Sustainable Finance Weekly: NextEra's $1.9 billion nuclear restart, Sonnedix's $1.3 billion Chile refinancing, Suniva's $835 million solar expansion and Yara's carbon-capture launch.

Leading Chinese banks delivered stronger earnings growth in the first half of 2026 (1H2026), but weaker loan demand, rising credit costs and continued pressure on asset yields kept returns under pressure.

Financial Technology Weekly: OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services with Morgan Stanley and Evercore, Ant International expands AMP, Meta's Muse links bank accounts via Plaid.

TAB China Weekly Brief: China injects RMB 360 billion into ICBC ABC and five insurers approves CICC's merger with Dongxing and Cinda Securities

Financial Markets Weekly: REC completes India's first tokenised bond pilot with RBI wholesale CBDC settlement as Standard Chartered launches UAE crypto trading.

TAB Africa Weekly Brief: Dangote Refinery launches $1.62 billion IPO to fund $14.3 billion expansion as AfDB unveils $5.1 billion crisis response.

Retail Finance Weekly: Chime buys Stride Bank, EverBank and WaFd merge, ANZ migrates Suncorp customers, Bank of Thailand moves to license BNPL.

HSBC Singapore’s Ishan Sarkar said the bank’s inaugural Global Affluent Report showed that investors trusted artificial intelligence for research but relied on human advisers to make final decisions, reshaping what wealth managers offer clients.

Malaysian banks' net profit was broadly flat in the first half of 2026 (1H2026), but their core lending businesses did not drive the result. Retail banking profit fell or stalled at most large groups, while corporate banking profit was likely flat. Treasury and markets income, wealth management and fund management provided most of the growth. Hong Leong Bank and Alliance Bank were the clearest exceptions, with broad-based operating strength.

As traditional transaction banking products become more commoditised, Deutsche Bank sees new sources of growth emerging around data-driven services, embedded treasury, new payment rails and working-capital solutions. Tsvetanka Nankova argues that banks will need to turn transaction data into decision intelligence while retaining the advantages of regulated balance sheets and trust and partnering where others can extend their capabilities.

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.