Conference Nov 09 Can AI regulation give businesses clear rules and regulators the means to enforce them? EU, US and UK perspectives at the World AI Regulation Summit examined how clearer requirements, investigative powers and regulatory expertise can make... 110
Weekly Brief Nov 04 Revolut gains New Zealand banking licence; lending growth lifts Grab’s financial services earnings Retail Finance Weekly: Digital banks widened their reach as Revolut won a New Zealand licence and lending lifted Grab’s financial services to positi... 818
Weekly Brief Oct 30 FAB cuts trade-document processing times by over 70%, BBVA reports 28% developer productivity gain Financial Technology Weekly: Banks report AI gains in single processes, from trade documents to lending, while UK supervisors find post-deployment mon... 1055
Weekly Brief Oct 26 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 requirements cushion Barclays.... 977
Weekly Brief Oct 26 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 funding conditions diverge across... 3033
Weekly Brief Oct 23 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 Cloud London outage exposes ba... 1663
Weekly Brief Oct 13 IMF warns hedge fund leverage could amplify market stress Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: IMF puts hedge fund exposures at $40 trillion as Basel implementation gaps and India’s reserve rules test banks.... 1770
Weekly Brief Oct 02 NGFS outlines how climate risk could raise banks’ capital requirements Sustainable Finance Weekly: NGFS outlines climate capital buffers, FCA softens disclosure rules and DBS and ING underwrite a GBP 1.016 billion London ... 1325
Weekly Brief Sep 21 Federal Reserve review finds delayed supervisory action before Silicon Valley Bank failure Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: A Fed review found supervisors knew of SVB's flaws by 2022 but failed to act, as ECB problem loans rose. ... 1119
Weekly Brief Sep 04 Deutsche Bank plans 15-to-two core overhaul as banks quantify AI gains Financial Technology Weekly: Deutsche Bank consolidates core systems as TD and CMB scale AI while regulators flag cyber-resilience risks.... 1783
Weekly Brief Aug 13 NVIDIA targets $500 billion AI infrastructure financing, Goldman Sachs scales active ETF business Financial Markets Weekly: NVIDIA partners with six investment groups to mobilise $500 billion for AI infrastructure, Goldman Sachs agrees to acquire N... 2375
Weekly Brief Aug 06 ICE agrees $5.7 billion MarketAxess acquisition, BlackRock expands tokenised fund access in Europe Financial Markets Weekly: Intercontinental Exchange agrees $5.7 billion MarketAxess acquisition as BlackRock expands tokenised money-market fund acces... 2095
Weekly Brief Jul 15 JP Morgan posts largest US bank Q2 earnings, Visa launches AI assistant Record Wall Street profits from trading and dealmaking contrast with muted consumer banking growth, as the UK regulates BNPL, Klarna seeks a US bank c... 748
Weekly Brief Jul 13 Chip stocks lose $2.1 trillion, UK puts cloud giants under bank oversight This week's Asian Banker Weekly Brief covers the collapsed US-Iran ceasefire and oil surge, a $2.1 trillion chip selloff, Swift's blockchain payments ... 904
Weekly Brief Jul 06 China's central bank adds overnight repo tool, RBI names AI cyberattacks top bank risk Four central bank chiefs unite in Sintra against forward guidance, as the ECB's Claudia Buch resists easing capital rules, China debuts an overnight r... 968
Weekly Brief Jun 08 From Basel to Beijing, regulators reshape how capital moves ESMA advances centralised European market supervision as China extends state oversight to outbound investment, while US regulators strip reputational ... 757
Weekly Brief Jun 01 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 hike, BOJ's Ueda flags oil-sh... 957
Weekly Brief May 25 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 month, while US and UK regulator... 780
Weekly Brief May 18 Warsh takes the Fed as US-China talks reset trade risk Kevin Warsh is confirmed as Federal Reserve chair, Trump's Beijing visit extends the US-China trade truce, Japan's megabanks post record profits with ... 1052
Weekly Brief Apr 27 Banks face tighter regulatory oversight as policy and credit risks converge A weekly briefing on the developments shaping global banking and what decision-makers need to understand.... 2185
Feature Jan 21 AI governance moves into the enterprise core of financial services As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation to core financial infrastructure, governance is becoming the decisive factor shaping the future ... 5898
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 28 CFIT positions the UK as a model of prudence in digital-money regulation CFIT’s Nicole Sandler outlines the UK’s stability-first stablecoin approach, global divergence in reserve and redemption models, and what banks mu... 3225
Interviews Oct 13 Sumsub doubles down on continuous verification to secure digital finance At TOKEN2049 Singapore, Sumsub’s Ilya Brovin highlights how AI and digital-ID frameworks like eIDAS 2.0 are transforming continuous digital-identity... 3798
Interviews Sep 03 Digital assets move into mainstream banking at Standard Chartered Standard Chartered has been at the forefront of bridging the world of crypto-native innovation and regulated finance. Rene Michau, group head of digit... 7166
Speeches and Presentations May 24 Innovation and resilience—What’s on the supervisors’ radar? In his opening keynote at The Asian Banker Summit 2024, Arthur Yuen, Deputy Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, explored the dual imp... 6359