Industry veteran, stalwart and recently retired CEO of Maybank Abdul Farid Alias was honoured for his career achievements and contributions to the financial industry at The Asian Banker Leadership Achievement Awards 2022.

More than a third of the 31,000 cryptocurrencies have disappeared from marketplaces, with many more recording large losses in valuation, despite the increase in interest and use by the general public, as well as regulations that are slowly becoming more accepting of digital assets.

Martha Sazon, president and CEO of Mynt/GCash, discussed the rapid growth of the fintech company, how being cloud native helped it become profitable ahead of time and how it will facilitate a more sustainable future.

Emirates NBD’s improved sales and customer experience strengthened its retail banking performance.

Temenos’ product director, Cormac Flanagan and chief marketing officer, Martin Häring, discussed the industry’s path towards core banking modernisation and how it is leveraging the cloud and SaaS solutions to help banks transform and innovate.

TPBank has developed digital ecosystems in collaboration with fintech and tech startups to have a better customer engagement and experience. The bank built an ecosystem of banking and non-banking services to address customer needs. These products and services were provided through a combination of physical and virtual channels, as well as third-party platforms.

One of Vietnam’s largest commercial banks, Techcombank launched its host-to-host payment integration in February 2021. The implementation allows clients to transact payments in an end-to-end straight-through processing cycle.

The future of cross-border transactions took centre stage on the SWIFT programme at SIBOS 2022. Here are its top 10 takeaways.

In this RadioFinance session, Yasushi Itagaki, CEO of Bank Danamon discussed how Indonesia responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how the bank intends to grow by building on local branding and management expertise, serving domestic SMEs, corporates and consumers, as well as the prospects of future acquisitions to improve returns.

China has the largest green loan balance in the world, estimates place its green loan balance at $ 3.3 trillion by end of 2022

Singapore has set its eyes on being a family office hub on the global stage. T. Mandy Tham, Esther Kong, Juliana Koh of the Business Families Institute at Singapore Management University explores the development of external asset managers as an emerging wealth management choice among high net-worth individuals and families.

China has the largest green loan balance in the world, estimates place its green loan balance at $3.3 trillion by end of 2022

Indian banks still dominate the list of the top 10 banks with the highest nonperforming loan (NPL)ratio among the 500 largest banks in Asia Pacific, despite the improved asset quality. In addition, the list also includes two banks from Bangladesh and one each from China, Japan, and Pakistan.

QIB’s retail banking business displayed robust growth in 2021, as advanced technologies were used to grow its customer base.

BIBD’s total retail banking contributed more than half of its total income. The bank’s NEXGEN Wallet recorded over 150,000 regular users with an average of $126.9 million (BND 171.7 million) transactions per month that represents 90% of its total retail transactions.