Significant risks to asset quality and profitability persist for banks in the region as start of COVID-19 vaccination may not ensure sustained and even economic recovery
The chief executives of DBS Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and Microsoft discuss the impact of technological transformation and COVID-19 on the future of the financial services industry
The World Bank expects growth in emerging markets and developing economies in East Asia and Pacific to rebound to 7.4% in 2021 as the pandemic subsides with more widespread COVID-19 vaccination. However, should there be a protraction of the health crisis, it may heighten financial stress, and precipitate a sharper- and longer-than-expected contraction in global trade compounded by re-escalating trade tensions.
Lisa O’Connor, Head of Capital Markets Strategy at SWIFT discusses how the global provider of secure financial messaging services is delivering infrastructure that will help the world of payments and securities adapt, thrive and grow in a competitive landscape
The bank created a strong digital active client base from its acquisition of Diamond Bank which had a large retail portfolio and strong digital platform.
Despite fierce competition from its local South African peers and some Nigerian banks, Absa emerged as the Best Retail Bank in Africa
Standard Chartered Ghana outperformed major local rivals such as Stanbic Bank and Fidelity Bank in areas such as digital, customer experience, and risk management to win best retail bank in Ghana in 2020. While lacking market competitiveness in its product stack in Ghana, it was voted among the best retail banks in digital channels in Africa and among the most helpful retail banks in its COVID-19 response in the BankQuality Africa Customer Survey
In this RadioFinance session, Emmanuel Daniel spoke with Bikram Chaudhury, a veteran in investment banking, about his current initiative to run a startup which aims to expand credit facilities to inclusive borrowers and the base of the pyramid populations through its proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) lending platform. He clearly explained the issues of the microfinance industry and the significant movements of different players during the pandemic in both developed and emerging markets today.
Tokopedia and Gojek are reportedly in merger discussion ahead of a planned public listing in Indonesia and the United States
Serra Wei, founder and CEO of Taiwan-based Aegis Custody, discusses the market potential of digitalised trade account receivables as an alternative investment asset class and what the company is doing to make it accessible to investors worldwide, including high net-worth individuals and family offices.
Recent sale of negative yield bonds by Chinese government seen as part of a cyclical trend given historical low interest rates, with negligible impact on corporate issuers
Customers decide which banks in the Africa region stood out from the rest and were most helpful during COVID-19 following the result of the BankQuality Consumer Survey and Rankings for 2020
Li Yong, general manager of custody services at ICBC, discusses the development of its custody business in response to the fast-growing and changing asset management industry.
Zhang Bin, chief information officer at Ping An Bank, discusses the bank’s digital transformation, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to drive improvement in business performance and the second tipping point of intelligent technology that will enable integrated finance
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