Weekly Brief Jun 01, 2026 Central banks recalibrate while agentic AI moves into production Diverging monetary policy and rapid AI adoption reshape banking risk this week, as Fed vice chair Bowman signals no rate... 712
Current Account May 26, 2026 CIMB Group posts $400 million Q1 profit as fee income and cost cuts offset margin pressure Malaysia’s second-largest lender by assets reported steady income growth and lower costs, while net interest margins s... 1850
Datafiles May 26, 2026 Digital banks with loan books above $250 million more likely to reach profitability Digital banks with loan balances above $250 million are significantly more likely to be profitable, as scale and product... 749
Opinion May 26, 2026 Chinese yuan emerges as situational safe-haven currency With the Strait of Hormuz under severe disruption, the world is facing a major physical shock to oil supplies through wh... 1871
Weekly Brief May 25, 2026 Currencies under pressure, frameworks under construction Currency pressure drives rate action in Indonesia, India and Nigeria as China holds its loan prime rate for a twelfth mo... 591
Interviews May 25, 2026 FirstBank’s Digital Xperience Centres expand self-service banking First Bank of Nigeria Limited has aggressively rolled out Digital Xperience Centres (DXCs)—fully automated, self-servi... 1949
Obituary May 25, 2026 In memoriam Barney Frank - A legislator who remained engaged with the future of finance Barney Frank, former US Congressman and Dodd-Frank co-author, passed away at 86. He reshaped financial regulation and re... 1176
Interviews May 25, 2026 HSBC tokenises deposits to solve 24/7 treasury problem Lewis Sun, global head of digital currencies, corporate and institutional banking at HSBC, explains how tokenised deposi... 3265
Interviews May 22, 2026 HBL modernises core banking through continuous transformation HBL CTO Faisal Anwar believes large-scale banking transformation increasingly depends on whether incumbent institutions ... 2596
Current Account May 22, 2026 RHB targets SME cyber risk as Malaysia's fraud losses double and AI sharpens attack tooling RHB's integration of AML and fraud management, combined with an SME cyber self-assessment tool, points to a broader chal... 2551
Current Account May 21, 2026 Grab takes control of Indonesia’s Superbank, deepening SEA fintech push Grab Holdings Limited will make Indonesian digital lender Superbank a subsidiary after Singtel transfers its stake to GX... 3172
Interviews May 21, 2026 Techcombank engineers reusable AI agent platform to accelerate software development Techcombank is investing in centralised AI governance and a modular agent platform designed to transform its software de... 2692
Current Account May 21, 2026 Singapore tests whether trust can beat scale in the AI financial hub race Tan Su Shan, CEO of DBS, and Gan Kim Yong, Singapore’s deputy prime minister and minister for trade and industry, set ... 2030
Interviews May 21, 2026 What does Trust Bank’s profitable month say about digital banking economics in Singapore? Trust Bank’s first profitable month in March 2026 is an important milestone, but the more meaningful question is wheth... 3064
Datafiles May 20, 2026 European banking sector net profit expected to reach $408 billion in 2026 The macroeconomic outlook for 2026 remains uncertain, with both the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Mo... 659
Briefing May 20, 2026 AI agents expose the readiness gap in financial institutions Anouska Ladds of Mastercard and Johnson Poh of Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority argue that AI agents w... 468
