Weekly Brief Oct 21 Emirates NBD plans UAE-based OpenAI deployment, Dubai Investments prepares subsidiary IPO TAB Middle East Weekly Brief: Emirates NBD deploys OpenAI onshore, Dubai Investments plans DIP Holding flotation and Gulf bank profits diverge.... 608
Interviews Oct 20 Can Hong Kong’s licensed stablecoins gain a role in capital markets settlement? Animoca Brands’ Evan Auyang argues Licensed stablecoins could connect Hong Kong dollar assets to global blockchain liquidity, but tokenised deposits... 792
Weekly Brief Oct 14 Singapore Gulf Bank expands round-the-clock USD transfers through BNY Transaction Finance Weekly: Singapore Gulf Bank joins BNY’s 24/7 dollar transfers, OCBC and Ant International tokenise deposits and Citi funds IndiG... 2640
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.... 1165
Sibos Round Up Oct 06 Agentic payments are really about automating the task In a Sibos panel, Ant International, Goldman Sachs, Standard Chartered and NPCI International Payments discuss how agentic payments are about automati... 1386
Sibos Round Up Oct 06 When embedded payments move from checkout into treasury During a Sibos panel discussion, WorldFirst, BBVA, Visa and Federal Reserve Financial Services argue embedded B2B payments must move beyond execution ... 1043
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... 2468
Weekly Brief Aug 25 Standard Chartered and HSBC complete first tokenised deposit transaction, Citi launches near-real-time custody solutions Transaction Finance Weekly: Standard Chartered and HSBC complete the first live cross-border transaction using tokenised deposits on Swift’s blockch... 1487
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... 5561
Weekly Brief Jul 27 Perry Warjiyo’s surprise resignation follows Bank Indonesia’s 5.75% rate hold This week, Bank Indonesia's governor resigned in a surprise move, the OCC rejected Wise's US trust bank application and UniCredit raised its Commerzba... 1677
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... 1345
Interviews Jan 05 Elliptic strengthens the market integrity foundations for tokenised finance in Asia As tokenisation enters live deployment, Yvone Ng, vice president of APAC at Elliptic, explains how Asian banks and regulators are prioritising identit... 3683
Interviews Nov 20 StraitsX partners with Alipay+ and Grab to drive stablecoin payment adoption Liu Tianwei, co-founder and chief executive officer of StraitsX, and Kenny Chan, head of StraitsX, discuss how the company is advancing stablecoin ado... 9031
