Feature Nov 03 Can tokenised deposits become mainstream money? Live cross-bank transactions are moving tokenised deposits beyond experimentation. Their next test is whether they can achieve the interoperability, l... 1301
Interviews Nov 02 How is Pintu navigating the cryptocurrency downturn while preparing for the next growth cycle? Indonesia’s digital asset trading platform Pintu is prioritising operational resilience over expansion as weak cryptocurrency markets constrain tran... 1407
Interviews Oct 27 How can OCBC sustain its financial strength amid structural change? OCBC Group CEO Tan Teck Long sees regional knowledge, diversified earnings and customer trust as essential to navigating geopolitical uncertainty and ... 1559
Sibos Round Up Oct 16 Can Deutsche Bank make different forms of digital money work together at institutional scale? Sabih Behzad sees stablecoins, tokenised deposits and central bank money serving different purposes rather than competing for one winning model. For D... 1519
Conference Oct 15 Nigeria’s banks face the harder test of turning financial strength into economic value At Finance West Africa 2026, banking and technology leaders questioned whether recapitalisation would translate into productive lending, challenged th... 1794
Sibos Round Up Oct 15 Can ACI turn payments modernisation into growth without multiplying infrastructure? As banks move mule detection, account validation and real-time payments further into production while exploring tokenised money, ACI Worldwide’s Sco... 1280
Sibos Round Up Oct 14 Can Wise become a strategic cross-border payments layer for banks? Wise Platform is moving beyond individual payment corridors as banks use its direct access to domestic clearing systems to improve speed, predictabili... 1629
Sibos Round Up Oct 13 Can Standard Chartered move agentic payments from recommendation to delegated action? Standard Chartered sees agentic payments advancing in stages: first using richer data to provide visibility, then recommending actions and eventually ... 1341
Sibos Round Up Oct 13 Can Deutsche Bank connect digital-asset custody with its wider securities services franchise? Deutsche Bank has recently put its digital asset custody business live and is using Sibos to discuss it with clients at scale. The development sits wi... 1280
Interviews Oct 12 How HLB is keeping pace with clients’ growing wealth HLB is seeking to convert more of its retail and commercial banking relationships into wealth relationships and retain customers as their assets becom... 384
Sibos Round Up Oct 12 Can Kinexys become the connective tissue between tokenised and traditional finance? JP Morgan is expanding Kinexys across currencies and payment infrastructures while participating in industry-led networks. Zack Chestnut argues that t... 1670
Interviews Oct 12 Can Solana Company compound SOL per share? The Nasdaq-listed digital asset treasury, Solana Company, is betting that active capital management can give shareholders greater SOL exposure over ti... 1622
Sibos Round Up Oct 12 Can DBS make transaction banking convergence work across new trade corridors? DBS is bringing cash management, trade, supply chain finance, real-time payments and tokenised money closer together as Asian companies expand into ne... 1475
Sibos Round Up Oct 12 Can Bank of America turn the next technology cycle into better payments outcomes? Bank of America sees the convergence of AI, distributed ledgers and tokenisation as a major new technology cycle in payments. Mark Monaco says the opp... 1855
Obituary Oct 08 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 Banker’s community of advise... 1087
Interviews Oct 07 What does it take to lead a well-run bank in an AI-driven financial system? As AI reshapes banking execution and competitive models, Hong Leong Bank CEO Kevin Lam argues that the harder leadership task is building institutions... 1356
