TAB Middle East Weekly Brief: Emirates NBD moved to acquire HSBC Egypt's retail banking business, UAE banking assets climbed to $1.53 trillion and Mashreq posted an 18% rise in first-half pre-tax profit.

Transaction Finance Weekly: Citi's new trade-finance platform, Lloyds' tokenised-deposit transactions through Project Agorá and Wise's direct connection to Malaysia's PayNet network.

International trade is steadily shifting from documentary trade towards open account trading, requiring banks to rethink how they assess risk and deliver financing. Runa Baksi explained how HSBC is redesigning trade finance around trusted commercial data, embedded finance and new digital operating models while preserving established risk principles.

Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: HKMA's new Quantum Preparedness Index shows early-stage readiness at Hong Kong banks, while Lombard Odier faces a CHF 3 million AML fine.

The Asian Banker Weekly Brief: Japan and the US jointly intervened to support the yen after the Bank of Japan held rates, as Standard Chartered raised guidance and China accelerated policy support.

As real-time payments become an increasingly important part of everyday financial activity, BDO Unibank is expanding its digital banking experience by making transactions more accessible and convenient for customers through BDO Pay. The mobile payment platform brings together payments, transfers and other banking services into a single experience, helping customers complete everyday financial needs with less time, cost and effort.

RCBC is using government disbursements and foreign-currency remittances as entry points to wider banking services. Lito Villanueva, Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation and Inclusion Officer at RCBC, discusses institutional distribution, digital onboarding and partnerships that connect payments with savings, credit and cross-border services.

OCBC’s latest AI deployment, HELIOS, moves due diligence ahead of the first client meeting, shortening private banking onboarding and enabling compliance teams to identify potential business leads for relationship managers.

Airwallex is using its licences, payment connectivity and deterministic APIs to position itself as financial infrastructure for the agentic economy. Timothy Wong, Global Vice President of Data and AI at Airwallex, explains what it takes to turn user instructions into secure financial transactions.

Rather than replacing correspondent banking with a single new technology, Standard Chartered believes the next phase of cross-border payments lies in integration within a common operating model. Naveen Mallela explains why interoperability, liquidity and operational certainty are becoming more important than simply building another payment rail.

Financial Market Weekly: DTCC's Treasury clearing readiness, BNY's launch of digital transfer agency for tokenised funds, Malaysia's record-tight $1.5 billion sukuk and HKEX's IPO listing reforms.

Indian lenders posted stronger first-half profits as lower loan provisions boosted earnings, but weak revenue growth and margin pressure point to a more challenging outlook.

TAB Africa Weekly Brief: Airtel Africa prepares a London listing for Airtel Money, South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana hold rates, and Angola's Banco de Fomento moves toward joining China's CIPS network.

Retail Finance Weekly: X launches X Money, Upstart secures a conditional bank charter, PayPal lifts payment volume to $486.4 billion, and DBS expands its AI assistant to nine million customers.

Bank Rakyat Indonesia is connecting retail customers, corporates, merchants and rural communities through BRImo, Qlola, BRI Merchant and BRILink, demonstrating how the country's largest banks are evolving into integrated financial ecosystems.