Site Visits Oct 29 How Amap and Bank of Beijing are testing the business value of AI The final day of The Asian Banker Beijing AI Innovation Study Tour 2026 examined how AI is being applied to real-world activity and banking operations... 1331
Site Visits Oct 21 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 distribution and connected devices to ... 2023
Weekly Brief Oct 16 China’s export growth strengthens as household borrowing remains weak TAB China Weekly Brief: China’s exports surged in September while household loans contracted, Visa won clearing approval and banks received liquidit... 1052
Weekly Brief Oct 15 Visa gains preliminary approval for domestic card clearing in China, US bank earnings reveal contrasting retail results Retail Finance Weekly: Visa gains preliminary approval for China card clearing, India delays merchant fees and US banks report contrasting consumer re... 3460
Weekly Brief Oct 09 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 billion in bank capital bonds.... 5622
Weekly Brief Oct 07 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 rewards and Apple Pay enters ... 3354
Weekly Brief Sep 23 Ant Group brings Alipay, digital payments and Zhima Credit together for AI commerce Retail Finance Weekly: Ant Group consolidated Alipay and Zhima Credit for AI commerce, Revolut applied for a Swiss banking licence and six banks publi... 11383
Weekly Brief Sep 11 Morgan Stanley and Evercore shape OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Financial Services Financial Technology Weekly: OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services with Morgan Stanley and Evercore, Ant International expands AMP, Meta's Mu... 3296
Weekly Brief Aug 21 DBS deploys agentic AI in corporate credit, Ant scales FX forecasting across global banks Financial Technology Weekly: DBS rolls out agentic AI to 1,500 credit managers, Stripe agrees to acquire OpenRouter for over $7 billion and Absa's cha... 6047
Weekly Brief Jul 21 Emirates NBD goes live on Partior for 24/7 USD settlement, Deutsche Bank expands APAC escrow From Emirates NBD's real-time dollar payments to Deutsche Bank's trade finance guarantees and BBVA's Swift retail scheme, this week saw banks racing t... 1560
Interviews Jun 23 CIMB Niaga strengthens FX and digital payments amid market volatility CIMB Niaga has expanded its foreign exchange (FX) and digital payments capabilities in Indonesia, focusing on operational resilience and client-centri... 2244
Feature Jan 20 Rethinking digital money and settlement in a tokenised world Regulated digital money is shifting from trials to early production as banks in Asia Pacific and beyond build interoperable, compliant settlement syst... 7629
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 20 StraitsX builds the rails for real-world stablecoin payments Liu Tianwei, co-founder and CEO of StraitsX, explains how regulated digital money infrastructure across Asia links stablecoins to compliant, real-worl... 6622
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 20 Mastercard’s 2030 vision builds an intelligent future for payments Mastercard’s Sandeep Malhotra outlines how tokenisation, interoperability and AI-ready systems are reshaping Asia Pacific’s payments infrastructur... 5485
Co-published Oct 24 Ping An Bank drives business innovation through AI Ping An Bank leverages AI to strengthen core retail and transaction capabilities, driving innovation, efficiency and improved customer experience acro... 5599
Site Visits Sep 15 Ant Group, PingPong and Zhejiang University showcase compliance, payments and research innovation The third day of the China AI Innovation Study Tour 2025 in Hangzhou took participants through Ant Group’s growth journey, milestones and AML Centre... 5123
Roundtable Apr 07 AI reshapes banking, driving innovation and risk management At the Japan Banking Innovation Conference, TAB Global unveiled key insights from the Global Excellence in Digital and Retail Finance Programme 2025, ... 11450
