The world's financial markets continue to shift with the increasing globalisation of business, an emerging digital economy and an evolving regulatory framework. The industry has responded with an array of new technology solutions and business models that, while opening up opportunities, are also impacting the liquidity and payments landscape.

It is these factors that have led HSBC to begin shaping the "Dealing Room of Tomorrow." Our vision is to create a long-term strategy and environment for innovation that translates into banking solutions and services that not only make it easy to adapt to change but help anticipate it as well. For corporate treasurers in particular, this kind of forward-looking approach meets today's needs and lay the foundation for future success in three strategic areas.

#1: Managing risk with dynamic hedging strategies

In today's post-crisis economic environment market volatility, liquidity risk and sluggish growth are making it more challenging to implement an effective risk management strategy.