Financial Markets Weekly: Hong Kong prices $2.6 billion digital green bonds using tokenised deposits, Coinbase wins CFTC clearing approval and DTCC invests in iCapital; Capitolis buys eSecLending for $200 million.
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 payments; Citi extends tokenised liquidity.
Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: Swiss lawmakers advance a $16 billion CET1 hit for UBS, as Fed proposes capital rules for stablecoin issuers.
Financial Technology Weekly: BNP Paribas and Société Générale push AI deeper into banking operations, as regulators and industry bodies race to define liability and governance around it.
Financial Markets Weekly: Six Canadian banks began exploring a shared approach to tokenised deposits, while Hong Kong proposed changes to transaction rules and Singapore introduced new disclosure requirements for listed companies.
Transaction Finance Weekly: The Eurosystem launched Pontes for tokenised asset settlement, Partior and LSEG DiSH built a multi-bank liquidity framework, HSBC expanded cross-border cash pooling in China and NPCI introduced a UPI merchant fee framework.
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. Australian liquidity improved but stable funding weakened, as Hong Kong planned renminbi tenders and Japan and Malaysia doubled their swap line.
Financial Technology Weekly: Sony Bank and Fujitsu apply GenAI to core banking, FIS wins mandates across new US banks, Partior and LSEG develop 24/7 cross-border settlement liquidity.
Financial Markets Weekly: US Senate blocks Clarity Act, Circle launches Arc blockchain, Shanghai Clearing House adds three currencies, India widens tokenised-bond pilot.
Transaction Finance Weekly: DBS, OCBC and UOB complete Swift's first live SGD tokenised-deposit settlement, Lloyds-SocGen digitise a letter of credit and US Bank pilots USBDC stablecoin.
Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: EU delays FRTB capital impacts through 2029, Canada cuts SME risk weights, Singapore proposes loss-absorbing capacity rules, and UniCredit gains 52bp CET1 boost.
Risk and Capital Weekly: China's state banks bolster capital, APRA tightens controls at ING Australia, RBI moves to drain surplus liquidity
Transaction Finance Weekly: Citi and HSBC advance Swift-ledger payments, OFSI fines Citi and ByteDance secures a $29.6 billion loan.
Financial Technology Weekly: Deutsche Bank consolidates core systems as TD and CMB scale AI while regulators flag cyber-resilience risks.
Financial Markets Weekly: Institutions globally advanced tokenisation and cross-border settlement infrastructure this week, as Broadridge scaled its $351 billion repo platform and China enforced variation-margin rules.