The findings of this research would be invaluable for decision makers in product and business development, marketing and sales, and those in organisations who intend to build their businesses in the Asia Pacific region.
The global boom of crowdlending illustrates how consumers are quickly turning to fintech. In 2015, the crowdlending industry posted over $100 billion in loan issuances, the bulk of which originated from China. The first country in the Asia Pacific to establish crowdlending platforms, China now mobilises more than Europe, which pioneered crowdlending, and the United States combined. Incumbent banks have caught wind of the crowdlending phenomenon and are starting to dip their toes into this industry as either a collaborator or a competitor.
As financial institutions are currently focusing on the execution of their IFRS 9 program and solution integration, risk and finance teams are working together to anticipate their effect on the financial reports.
The cyber hacking and illegal money transfer incident that involved the central bank of Bangladesh brings up serious questions about data and network security as well as the effectiveness of anti-money laundering compliance measures.
This ranking defines the relative strength of the banks in the database of the 500 largest banks in Asia Pacific region by assets. Asian Banker Research has developed over several years a Strength Scorecard that ranks banks in six areas: scale, balance sheet growth, risk profile, profitability asset, quality and liquidity.
This teleconsultation discusses the evolution of the U.S. Federal Reserve System’s stress test program since 2009, targets for the quality and level of capital needed by banks, the role of bank supervisors in setting those targets and requiring action to achieve them, and high-level findings and “lessons learned” by the Federal Reserve in this ongoing supervisory process.
The common perception is bigger institutions have higher standards of security protection. However, security breaches are making headlines these days, not in the smaller institutions that expectedly are more vulnerable, but in the world’s largest companies. Paradoxically, in the cybersecurity world, an institution’s better security standing may be the very reason that it is targeted.
Shinhan Bank has launched Korea’s first full service biometric-enabled and unmanned smart digital kiosks that allow customers to do financial transactions without the need to visit a physical branch.
The impossible has happened. Britain has decided to part ways with Europe. After the initial shocks, what does it mean for the global banking and financial industry?
Banks have woken up and moved the digitisation agenda into boardroom discussions!
Emmanuel Daniel, chairman of The Asian Banker, challenges banks to give up their traditional notion of core banking during the Huawei Connect Summit 2016 in Shanghai, China.
Rapid advances in technology are increasingly changing the way people interact today. The same can be said for financial services providers and their customers. With customer satisfaction taking centre stage, are banks, especially those in emerging markets, keeping up with shifting customer expectations and optimising customer interaction channels? Are banks responding to the latest customer demands and anticipating their future needs?
Banks in Asia’s mature markets beat rising costs, deteriorating credit quality and higher interest rates, focusing on digital experiences, GenAI, green finance and fraud prevention
Islamic banks in Saudi Arabia display exceptional financial strength, with Al Rajhi Bank maintaining its position as the largest and strongest Islamic bank worldwide.
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