Financial Technology Weekly: Barclays expands Claude Code to modernise legacy systems, HSBC opens authorised banking data to clients' AI tools, Mastercard tests agent payment signals, and ASIC plans a review of banks' AI applications.

Mizuho Bank and the IFC have launched a $1 billion risk-sharing facility to expand supply chain finance for suppliers and distributors across Asia Pacific. The three-year programme gives Mizuho a way to share risk as it finances more of its corporate clients’ ecosystems. SAP connectivity is already live in Singapore, while the bank is also developing stablecoin, tokenised Japanese government bond, Swift ledger and AI initiatives as it builds out its regional connector strategy.

As companies redraw supply chains around resilience rather than lowest cost, ING is being asked to move financing programmes across markets, give treasurers a global view of liquidity and prepare for new forms of digital settlement. The shift is changing where the bank invests in transaction services, from liquidity infrastructure and artificial intelligence to tokenised deposits and a regulated euro stablecoin.

Sustainable Finance Weekly: NGFS outlines possible capital buffers for climate-concentrated lending, FCA adopts comply-or-explain reporting, Bank Negara Malaysia targets structuring barriers and DBS and ING underwrite a GBP 1.016 billion London refurbishment.

Bank of America has created dedicated paytech coverage as payment companies expand across markets and take on a larger role in moving money for other customers. Anand Natarajan said the model combines cross-border clearing access, regulatory and compliance expertise and selective fintech partnerships to support clients that increasingly operate across multiple payment rails.

As banks are leveraging regulatory and standards changes to replace ageing payment infrastructure rather than extend it again, Finastra is applying AI to shorten migrations, improve payment operations and make the business case for modernisation more measurable.

As small businesses become more willing to switch cross border payment providers, banks can combine their existing customer trust with Mastercard Move’s direct connectivity to payment infrastructures. A cross-currency pilot on TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) is testing whether fewer intermediaries can improve speed, transparency and settlement resilience.

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.