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Banking in India: Relationships & Technology

Report date: 
16 Dec 2025

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The new CompleXCountries report on Banking in India: Relationships & Technology has now been published. The report is based on a detailed peer discussion between senior corporate treasury professionals from Europe and Asia in which they shared and compared their experiences with their relationship banking partners in India with a focus on how the Indian Government's digitisation initiatives are being experienced.

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The report covers practical experiences with:

  • Digitalisation
  • Bank Relationships - pricing & performance
  • Global Banks
  • Indian Banks
  • Bank portals & services
  • Bank guarantees
  • FX
  • FX Hedging
  • Tax & Customs payments
  • Funding 
  • Cards / T&E

The banks discussed in the full report include: JP Morgan, DBS, Citi, HSBC, BNP Paribas, Standard Chartered, Barclays, ICICI, HDFC, Kotak Mahindra Bank and State Bank of India

Topics covered in this report: 
Bank Relationships, guarantees, FX, Hedging FX, Funding, GiftCity, T&E Management, Cards, Tax, Customs, Dividends, Royalties, Cash Repatriation
Service providers discussed in this report: 
ICICI, JP Morgan, Barclays, HSBC, Citi, DBS, BNP Paribas, Standard Chartered, HDFC, Kotak Mahindra Bank, State Bank of India, FBIL

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Corporate Treasury & Banking in Israel

Report date: 
3 Dec 2025

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The new CompleXCountries report on Banking and Corporate Treasury in Israel has now been published and is available to subscribers or can be purchased individually. The report is based on a detailed peer discussion between senior corporate treasury professionals from Europe, the Middle East and Asia in which they shared and compared their approach and experiences with managing their corporate treasury in Israel and compared experiences with different banking partners.

The report includes:

  • Integration with global treasury structures
  • Banking relationships - local & global banks
  • Language and system challenges
  • Withholding tax challenges
  • Local organisational structures
  • Cash pooling practices, domestic, cross border (physical and notional).
  • Local payments & collections
  • Funding
  • Contingency planning

Service providers discussed in this report include: HSBC, Citi, Bank Mendes Gans, Bank Leumi, Bank Hapoalim and  Mercantile.

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Topics covered in this report: 
Bank Relationships, Cash Pooling - cross border, Cash Pooling - domestic, Notional Pooling, Funding, withholding tax, Payments - domestic, Payments - cross border, Business continuity
Service providers discussed in this report: 
HSBC, Bank Mendes Gans, Citi, Bank Leumi

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Corporate Treasury, FX & Bank Relationships in Egypt

Report date: 
24 Nov 2025

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  • Foreign exchange regulations and practices
  • Use and management of Letters of Credit (LCs)
  • FX availability 
  • Methods of managing foreign currency flows
  • Payment terms in the market
  • Funding structures and intercompany financing
  • Cash management and liquidity
  • Exchange-rate exposure and losses
  • Corporate legal structures in Egypt
  • Local vs. imported manufacturing setups
  • Bank relationships and banking landscape
  • Geopolitical context and external investments
  • Overall business environment and operating conditions

Service providers discussed  in the full report: HSBC, Citi, Standard Chartered

 

Topics covered in this report: 
Bank Relationships, Hedging FX, FX, Cash Pooling - cross border, Cash Pooling - domestic, Funding, Investments, Letters of Credit (LC)
Service providers discussed in this report: 
Citi, HSBC, Standard Chartered

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Corporate Treasury: Approaches to Cash Pooling

Report date: 
17 Sep 2025

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Topics covered in this report: 
Cash Pooling - cross border, Cash Pooling - domestic, Zero balance accounts, in-house bank, withholding tax, Tax, Notional Pooling, Virtual accounts, POBO/ROBO, Target Balance Account
Service providers discussed in this report: 
Bank Mendes Gans, BNP Paribas, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Citi, Bank of America, MUFG, Standard Chartered, Commerzbank, PNC, Bank of Montreal

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Banking & Cash Management Challenges in South East Asia

Report date: 
10 Jul 2025

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Topics covered in this report: 
ASEAN, Bank Relationships, Cash Pooling - cross border, Cash Pooling - domestic, Trapped cash, KYC, Cash Repatriation, FX, Regional Treasury Centre, Regulatory relationships
Service providers discussed in this report: 
JP Morgan, DBS, Standard Chartered, Deutsche Bank, Citi, HSBC, Bank Ayudhya (MUFG), MUFG, Mizuho, Bank of America, Bank of PhilippineIslands, Bank Negara Malaysia, Bangkok Bank, Kyriba, Starfish Digital

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Banking & Cash Management in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates

Report date: 
18 Jun 2025

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Topics covered in this report: 
Bank Accounts, Bank Relationships, Cash - deposits, Cash Pooling - cross border, Cash Pooling - domestic, Cash Repatriation, Local ownership
Service providers discussed in this report: 
JP Morgan, BNP Paribas, HSBC, Standard Chartered, Bank of America

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User Experiences with Virtual Bank Accounts

Report date: 
20 May 2025

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Topics covered in this report: 
Virtual accounts, POBO/ROBO, COBO, in-house bank, Cash Pooling - cross border, Cash Pooling - domestic, payroll
Service providers discussed in this report: 
BNP Paribas, Citi, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Barclays, HSBC, FIS, Coupa, Blackline, SAP, Deutsche Bank

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Bank Relationships & Cash Management in China

Report date: 
7 May 2025

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Topics covered in this report: 
Cash Pooling - cross border, Cash Pooling - domestic, Bank Relationships, Bankers Acceptance Drafts, Money Market Funds, Investments
Service providers discussed in this report: 
Bank of America, Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of Ningbo, Citi, JP Morgan, Standard Chartered, HSBC, DBS, China Merchant Bank, ICBC, Union Pay, WeChat Pay, Alipay

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Corporate Treasury, Banking & FX in India

Report date: 
1 Apr 2025

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Topics covered in this report: 
FX, Hedging FX, Funding, GiftCity, Bank Relationships, Collections - domestic
Service providers discussed in this report: 
DBS, Citi, JP Morgan, BNP Paribas, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, ICICI, HDFC, State Bank of India, Kotak Mahindra Bank, SWIFT, 360T, Bloomberg

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