Weekly Brief Oct 07 IMF expects GCC economic contraction in 2026 while UAE lending grows TAB Middle East Weekly Brief: IMF sees GCC economic contraction in 2026 as Qatar links its government debt to Euroclear.... 64
Weekly Brief Oct 07 Always-on payments and embedded banking expand into corporate and institutional workflows Transaction Finance Weekly: Citi takes cross-border payments beyond office hours as HSBC enters client systems and IFC backs supplier finance.... 61
Weekly Brief Oct 01 Nubank eyes UK banking expansion through potential Monzo acquisition Retail Finance Weekly: Nubank explores Monzo acquisition, Revolut wins Banco Cetelem Argentina approval and China bars non-bank payment institutions l... 1295
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... 1423
Weekly Brief Sep 25 BNP Paribas adds Google Cloud AI while retaining limits on public cloud data Financial Technology Weekly: BNP Paribas and Société Générale push AI deeper into banking operations, as regulators and industry bodies race to de... 1310
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 ... 2381
Weekly Brief Sep 02 TDB secures $800 million facility, South Africa reshapes payment system governance TAB Africa Weekly Brief: Funding diversification and payment system reform drove Africa's financial sector this week.... 695
Weekly Brief Aug 27 Vanguard and Wellington test tokenised collateral, CIMB pilots sukuk settlement Financial Markets Weekly: Vanguard, Wellington test tokenised collateral; CIMB settles $343m tokenised sukuk; Coinbase launches tokenised US stocks.... 801
Interviews Aug 13 Can DBS simplify cross-border payments as they become more complex? As cross-border payments become more sophisticated, DBS Bank's Sriram Muthukrishnan argues that competitive advantage will increasingly belong to bank... 1765
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... 1600
Weekly Brief Aug 05 HSBC exits two retail markets, Standard Chartered transfers Singapore lending portfolio to Trust Retail Finance Weekly: HSBC exits Australian and Egyptian retail banking through sales to Blackstone and Emirates NBD, while Visa agrees to acquire Bi... 2323
Weekly Brief Aug 03 Hong Kong banks confront quantum-readiness gap, Lombard Odier faces $3.7 million fine Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: HKMA's new Quantum Preparedness Index shows early-stage readiness at Hong Kong banks, while Lombard Odier faces a CHF 3... 966
Awards Ceremonies Dec 16 China Merchants Bank and ICBC lead Chinese private banking winners at Wealth and Society Awards 2025 China Merchants Bank and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China led the winners at the Wealth and Society Awards 2025, where ten leading wealth manag... 8374
Roundtable Jun 04 AI, digital currencies and decentralised disruption reshape the future of banking and finance In a wide-ranging and candid dialogue at The Asian Banker Summit Leadership Luncheon Dialogue, global financial executives, technologists and regulato... 5071
Research Note Nov 15 China signals orderly distribution of distressed real estate assets With 41% of China's $45 trillion in banking assets and 27% of its $30 trillion in loans exposed to the property market, authorities are likely to init... 9225
Research Note Jun 20 Banks forced to get better in servicing their SME customers While fintechs may take some market share away in specific niches, the partnerships, analytics, and value-add that leading banks are developing can k... 14690
Case Study Apr 18 How Funding Societies is leveraging on technology to create a sustainable P2P lending platform ... 12023
