Weekly Brief Oct 26, 2026 Sweden’s SEB pauses buybacks as Barclays plans further capital returns ahead of Basel 3.1 Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: Supervisory model changes cut SEB’s buffer by 120 basis points as lower Pillar 2A requi... 617
Weekly Brief Oct 26, 2026 AI sell-off drives US Treasury rally as French 10-year yield tops 5% The Asian Banker Weekly Brief: Investors question whether AI infrastructure spending can deliver lasting returns, as fun... 943
Weekly Brief Oct 23, 2026 ISSB proposes nature disclosure guidance, China expands industrial carbon accounting Sustainable Finance Weekly: Nature-risk reporting and carbon-price benchmarks are sharpening transition planning, but em... 1101
Weekly Brief Oct 23, 2026 Crédit Agricole expands AI agents, Santander reports lower model costs, Google Cloud outage hits banks Financial Technology Weekly: Crédit Agricole expands AI agents and Santander reports lower model costs, while a Google ... 1241
Site Visits Oct 23, 2026 How BAAI and Tencent are testing AI reliability and exposing digital banking security gaps Research into autonomous AI and a demonstration of manipulated facial video exposed different challenges for banks durin... 1108
Weekly Brief Oct 23, 2026 PBOC considers overnight policy rate and plans bond market liquidity backstop TAB China Weekly Brief: PBOC outlines reforms to its policy-rate framework, corporate loan pricing and liquidity support... 2003
Current Account Oct 22, 2026 BPI names Ginbee Go as next president and CEO, succeeding TG Limcaoco in April 2027 Bank of the Philippine Islands has named consumer banking chief Maria Cristina “Ginbee” Go as its next president and... 1205
Weekly Brief Oct 22, 2026 DTCC prepares tokenisation service, Bank Negara Malaysia launches bond and sukuk platform Financial Markets Weekly: Transaction Finance Weekly: Tokenisation enters core infrastructure as DTCC readies onboarding... 1225
Site Visits Oct 21, 2026 How ByteDance, Xiaomi and Ant Group are turning AI into commercial applications ByteDance, Xiaomi and Ant Group are applying AI to different parts of their commercial ecosystems, from content distribu... 1684
Site Visits Oct 21, 2026 How CCB and MEGVII are addressing the data and identity challenges of AI in banking The opening day of The Asian Banker Beijing AI Innovation Study Tour 2026 examined two challenges in deploying AI across... 1226
Weekly Brief Oct 21, 2026 Emirates NBD plans UAE-based OpenAI deployment, Dubai Investments prepares subsidiary IPO TAB Middle East Weekly Brief: Emirates NBD deploys OpenAI onshore, Dubai Investments plans DIP Holding flotation and Gul... 1369
Interviews Oct 20, 2026 Can CIMB turn local relationships into a connected ASEAN wealth franchise? CIMB is building its wealth strategy around longstanding local customer relationships across its core ASEAN markets. Its... 316
Interviews Oct 20, 2026 Can Hong Kong’s licensed stablecoins gain a role in capital markets settlement? Animoca Brands’ Evan Auyang argues Licensed stablecoins could connect Hong Kong dollar assets to global blockchain liq... 1883
Weekly Brief Oct 20, 2026 Spanish banks extend blockchain into syndicated loan administration, Visa launches stablecoin prefunding Transaction Finance Weekly: Santander and BBVA administer a syndicated loan on blockchain as Visa takes stablecoin prefu... 1323
Weekly Brief Oct 19, 2026 IMF raises 2026 global growth forecast to 3.1% as inflation and AI sell-off test market resilience The Asian Banker Weekly Brief: Despite an upgraded IMF growth outlook, oil-driven inflation, higher yields and an AI-sha... 1686
Interviews Oct 19, 2026 Moving beyond digital asset pilots brings treasury and controls into focus Talos’s Samar Sen argues that banks moving beyond tokenisation pilots need shared custody, settlement and treasury inf... 1200
