Regulated digital money is shifting from trials to early production as major banks including HSBC, JP Morgan and Standard Chartered move towards interoperable, compliant settlement systems operating alongside existing rails.

Tuan Nguyen, group chief information officer (CIO) of Techcombank, explained how a cloud-first strategy, multi-year platform modernisation and delivery discipline reshaped the bank’s technology foundations over its first five-year transformation cycle and set the operating conditions for the next phase.

As China enters the longevity era, high-net-worth (HNW) families are demanding more than wealth management. Taikang Family Office has responded by building an integrated finance + services ecosystem, combining wealth, health, succession and family governance into a single life-cycle solution for long-term family needs.

Riverchain is applying proprietary data and technology and disciplined underwriting to construction supply chain finance, addressing a long-standing liquidity and risk imbalance.

As global wealth becomes increasingly mobile, wealth managers face rising execution risks from regulatory fragmentation, geopolitical uncertainty and intergenerational complexity. WRISE Group executive chairman Derrick Tan explains how governance design, regional leadership and technology are being used to scale across Asia and the Middle East without fragmenting control.

For many countries today, the core economic question is no longer how to grow faster, but how to grow smarter, as labour is aging, capital is more expensive, supply chains are less predictable, and technology is moving faster than institutions.

As institutional engagement with tokenisation deepens across Asia, financial institutions are testing what it takes to operate safely as activity scales. Yvonne Ng, vice president for Asia Pacific at Elliptic, examines how banks and regulators are strengthening identity assurance and cross-chain risk visibility to support the next phase of tokenised finance.

Endowus is positioning its Hong Kong business around a different understanding of wealth, liquidity and incentives, adapting a fee-only fiduciary model to a market shaped by property concentration, capital constraints and widening inequality.

The UK’s development finance arm, British International Investment, is scaling its presence in Southeast Asia through platform-building, patient capital and early-stage risk-taking, aiming to mobilise private investment into one of the region’s most under-funded climate-transition markets.

VPBank completed the migration from its existing core banking system to the latest release of Temenos Core on the Red Hat OpenShift container platform, reinforcing its ability to scale, innovate and prepare for an AI- ready future

The RMB Internationalisation Report 2025 highlights accelerating global adoption of the renminbi, supported by sustained growth in trade settlement, financing and investment. Core findings include:

Abdelaal led Mashreq’s digital transformation, with Neo platforms delivering full banking functionality directly to customers’ devices.

Junaidi spearheaded the development of Bank Mandiri’s Livin’ and Kopra retail and corporate platforms, modernising services and boosting transaction volumes.

China Merchants Bank and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China led the winners at the Wealth and Society Awards 2025, where ten leading wealth management institutions were recognised for excellence in private banking, family succession, entrepreneur services and philanthropy.

Dimon’s enduring leadership at JPMorgan Chase has set a global standard for resilience, performance and long-term strategic vision in banking.