Weekly Brief Sep 28 US and Japanese bond yields hit multi-decade highs after Fed and BoJ hikes The Asian Banker Weekly Brief: US and Japanese bond yields hit multi-decade highs after Fed, BoJ hikes, as US-China trade truce extends, China profits... 794
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... 1187
Weekly Brief Sep 17 US Senate blocks Clarity Act, delaying digital asset market structure legislation Financial Markets Weekly: US Senate blocks Clarity Act, Circle launches Arc blockchain, Shanghai Clearing House adds three currencies, India widens to... 1063
Weekly Brief Sep 14 ECB raises rates to 2.50% as euro-area energy inflation hits 14.3% The Asian Banker Weekly Brief: The ECB raised rates to 2.50% as inflation rose and Saudi pipeline attacks disrupted oil supply, while UniCredit advanc... 992
Weekly Brief Sep 11 REC completes India’s first tokenised corporate-bond pilot with wholesale CBDC settlement Financial Markets Weekly: REC completes India's first tokenised bond pilot with RBI wholesale CBDC settlement as Standard Chartered launches UAE crypt... 1196
Weekly Brief Sep 03 Broadridge takes $351 billion-a-day tokenised repo platform across G7 markets Financial Markets Weekly: Broadridge scaled its $351 billion repo platform, as China enforced new variation-margin rules.... 722
Weekly Brief Aug 17 China records $50 billion bank-lending contraction, Bank of America enters Indian consumer credit with Jio Financial The Asian Banker Weekly Brief: China's bank lending contracts by a record RMB340 billion, US inflation eases to 3.4%, Japan's GDP growth slows to 0.3%... 3269
Weekly Brief Aug 14 CBA quantifies AI benefits, RBI pushes banks to inventory AI models Financial Technology Weekly: CBA puts a AUD200 million value on AI benefits, APRA penalises Bendigo Bank over cyber accountability failures, RBI deman... 1726
Weekly Brief Aug 12 Kenya keeps rates at 8.75%, Afreximbank extends record EUR 110 million facility to Chad TAB Africa Weekly Brief: Kenya holds its policy rate at 8.75% and approves its first banking-sector ETF, Afreximbank extends Chad a EUR 110 million fa... 1315
Weekly Brief Aug 11 RBI proposes leverage buffer for G-SIB branches, UOB sale to add 14 basis points to CET1 Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: RBI proposes a G-SIB leverage buffer, the Fed launches a private-credit risk survey, UOB sells its asset-management uni... 1462
Weekly Brief Aug 10 China expands currency swaps with Malaysia and Argentina, Singapore banks grow fee income The Asian Banker Weekly Brief: China expands currency swaps with Malaysia and Argentina, Singapore banks grow fee income as margins narrow, Westpac mo... 1554
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... 1460
Weekly Brief Jul 30 X enters financial services with accounts, cards and payments Retail Finance Weekly: X launches X Money, Upstart secures a conditional bank charter, PayPal lifts payment volume to $486.4 billion, and DBS expands ... 2085
Current Account Jul 28 India’s Bank of Baroda data breach exposes customer records after employee email compromise A compromised employee email account allegedly exposed customer identification documents, loan records and internal audit files. The bank has not disc... 8584
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... 1532
Weekly Brief Jul 20 EU proposes freer movement of bank capital and liquidity, JPMorgan questions US capital reset This week, the European Commission proposed freer capital and liquidity movement across banking groups, JPMorgan pushed back on uneven US capital refo... 982
Weekly Brief Jul 06 BlackRock private credit fund gates again, India's HDFC Bank clears governance review BlackRock's HPS fund gates withdrawals for a second quarter as insurer private credit exposure draws Treasury scrutiny, while HDFC Bank clears a gover... 661
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... 680
Weekly Brief Jun 15 Italy's largest bank deal, Asian currency defence Intesa Sanpaolo's EUR 30.6 billion ($35.3 billion) bid for Monte dei Paschi becomes Italy's largest banking deal, as EU ministers advance centralised ... 623
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 ... 543
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... 655
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 ... 597
Interviews Apr 15 Standard Chartered's blueprint for transformation that lasts Standard Chartered's Fit for Growth programme saved $754 million, exceeding return targets a year early. Global head of group transformation, Brian O'... 4207
Interviews Oct 26 Techcombank’s Jens Lottner: “Our two new buildings merge traditions with a digital future” CEO Jens Lottner shared Techcombank’s innovative approach and vision following the opening of its headquarters in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in Viet... 9000
Interviews Jul 17 BCS leverages AWS cloud solution for cross-border real-time payments Cloud-based infrastructure plays a crucial role in enabling digital cross-border instant payment systems between Singapore and India... 13786
Research Note Dec 02 Blockchain to support better governance as sustainability funds increase The push for climate change considerations puts pressure on financial services companies to develop and use advanced technologies such as blockchain t... 15109
Research Note Nov 06 Emerging technologies are bringing speed and efficiency to trade settlements ... 6444
