TAB Africa Weekly Brief: Standard Bank and Absa post stronger first-half earnings, AFC raises $2.5 billion for Dangote's refinery and CHF 350 million via digital bond, and Nigeria opens a new fintech regulatory sandbox.

This year’s awards recognised Thai financial institutions strengthening retail banking, payments, financial inclusion, corporate treasury and customer ecosystems through integrated digital platforms and more connected operating models.

TAB Middle East Weekly Brief: Commercial Bank of Dubai launches multi-bank payment initiation, UAE banking assets grow 17.1% to $1.44 trillion and Coinbase secures Abu Dhabi tokenisation hub approval.

Transaction Finance Weekly: Citi backs $4.6 billion Japan-US power deal, China expands RMB cash pooling and South Korea commits KRW 5 trillion to semiconductor suppliers.

Tommy Leung, head of HSBC Private Bank South Asia, discusses how HSBC Private Bank is combining private banking and corporate and investment banking capabilities to address entrepreneurs’ personal wealth, operating business and succession needs.

Wealth & Society rounds up a week of record results, new product launches and cross-border partnerships, with BTG Pactual posting record profit, China Merchants Bank topping $2.65 trillion in retail assets and Standard Chartered expanding its gold income offering.

Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: Banco do Brasil's agribusiness delinquencies climb, Swiss lawmakers defer UBS's CET1 capital proposal, China's NPL ratio edges up and ABN AMRO's NIBC acquisition trims CET1 headroom.

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% and Bank of America takes a stake in Jio Credit.

Gulf banks saw earnings momentum weaken in the first half of 2026 as slower revenue growth, narrower margins and higher provisions offset resilient credit quality. Emirates NBD, Kuwait Finance House and Qatar National Bank outperformed, while the Iran conflict amplified differences across markets and raised the stakes for loan growth, funding and credit costs in the second half of the year.

Financial Technology Weekly: CBA puts a AUD200 million value on AI benefits, APRA penalises Bendigo Bank over cyber accountability failures, RBI demands AI model inventories from banks and IBM partners with OpenAI on enterprise deployment.

TAB China Weekly Brief: China's exports surge 23.9% on tech demand, the PBOC unveils a five-year policy framework, Chinese banks issue RMB1.3 trillion in capital bonds and CXMT overtakes ICBC and Tencent in market value.

As Thailand’s auto finance market contracts and demand shifts toward electric vehicles, KLeasing is using digital origination, automated servicing and KBank’s distribution network to improve efficiency and generate revenue beyond loan origination.

This year’s awards recognised Philippine banks that are strengthening retail, SME and transaction banking through digital capabilities, integrated platforms and scalable operating models.

Jose Teodoro “TG” Limcaoco’s leadership has expanded BPI’s scale, strengthened operating efficiency and advanced its digital transformation, earning him the Best Bank CEO in the Philippines award and BPI recognition as the Best Managed Bank in the Philippines.

Financial Markets Weekly: NVIDIA partners with six investment groups to mobilise $500 billion for AI infrastructure, Goldman Sachs agrees to acquire NEOS Investments for up to $2.25 billion and Nasdaq buys LeveL Markets.