Regtech companies find vast opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region despite the unique regulatory compliance challenges. One such company is the UK-based ComplyAdvantage, which recently set up its office in Singapore. Company CEO Charles Delingpole shares details of their products and what his company can offer to the region

Bridging financing gap across three countries, Funding Societies/Modalku’s machine learning based risk assessment model, partnership ecosystem and range of loan services facilitated it to grow exponentially disbursing $613 Million loans within three years.

Hang Seng Bank tops the ranking in Asia Pacific for this year’s The Asian Banker Strongest Banks By Balance Sheet, which is the most comprehensive annual evaluation that captures the quality and sustainability of the balance sheets of the banks in the Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa regions.

As Chinese banks continue to dominate the list of largest banks, others in Asia Pacific face mounting pressure to sustain performance

As the role of corporate treasury evolves beyond its traditional core functions of cash and liquidity management, banks are making substantial investments into new technologies to simplify corporate to multi-bank connectivity.

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Benjamin E. Diokno presents an overall positive account pertaining to the country’s economic and financial growth. He pinpoints the extensive use of fintech as a way to accelerate financial inclusion in the Philippines and recognises the importance of driving investments that promote sustainable growth.

On 1 January 2020, the new Swiss Financial Services Act will have a profound effect on the business activities of Asian financial service providers with clients in Switzerland. The public distribution of financial instruments will also be subject to more extensive prospectus requirements.

The age of e-commerce, big tech, social media and fintech has dawned on Asia and Thailand is at the epicentre of this wave of industry disruption

Ji Sung Kyu, CEO of KEB Hana Bank, is committed to go global and digital. He shared the bank’s main strategies and discussed the global loyalty network service, one of the bank’s current strengths. He also talked about partnership with fintech companies and other banks as well as intention to cost-cut domestically and enlarge customer base globally.

Banks are moving away from the gloomy outlook that previously reigned in the financial world. In The Asian Banker Future of Finance “Risk and Regulation” conference, regulatory transformation, rise of blockchain technology and open banking collaborations were pointed out as the key factors in enhancing the banking industry

As the trade conflict between the US and China continues to rumble on, there appear to be more losers than winners. Worse, we could all be losers, according to the key panellists of Future of Finance Summit Day 1 closing session: Fallout of US-China Trade War

We look at some of the critical issues and developments confronting financial institutions (FIs) that will be discussed at SWIFT’s annual conference in London, United Kingdom, this year

Managing regulatory expectations and centralisation and integration of processes using bank-agnostic solutions were hotly discussed topics in this year’s Asian Banker Future of Finance session on ‘Global Transactions Finance Re-invented’

Between 2019 to 2022, banks will launch full digital banking blueprints, making more structural changes at the back office to tap fully into a rapidly growing consumer banking market

Vietnam is likely to emerge as a significant consumer-driven market, placing it in the Asian consuming class of Indonesia and the Philippines with a gross domestic product (GDP) per capita between $2,800-$3,500 by 2020, in which mass automobile ownership takes off.