Mark Monaco leads Bank of America’s global payments and transaction banking transformation through technology, innovation and a long-term focus on clients.

CIBC’s ranking as the world’s ninth strongest bank and North America’s third strongest in the TAB Global 1000 World’s Strongest Banks 2026 is supported by improving profitability, strong asset quality and balance-sheet resilience.

BNY's Fabian Khoshbakht said the bank can already move traditional fiat around the clock within its own infrastructure, but end-to-end availability still depends on local payment systems. Digital money could extend 24/7 liquidity management further as traditional and new rails develop alongside each other.

Financial Markets Weekly: Hong Kong prices $2.6 billion digital green bonds using tokenised deposits, Coinbase wins CFTC clearing approval and DTCC invests in iCapital; Capitolis buys eSecLending for $200 million.

TAB Africa Weekly Brief: S&P cuts Mozambique to CCC on Eurobond restructuring risk, Nigeria's yields fall after CBN cuts rates to 23% and Angola raises AOA 208.5 billion selling Standard Bank de Angola stake.

Chulalongkorn University and KBank's CU NEX, launched in 2018, unifies campus services and embeds finance, healthcare, AI assistant NEXKY and student-built tools into one digital application for the university community.

Retail Finance Weekly: Nubank explores Monzo acquisition, Revolut wins Banco Cetelem Argentina approval and China bars non-bank payment institutions listing loans.

Standard Chartered's Sofia Hammoucha said corporate clients increasingly want banks to address resilience across financing, payments, liquidity, custody and supply chains rather than discuss trade products in isolation. The change is broadening the trade and working capital conversation and putting greater emphasis on speed, digital scale and liquidity.

Banks are experimenting with artificial intelligence at very different speeds, but SmartStream's Nicholas Smith said their common requirement is governance. As trading hours lengthen and operational data grows more complex, the firm is using orchestration, agentic AI and tighter data controls to move automation into production without requiring banks to replace legacy systems first.

SMBC built its new US cash management portal with continuous input from 50 corporate clients. Early users are sending more wire payments, higher transaction values and more deposits through the bank, while the next phase will add direct system connectivity, AI-supported controls and a more consistent global treasury experience.

SMBC's Priyamvada Singh said corporate clients increasingly want financing combined with working-capital efficiency, supply-chain transparency and technology. The bank is looking to connect trade more closely with cash management, data and financing relationships across clients' supply chains and project lifecycles.

TAB Middle East Weekly Brief: Qatar's $3 billion bond draws $7.7 billion in orders as UAE restricts Bank Melli Iran branches.

Mortgage finance has become highly sophisticated at measuring borrower risk. Credit scores, debt-to-income and loan-to-value ratios, mortgage insurance and capital requirements all ask how likely the borrower is to repay. Banks and mortgage lenders should also ask a related question: can reducing the homeowner’s concentration risk make the borrower a safer counterparty?

Transaction Finance Weekly: Swift's pay-by-alias framework, FedNow's cross-border leg, BNY's Pay-to-Wallet and JP Morgan-Thunes expand cross-border payments; Citi extends tokenised liquidity.

Sibos 2026's opening plenary tied tokenised money, AI and always-on payments to one question: how to link new capabilities to today's global system without weakening liquidity, controls, resilience or trust.