Outside of core day-to-day functions Indian corporate treasury departments rank “digitization” and “technology upgrades” as their top priorities for the year ahead.
Stablecoins, like Facebook’s recently announced Libra, have the potential to surpass better-known cryptocurrencies and achieve mainstream use in financial markets and throughout the economy.
Asian institutional assets, which traditionally have been concentrated in the portfolios of a relative handful of behemoths, are spreading to a broader universe of institutions.
As they attempt to rid their balance sheets of huge volumes of non-performing assets, India’s public sector (PSU) banks are losing valuable lead banking relationships with the country’s largest companies.
Unbundling and other trends playing out in global equity markets have freed up U.S. buy-side traders to exercise more discretion over their order flow.
Distributed ledger technology (DLT) will have a profound effect on clearing and settlement, but taken too far, it might actually turn the clock backward and reintroduce problems financial markets have been working to alleviate for more than 500 years.
According to new Greenwich Associates data, firms are shifting their focus to security tokens – digital securities recorded on a blockchain and issued in full compliance with the securities regulations in the jurisdiction in which they are offered.