Executives from Ripple Prime, Chainlink, FalconX and Nasdaq discussed how tokenised collateral could encourage banks and prime brokers to finance onchain activity and reduce upfront margin requirements, while highlighting operational, security and regulatory challenges to institutional adoption.

Wise Platform is moving beyond individual payment corridors as banks use its direct access to domestic clearing systems to improve speed, predictability and customer experience. The bigger test is whether that infrastructure can become a broader operating layer as payments move towards an always-on model.

TAB Middle East Weekly Brief: QNB’s $2.5 billion loan draws Asian backing, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank raises equity and deposit competition intensifies.

Transaction Finance Weekly: Singapore Gulf Bank joins BNY’s 24/7 dollar transfers, OCBC and Ant International tokenise deposits and Citi funds IndiGo’s aircraft.

Standard Chartered sees agentic payments advancing in stages: first using richer data to provide visibility, then recommending actions and eventually allowing authorised agents to execute them. Sunday Domingo sees governance, permissions, auditability and trust as critical to how far corporate treasurers are prepared to delegate.

Deutsche Bank has recently put its digital asset custody business live and is using Sibos to discuss it with clients at scale. The development sits within a broader effort to bring custody, foreign exchange, liquidity and cash management closer together as tokenisation shortens the securities value chain and settlement moves towards real time.

Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: IMF puts hedge fund exposures at $40 trillion as Basel implementation gaps and India’s reserve rules test banks.

HLB is seeking to convert more of its retail and commercial banking relationships into wealth relationships and retain customers as their assets become increasingly sophisticated, cross border and intergenerational. Its growth ambitions depend on deepening relationships it already has while building the capabilities to serve them.

JP Morgan is expanding Kinexys across currencies and payment infrastructures while participating in industry-led networks. Zack Chestnut argues that the greater value lies not in any single form of digital money, but in connecting fiat, tokenised assets, public and private blockchains and emerging settlement systems.

The Nasdaq-listed digital asset treasury, Solana Company, is betting that active capital management can give shareholders greater SOL exposure over time than buying the digital asset directly, while its infrastructure and advisory businesses remain ancillary to that objective.

The Asian Banker Weekly Brief: India resumed monetary tightening as US and French bond markets sold off, oil remained above $100 a barrel and the Financial Stability Board identified gaps in bank-resolution funding.

DBS is bringing cash management, trade, supply chain finance, real-time payments and tokenised money closer together as Asian companies expand into new markets. Sriram Muthukrishnan sees convergence as the central change, with clients increasingly looking at payments, collections and financing as part of the same transaction banking experience.

Bank of America sees the convergence of AI, distributed ledgers and tokenisation as a major new technology cycle in payments. Mark Monaco says the opportunity is to turn these technologies into faster, more efficient and safer outcomes for clients, while introducing AI progressively and responsibly.

Asia’s local currency bond markets, led by Greater China, give sovereigns, supranationals and agencies cheaper funding from new investors and will grow.

Emirates NBD has shortened due diligence turnaround times by embedding AI-based document processing into live workflows, backed by human review and data lineage.