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Trade Finance

Vietnam's new war front

By Rodney Diola


The last ten years have been a rollercoaster ride for Vietnam in its quest to embrace the capitalist market. Its baptism by fire continues, with the government now engaged in a struggle to contain an inflation spiral that threatens to get out of hand and has precipitated a crisis of confidence in its once promising markets

Trade Finance

Structured Trade Finance

By The Asset Editorial Team

The structured finance business is one of the strongest growth areas in transaction banking. Customers are constantly looking for solutions that effectively address the specific situations they are in, and explore the possibility of a sweet-spot that includes not only tax breaks but also concessional terms in financing, or exemption from certain outdated restrictions in their trading activities. For now, very few institutions in the region have developed the skills to engage their customers in structuring creative solutions.

Trade Finance

Most Innovative Trade Finance Solution

By The Asset Editorial Team

Who said that economics and energy conservation cannot go hand-in-hand? In a perfect display of how preserving the environment could translate into significant revenue dollars, HSBC undertook the world's first carbon credit prepayment deal. This US$ 48 million prepayment financing structure for Noble Group has been chosen as the trade finance deal of the year as much for the groundbreaking structure of the deal as for the pioneering efforts made by HSBC towards enabling a lower carbon economy.

Trade Finance

A structured approach to financing woes

By Mridula Sudarshan

Speak to anybody with any experience in the financial markets and they will tell you that these are challenging times. In fact, you don't have to go that far. Anyone on the street can tell you tha.....