Corporate treasury departments are implementing adjustments to their supply chains that will have long-term ramifications for businesses, economies and the trade finance industry across Asia.
A preference for size and reliable service is playing to the strengths of the world’s biggest asset managers, like Allianz Global Investors, which earned the title of 2022 Overall Quality Leader in Overall Intermediary Distribution in both Asia and Europe.
The pool of commissions paid by institutional investors for U.S. equity trades declined from Q1 2021 to Q1 2022, returning to the long-term contraction trend that has driven these payments to historic lows and resuming pressure on an important source of brokerage revenues.
High levels of turnover in bank staff—particularly among relationship managers—appear to be eroding perceptions of the quality of service banks are delivering to some small businesses and middle market companies.
At the top of the corporate banking market in India, the country’s three biggest private sector banks have in aggregate, matched State Bank of India in terms of market penetration with large and middle-market Indian companies.
Facing economic pressures and increasingly complex markets, growing numbers of investment managers in the U.S. are open to the idea of outsourcing some or even all of their trading function.
Eight out of 10 commercial and corporate executives are using a nonbank or fintech provider for payments, and that share is poised to grow as companies around the world look to minimize costs and maximize efficiency, convenience and functionality.