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What's the best role treasury can play in trade?
Both treasury and trade finance functions are on the front line of balancing risk management and growth. Get it wrong and you're facing funding shortfalls, regulatory breaches, delayed shipments and unexpected losses. So, how do we get it right? And what risks should we be looking ahead to in the near to medium-term.
In this special episode of Trade Links Tim Phillips speaks to Naresh Aggarwal (Associate Director Policy & Technical at the Association of Corporate Treasurers) and Rowan Austin (Head of Trade Finance Origination & Advisory at NatWest) who share their views, as well as make some predictions for what businesses might be overlooking.
What is Model Context Protocol (or MCP) – and more importantly, why should you care?
Think of MCP as a translation layer that links AI and the large language models that underpin them, with a wider range of digital services.
Read our article to learn more about how MCP could bridge the gap between AI and payments data – and the capabilities this could unlock for businesses.
Five takeaways from the EU-US trade deal
Since the EU-US trade deal was announced, we’ve had time to analyse the finer details. Here are five major points businesses and markets need to know:
Lee McNabb, Head of Group Payment Strategy, believes it will – if implemented effectively.
In this article he outlines how Digital Identity is increasingly seen as key infrastructure for security, trust, and inclusion in a digital world, while noting there are still challenges to address.
Banking open for all
Head of Group Payment Strategy, Lee McNabb, tells the readers of Interface how a customer-centric vision and a culture of innovation puts the bank at the heart of the Open Banking revolution.
Inside NatWest’s cloud strategy to modernise for real-time payments
Watch the PYMNTS roundtable in which Ian Povey, CIO Payments Technology at NatWest, and Nilesh Dusane, Global Head of Institutional Payments at AWS, discuss how NatWest is on its payments modernisation journey with AWS, shifting from legacy systems to cloud-native re-architecture for instant payments.
The future of open finance: impacts of new regulation, use cases, & business models
Simon Eacott, Head of Payments at NatWest, speaks at EBAday 2025 in Paris about the future of Open Finance and the impacts of new regulation, use cases, and business models. He shares how much the switch to an expanded open finance ecosystem will enable growth, and whether the industry is prepared for the potential changes.
Discover ISO 20022 with Ray Zabarte
Watch this short interview with our ISO Business Lead Ray Zabarte as he explains what ISO 20022 means for you – faster, smarter, and more secure transactions.