TAB Middle East Weekly Brief: Central Bank of Libya's governor resigns, the World Bank approves $100 million for Syria's financial-sector modernisation, Egypt's financial inclusion rate reaches 79%, and Standard Chartered flags expanding Islamic-finance corridors.

Transaction Finance Weekly: Wells Fargo launches tokenised deposits for corporate clients, Deutsche Bank gains direct RMB clearing in Frankfurt, Klarna goes live on JP Morgan Payments' US platform, and Maybank Singapore joins MAS's programmable settlement initiative.

Wealth and Society tracks a week of record wealth growth and major asset-management deals, led by record results from DBS and OCBC, and UOB's agreement to sell its asset manager to Allianz Global Investors.

Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: RBI proposes a G-SIB leverage buffer, the Fed launches a private-credit risk survey, UOB sells its asset-management unit and HSBC resumes buybacks as banks recalibrate capital and lending.

Scaling AI in banking depends on trusted data, proportionate governance and skilled people. As adoption expands, banks need to embed controls into daily workflows while building the capabilities to use AI effectively and responsibly.

The Asian Banker Weekly Brief: China expands currency swaps with Malaysia and Argentina, Singapore banks grow fee income as margins narrow, Westpac mortgage applications fall 20% and MUFG's profit rises 48%.

DBS sees growth opportunities across Asian capital markets, wealth and intra-Asian trade, with Taiwan and India among its key markets as technology and AI help scale its regional franchise.

Europe’s largest banks by country showed surprising resilience in the first half of 2026, with broad-based growth across their business segments. UBS, Barclays and BNP Paribas stood out, although part of their results were boosted by corporate-centre gains, treasury performance and exceptional items. Strong earnings prompted several banks to raise their full-year guidance and reconsider mergers and acquisitions

Financial Markets Weekly: Intercontinental Exchange agrees $5.7 billion MarketAxess acquisition as BlackRock expands tokenised money-market fund access in Europe via JPMorgan's Kinexys platform.

RHB PAY brings payment acceptance, settlement and reconciliation under the bank's control as RHB seeks to capture more merchant transaction flows and deepen its transaction-banking relationships.

Retail Finance Weekly: HSBC exits Australian and Egyptian retail banking through sales to Blackstone and Emirates NBD, while Visa agrees to acquire BioCatch for $2.4 billion to strengthen fraud defences.

TAB Africa Weekly Brief: CRDB Bank posts a 20.3% profit rise as Nedbank advances its NCBA Group acquisition and S&P Global agrees to buy a majority stake in Agusto & Co.

As Thai businesses shift further from cash and cheques into electronic payments, Krungthai Bank is using virtual accounts to address a problem that digital payments alone do not solve: how companies identify, reconcile and control money once it arrives.

Data from 25 of the world’s largest banks by assets across regions shows that leading institutions are not only accelerating existing work but also building the capacity to serve more customers, process higher volumes of activity and grow revenue without increasing resources at the same pace.

As foreign exchange (FX) markets fragment across platforms, currencies and regulatory regimes, Kasikornbank is expanding its FX and capital markets proposition through digital channels that connect FX services with business banking, trade finance and treasury workflows. These channels unify pricing, distribution and post-trade workflows for corporates, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and financial institutions.