Fiona Horsewill (HSBC), Vivek Ramachandran (HSBC) and Manish Kohli (HSBC) discuss how global trends are impacting the future of securities services, global trade, and cross-border payments.

They cover the major trends in the current landscape, including how global trade flows are shifting, the progress of trade digitalisation and what can be done to increase the pace of adoption. Also, they delve into the wave of changes that is impact the payments infrastructure, including the migration to ISO 20022 and how payments are adapting to new business models. Finally, they look to the future with the new technologies that are taking hold, such as digital assets and tokenisation.