Amid a sluggish auto market, Kasikorn Leasing expanded its leadership in auto financing and strengthened its digital capabilities, supported by synergy with Kasikornbank. Its comprehensive value chain coverage and digital innovations have delivered resilient profitability, and strong credit quality.

Following the successful integration of Citibank’s consumer banking business, UOB Thailand is reshaping its retail banking strategy by focusing on cross-product growth, digital engagement and SME lifecycle support.

Kasikornbank’s Home to Cash has emerged as one of the secured loan innovations in Thailand, combining term loans and overdraft features into a single, flexible facility. Backed by strong digital integration, real-time approvals and a clear customer-centric philosophy, it has driven record portfolio growth, increased market share and established the bank as a top-tier player in the home equity loan space.

Vietnam Maritime Commercial Joint Stock Bank has embraced core and engagement banking modernisation, open-source DevOps, and AI readiness to drive digital agility and competitiveness in one of Southeast Asia’s fastest growing banking markets.

Barb Morgan, chief product and technology officer at Temenos, outlines how the company is aligning its technology roadmap with clients’ evolving expectations by building fewer but better products, investing in co-innovation and enabling faster time-to-value through AI, modularity and agile delivery.

The 2025 ASEAN Conference outlined a coordinated strategy to strengthen ASEAN’s economic independence by mobilising regional capital, aligning public and private institutions, and building long-term cross-border industrial capacity.

At The Asian Banker Future of Finance China Summit 2025, held in Beijing on 26 June, Sabino Fornies Martinez, minister counsellor and head of trade section at the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to China, called for a strategic rebalancing of global capital flows and greater financial cooperation between Europe and China.

In his keynote at the 2025 The Asian Banker Future of Finance China Summit, held on 26 June in Beijing, Robert Koopman— former Chief Economist of the World Trade Organization and Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer at American University— discussed the structural shifts reshaping global trade and finance.

As Timor-Leste looks to join ASEAN in October 2025, BNCTL under its new CEO, Marcelo da Cruz Carvalho, outlines its strategic transformation to support financial inclusion, digitisation and cross-border cooperation.

Private wealth is surging across Asia, but most of it remains idle despite rising social needs. AVPN’s ImpactCollab platform aims to integrate philanthropy into wealth management conversations by offering a structured, data-informed environment for giving.

Professor He Ping of Tsinghua University explains why China must resist short-term stimulus, reform its regulatory system and innovate responsibly to support long-term economic transformation, while guarding against systemic risks and global shocks such as the devaluation of the dollar.

At the 2025 The Asian Banker Future of Finance China Summit, held on 26 June in Beijing, five distinguished keynote speakers from academia, government and international organisations addressed a world in flux.

Senior banking and payments leaders in Hong Kong gathered at a roundtable discussion to examine how the financial services industry can navigate the new landscape of cross-border payments.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) [ICBC (Asia)] and Bank of China (Hong Kong) [BOCHK] received recognitions for their outstanding performance and excellence in the asset custody services and wealth management businesses, respectively.

Given the US administration's shifting tariff policies, many global manufacturers may feel apprehensive about their growth prospects. Uncertainty in trade dynamics often affects firms reliant on global trade flows. But in Wenzhou, one of China's most fertile entrepreneurial hubs, businesses transform US tariff pressures into opportunities, ensuring enterprises thrive across generations.