Petri Nikkilä, executive vice president and head of strategy and segments at Nordea Bank, discusses how the bank is leveraging technology to strategically transform the relationship banking concept.

The Asian Banker in partnership with Deutsche Bank organised a series of “Live Insight” interviews with heads of transaction banking from a number of leading banks in Asia Pacific on issues that are transforming the industry and their businesses – In this video we look at the “Changing relationships between financial institutions”

The Asian Banker in partnership with Deutsche Bank organised a series of “Live Insight” interviews with heads of transaction banking from a number of leading banks in Asia Pacific on issues that are transforming the industry and their businesses – In this video we look at “Transforming the business”

The Asian Banker in partnership with Deutsche Bank organised a series of “Live Insight” interviews with heads of transaction banking from a number of leading banks in Asia Pacific on issues that are transforming the industry and their businesses – In this video we look at “Developments shaping the business”

Financial institutions are starting to use APIs to create important linkages between their products and services and their customers and important third party value providers. Early movers to stand to gain mindshare of both customers and the wider application developer community.

Robotics, enabled by artificial intelligence and machine learning, is proving to be a game changer that can bring unique operational efficiencies to the financial services industry.

The Asian Banker in partnership with Deutsche Bank organised a series of “Live Insight” interviews with heads of transaction banking from a number of leading banks in Asia Pacific on issues that are transforming the industry and their businesses

Fintech, the latest buzzword in the peer-to-peer lending sector, has carved a niche for itself in a short span of time. As banks tighten their seat belts for the new-age disruption, they are showing strong affinity towards collaboration with the marketplace lenders to secure their customer proposition.

Takeshi Ohashi, general manager and head of Mizuho Bank’s global transaction banking business shares his views on the challenges of expanding its international operations in the midst of the current economic and trade slowdown.

Mobile payments are expected to surge in the next few years, driven by technology and analytics. However, banks are facing tough challenges from non-bank competitors offering more attractive services.

Eddie Chau, co-founder and chairman of V-Key, a start-up that is looking at making the digital space a more secure environment for financial services transactions, talks about the company’s solutions and growth plan.

Having recently spent time with some 40 Vietnamese bankers at a fintech workshop as part of "The Future of Finance Vietnam, 2017" by The Asian Banker, David Gyori discusses the differences that he sees between bankers from the West and East in their attitude towards fintechs.

On 13th January 2018, the new European Directive on Payment Services “(EU) 2015/2366” comes into application. With just under a year to go, financial services providers are gearing up for change. What will be ‘PSD2’‘s immediate effect and longer-term impact on the payments market?

DBS Group’s retail and wealth business has been accelerating income generation since 2013. However, the bank continues to face an uphill struggle with some of its overseas retail markets.

Customised financial advice had, for many years, been available almost exclusively to private banking clients or to the mass affluent. However, robo-advisors are offering the same advice to many more consumers. Customers in Asia, from the man on the street to the ultra-wealthy, seem ready to embrace these new robo-advisors.