BCR’s 4th Supply Chain Finance Summit in Amsterdam
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Delivering Ghana’s infrastructure visionThanks to some transformational lending, Ghana’s Kumasi Market is undergoing a complete makeover, set to transform the Ashanti economy and all it touches. flow tells the story of a project involving three governments, a Brazilian origin contractor and Deutsche Bank’s Structured Trade & Export Finance team
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Power of 10As Thailand takes its turn to chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for 2019 nine years on from its previous incumbency − and more than five decades after its original founding in Bangkok − Deputy Secretary General Aladdin Rillo talks to flow about how ASEAN is making the fourth industrial revolution part of its roadmap to economic integration
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Modernising market infrastructureIn pursuit of a next generation of market infrastructure, the payment industry’s migration to ISO 20022 messaging standards will establish a common language for payments data globally – enabling better reconciliation, faster execution, and access to richer data
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Export finance also proves successful in times of uncertaintyGerman exporters once again achieved record foreign sales in 2018. As uncertainty in the area of exports has risen, the demand for ECA financing and Hermes-covered financing in Germany has increased again, explains Werner Schmidt, Head of Structured Trade & Export Finance Germany from Deutsche Bank
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More firepowerAs customers of Deutsche Bank’s structured commodity financing (STCF) services return for more liquidity, flow highlights key deals from 2018 in a journey from the North Sea to Greater China
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Brexit and the precautionary principleRebecca Harding, independent economist, explains why clarity now is more important than ever in the run-up to the UK leaving the European Union
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Thriving through changeCross-border trade finance growth is increasingly dependent on strong partnerships between banks and fintechs, seamless cross-border payments – and nurturing tomorrow’s experts, agreed delegates and speakers at the BAFT 2019 Bank to bank Forum
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Music to all earsHow did six disadvantaged children end up playing concerts in Boston as members of the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of Hong Kong? Neil Jensen finds out how the Deutsche Bank youth engagement programme is changing lives.
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The other 99%The only way to make the most of what techonology transformation can do is to rethink transactional processes from scratch rather than trying to convert analogue processes to digital ones, says Simon Taylor
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Winding downIt's been a long and winding road for non-performing loans on European bank balance sheets. flow investigates how the last few years have presented some opportunities in the market across Italy and Greece
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Receivables finance revisitedThe demand for receivables finance – as well as other forms of supply chain finance – has substantially risen over the past two to three decades: they reach places, and solve problems, that no other types of finance can.
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Operational efficiency in treasuryTreasury operational models are under scrutiny more than ever before. But how can organisations ensure their processes are optimised for efficiency – and make sure they are not missing out on what evolving technology can do for them? Amy Beninato of Deutsche Bank and Kristy McKay of insurance multinational MAPFRE discuss their tips for success
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Nancy So discusses critical issues facing FIsHow are geopolitical risks, including tightened US monetary policy, idiosyncratic activity in Russia, and rising trade tension between the US and China, affecting business for FIs and their clients in Asia? Nancy So, Head of Institutional Cash Management Sales and Client Management, Asia Pacific, shares her views in The Asian Banker
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