Singapore’s best trade finance bank 2025: HSBC

HSBC has made meaningful progress in modernising trade finance in Singapore – compressing timelines, embedding capabilities into client operations and linking outcomes to measurable sustainability – setting a new benchmark for a truly digital, borderless ecosystem. 

A key component of the bank’s strategy in Singapore, as in other core markets, was the rollout of HSBC Trade Solutions (HTS), a fully API-native core system. Built on a modular architecture, HTS gives corporate treasurers end-to-end digital processing and real-time approvals on mobile, while automated FX conversion simplifies international payments.

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