Grab Holdings Limited will make Indonesian digital lender Superbank a subsidiary after Singtel transfers its stake to GXS Bank and lifts Grab’s effective ownership above 50%, expanding its financial services footprint in Southeast Asia.

HBL CTO Faisal Anwar believes large-scale banking transformation increasingly depends on whether incumbent institutions can modernise continuously while keeping customer operations, payments and resilience environments running live at scale.

RHB's integration of anti-money laundering and fraud management, combined with an SME cyber self-assessment tool, points to a broader challenge: financial crime defence increasingly depends not only on bank-side controls, but on how well institutions can help customers address the operational weak points scammers exploit.

The macroeconomic outlook for 2026 remains uncertain, with both the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) revising downward their growth forecasts for the Eurozone amid rising geopolitical risks.

Techcombank is investing in centralised AI governance and a modular agent platform designed to transform its software development lifecycle. Tran Hoang Quan, chief technology officer of Techcombank, discusses the bank's approach to AI governance, data architecture, hallucination mitigation and productivity outcomes.

Tan Su Shan, chief executive officer of DBS Bank, and Gan Kim Yong, Singapore’s deputy prime minister and minister for trade and industry, set out how Singapore is trying to turn institutional trust into a practical advantage for AI finance.

As global transaction flows become more fragmented and operationally complex, transaction banks are being asked to do more than execute payments and financing. Increasingly, institutional clients expect them to help navigate complexity itself.

Trust Bank’s first profitable month in March 2026 is an important milestone, but the more meaningful question is whether it signals that digital banking economics in mature markets are finally becoming sustainable or whether success still depends on structural advantages that many digital challengers do not have.

As treasury operating environments become faster, more fragmented and more deeply embedded in business workflows, the focus is shifting from incremental efficiency towards real-time decision-making, integrated execution and trusted orchestration.

I&M Bank is expanding access to retail and SME banking in Kenya through a digital-led strategy supported by a hybrid distribution model. The approach is designed to deepen its integration into the country’s mobile money-driven financial ecosystem and widen access to everyday banking services.

HSBC has established a $4 billion Sustainability and Transition Credit Facility in mainland China to provide financing to eligible companies in clean power, transport electrification, data centres and artificial intelligence as they seek to expand internationally.

United Overseas Bank, Deutsche Bank and Vietcombank were recognised at the TAB Global Business Achievement Awards 2026 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Titan Chia, Chief Information and Technology Officer at CTBC Bank, was awarded Chief Information and Technology Officer of the Year at the TAB Global Financial Technology Leadership Achievement Awards. With nearly two decades of technology leadership, he has played a key role in advancing the bank’s digital strategy and shaping the future of financial technology in Taiwan.

The TAB Global Business Achievement Awards 2026 honoured leading institutions for excellence in global transaction banking, payments, and trade and supply chain finance. The awards recognised organisations that advanced innovation, technology and client service across the global financial services industry.

At The Asian Banker Summit 2026, Minister for Digital Gobind Singh Deo argued that Malaysia’s AI ambitions require more than investment attraction. They require governments and industries to change how they operate. The country’s third phase of MyDIGITAL is being built around that premise.