Higher spending despite inflation - (TREASURY NEWS)

Pushpendra Mehta meets with Craig Jeffery, Managing Partner of Strategic Treasurer, and Jack Large, Editor of CTMfile, to review the latest treasury news and developments. Topics of discussion include the following:

• Hong Kong’s key borrowing rate surging to highest level since 2008
• Deutsche Bank offering loans to combat energy crisis
• Spiralling gas prices threatening to trigger European recession
• Barclays selling remaining shares in South African lender Absa
• Standard Chartered focusing on Singapore’s retail segment, rolling out digital-only bank
• Banco Santander partnering with Trovata
• US companies expecting to spend more to drive productivity despite inflation
• US government restricting chip exports to China and Russia, sending semiconductor stocks tumbling