The global securities and investment landscape is rapidly being reshaped. Among the challenging market conditions of recent years, institutional investors have turned to resilience-building as their central driver of growth. “The way our clients seek to build resilience varies across businesses, segments, and markets,” says Ee Fong Soh, Group Head of Financial Institutions, Securities & Fiduciary Services, Global Transaction Services, DBS Bank. “Yet we see a common dual objective across the board: the pursuit…

HIG Capital has added Tim Hsu and Chris Todisco to its Capital Formation Group as managing directors, placing each in a distinct geography to lead credit fundraising with institutional investors across the U.S. The appointments were announced Aug. 17. Hsu will be based in San Francisco, focused on West Coast institutions. He comes to HIG…

Import businesses have felt the impact as rerouted cargo vessels clog unprepared African ports, tying up inventory. Asset-light corporations are becoming asset-heavier organizations as the on-again, off-again closure of the Strait of Hormuz continues to disrupt global supply chains. During the 30 days preceding Aug. 17, an average of 16.9 ships passed through the Strait…

For most organizations, the process that binds together a purchase request and a final payment is sitting quietly in the background until something breaks down, such as a supplier submitting an invoice while there’s no purchase order for it.  Procure-to-pay covers everything that happens in-between a purchase request and a payment, such as requests, approvals,…