TAB Middle East Weekly Brief: FAB completes tokenised dollar transactions with Citi, Qatar joins AFAQ, and Saudi Arabia raises $3.25 billion through sukuk.

Transaction Finance Weekly: Citi and HSBC advance Swift-ledger payments, OFSI fines Citi and ByteDance secures a $29.6 billion loan.

Risk and Capital Weekly: China’s state banks bolster capital, APRA tightens controls at ING Australia, RBI moves to drain surplus liquidity

The Asian Banker Weekly Brief: Global bond yields surge to multi-year highs, India’s special FX facility draws $136.4 billion, Chinese financial institutions announce capital-raising plans totalling $53.6 billion and Bathla’s collapse exposes liquidity risks across more than 40 lenders.

Wealth and Society tracks 10 developments in global wealth management, from new booking centres in Singapore and Dubai to a landmark partnership between Schroders and ttb in Thailand and continued consolidation among independent advisers in North America.

Real-time payments, new trade corridors and supply-chain diversification are reshaping institutional cash, liquidity and trade flows across Asia Pacific. Sebastien Avot argues that Deutsche Bank’s regional advantage lies in connecting payments, liquidity, trade, FX and risk capabilities across markets as financial institutions and corporate treasurers navigate an increasingly fragmented operating environment.

Cloud and AI are changing what banks can build. The harder challenge is creating an operating model that allows products, data and infrastructure to evolve continuously without weakening resilience, control or trust with customers and regulators.

Singapore’s banks turned to non-interest income as margins compressed in the first half of 2026 (1H2026), but the earnings cushion was uneven. OCBC’s broader revenue mix supported stronger profit growth, while UOB’s experience showed that wealth expansion alone could not make up for weaker net interest income.

Nanovest's CX-Risk Signal Governance framework transforms customer interactions, chatbot behaviour and service workflows into a unified system for detecting and resolving operational, fraud, regulatory and artificial intelligence (AI)-related risks.

Sustainable Finance Weekly: Europe extends its green bond lead as China expands carbon markets and ESG reporting rules tighten.

Financial Technology Weekly: Deutsche Bank consolidates core systems as TD and CMB scale AI while regulators flag cyber-resilience risks.

TAB China Weekly Brief: China tightens property financing with lead-bank oversight while expanding SME credit subsidies, private-fund disclosures, and cross-border e-CNY payment infrastructure this week.

Chairman Wang Dufu outlines ICBC-AXA Life ’s expansion strategy, financial performance and long-term ambition to scale assets and customer reach as China’s insurance market deepens.

ICBC (Asia)’s custody business expanded in 2025 as assets, transactions and cross-border activity increased. Its platform combines China market connectivity, global sub-custody reach, fund administration, automation and risk controls, positioning the bank as a Hong Kong-based provider of institutional asset servicing amid changing custody, digital asset infrastructure and market expectations.

As China’s capital markets open further and its asset management industry expands, institutional investors are demanding more from custodians. Once centred on safekeeping, cash clearing and trade settlement, custody now increasingly encompasses asset servicing, risk management, data services, cross-border support and digital operations.