Weekly Brief Oct 01 Hong Kong adds tokenised deposit settlement to record digital green bond offering Financial Markets Weekly: Hong Kong prices $2.6 billion billion digital green bonds using tokenised deposits and Coinbase wins CFTC clearing approval.... 192
Weekly Brief Sep 30 Qatar draws strong global demand for $3 billion sovereign bond TAB Middle East Weekly Brief: Qatar's $3 billion bond draws $7.7 billion in orders as UAE restricts Bank Melli Iran branches.... 635
Weekly Brief Sep 30 Swift plans cross-border payments by phone number and email Transaction Finance Weekly: Swift's pay-by-alias framework, FedNow's cross-border leg, BNY's Pay-to-Wallet and JP Morgan-Thunes expand cross-border pa... 852
Weekly Brief Sep 23 Qatar Investment Authority and JP Morgan Asset Management form $20 billion investment partnership TAB Middle East Weekly Brief: QIA signed a $20 billion partnership with JP Morgan Asset Management and AWS confirmed unrecoverable cloud losses in Bah... 940
Interviews Sep 22 Can Partior reduce reliance on pre-funded liquidity in always-on cross-border payments? Partior CEO Humphrey Valenbreder said interoperability between banks, settlement institutions and different forms of commercial-bank money could reduc... 716
Weekly Brief Sep 15 DBS, OCBC and UOB complete first live tokenised SGD transactions using Swift ledger Transaction Finance Weekly: DBS, OCBC and UOB complete Swift's first live SGD tokenised-deposit settlement, Lloyds-SocGen digitise a letter of credit ... 2200
Weekly Brief Sep 11 US Department of Energy backs Duane Arnold nuclear restart with $1.9 billion loan Sustainable Finance Weekly: NextEra's $1.9 billion nuclear restart, Sonnedix's $1.3 billion Chile refinancing, Suniva's $835 million solar expansion a... 878
Weekly Brief Aug 11 Wells Fargo plans tokenised deposits, Deutsche Bank gains direct RMB clearing role Transaction Finance Weekly: Wells Fargo launches tokenised deposits for corporate clients, Deutsche Bank gains direct RMB clearing in Frankfurt, Klarn... 1302
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... 1186
Current Account Jun 05 Citi Institute projects $5.5T tokenised asset market by 2030 as DTCC, NYSE and Nasdaq embed tokenisation in core infrastructure Citi Institute projects a $5.5 trillion tokenised asset market by 2030, driven by public securities as DTCC, NYSE and Nasdaq integrate tokenisation.... 3594
Conference Apr 06 AI improves banking operations but exposes execution gaps At the Shanghai International AI Finance Summit 2026, Wang Kaijing of SenseTime discussed how AI-driven models enable banks to integrate structured a... 3197
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... 7081
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 20 UK’s FCA sharpens AI oversight as banks deploy models at scale As AI scales, the FCA is tightening governance and testing, with Jessica Rusu stressing production oversight and MAS alignment to manage cross-border ... 2976
Round Up Oct 27 Banks converge on AI, interoperability and tokenisation to build the next frontier of payments and trade At Sibos Frankfurt 2025, banks showcased AI, interoperability and tokenisation to modernise payments, trade, treasury and finance, building seamless g... 6656
Sibos Round Up Oct 07 Fireblocks builds the “core banking” infrastructure for digital assets and on-chain payments At Sibos Frankfurt 2025, Stephen Richardson, chief strategy officer and head of banking at Fireblocks, described how the company is simplifying access... 4895
Feature Sep 22 Beyond crypto – Stablecoins and tokenised assets in mainstream banking Stablecoins and tokenised assets are moving beyond their origins in the crypto markets and into mainstream banking and finance. Banks, market infrastr... 5747
Interviews Sep 05 JP Morgan and Kinexys on the next frontiers of payments and tokenisation As Sibos 2025 convenes in Frankfurt from late September to early October, Katja Lehr of JP Morgan and Akshika Gupta of Kinexys by JPMorgan laid out wh... 6570
Opening Keynote Jun 03 From cash to code - Rosie Rios on the next financial paradigm Rosie Rios, 43rd Treasurer of the United States and board member of Ripple, in her keynote at The Asian Banker Summit 2025 called on the financial sec... 8158
