Bank Results Oct 09, 2026 Hong Kong banks turn wealth and client flows into the next earnings engine Hong Kong’s leading banks accelerated median pre-tax profit growth to 16.3% year on year (YOY) in the first half of 20... 87
Weekly Brief Oct 09, 2026 South Korea’s K-GX plan backs industrial decarbonisation with $747 billion Sustainable Finance Weekly: South Korea’s K-GX commits KRW 1,000 trillion to industrial decarbonisation, while Thailan... 252
Weekly Brief Oct 09, 2026 Golden Week retail and cross-border payments grow as China expands financial support TAB China Weekly Brief: Golden Week cross-border payments grow as China begins mortgage subsidies and auctions RMB 150 b... 504
Weekly Brief Oct 09, 2026 ICE and OKX file to trade 63 tokenised US stocks, UBS hands fund administration to Northern Trust Financial Markets Weekly: ICE and OKX file to trade 63 tokenised US stocks, the CFTC seeks views on leveraged retail cry... 380
Conference Oct 08, 2026 Crypto moves beyond digital assets into community formation and price discovery Balaji Srinivasan and Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan described different ways to apply crypto infrastructure beyond di... 508
Obituary Oct 08, 2026 In memoriam: Cesar Virata, an institution-builder who helped shape our own journey Cesar E.A. Virata, former prime minister and finance minister of the Philippines and a longstanding member of The Asian ... 432
Weekly Brief Oct 07, 2026 BCEAO sets new electronic money transfer rules across West Africa TAB Africa Weekly Brief: BCEAO mandates instant-payment interoperability, Zambia cuts rates 250 basis points and Attijar... 636
Weekly Brief Oct 07, 2026 Australia’s card reforms reshape payment costs and bank rewards Retail Finance Weekly: Australia's interchange cuts and surcharge ban reshape card economics as Commonwealth Bank widens... 1206
Interviews Oct 07, 2026 What does it take to lead a well-run bank in an AI-driven financial system? As AI reshapes banking execution, Hong Leong Bank CEO Kevin Lam argues that the harder leadership task is building insti... 627
Opinion Oct 07, 2026 Neutral infrastructure is key to institutional on-chain finance As financial institutions connect to independently governed on-chain markets and applications, neutral shared infrastru... 659
Sibos Round Up Oct 07, 2026 Can Bottomline make payment optionality resilient without adding fragmentation? Standardised data, AI and more payment rails give banks optionality, but Natasha Lapierre argues value requires systems ... 528
Weekly Brief Oct 07, 2026 IMF expects GCC economic contraction in 2026 while UAE lending grows TAB Middle East Weekly Brief: IMF sees GCC economic contraction in 2026 as Qatar links its government debt to Euroclear.... 794
Weekly Brief Oct 07, 2026 Always-on payments and embedded banking expand into corporate and institutional workflows Transaction Finance Weekly: Citi takes cross-border payments beyond office hours as HSBC enters client systems and IFC b... 916
Sibos Round Up Oct 06, 2026 Can FIS make payments intelligent enough to choose the right rail? FIS's Kevin Flood expects orchestrated intelligence to abstract rail choice from clients, while embedded controls preser... 910
Sibos Round Up Oct 06, 2026 Agentic payments are really about automating the task In a Sibos panel, Ant International, Goldman Sachs, Standard Chartered and NPCI International Payments discuss how agent... 829
Sibos Round Up Oct 06, 2026 When embedded payments move from checkout into treasury During a Sibos panel discussion, WorldFirst, BBVA, Visa and Federal Reserve Financial Services argue embedded B2B paymen... 734
