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.

Techcombank is upgrading a core platform that has fallen seven releases behind as it expands across banking, securities and insurance, but the larger transformation will come after migration as it decides what should remain in the core and what can move into more flexible data, pricing and customer services.

Temenos CEO Takis Spiliopoulos says banks are becoming more disciplined about the cost and returns from AI, while exploring whether the technology can reduce implementation and upgrade effort and change the economics that have made core modernisation slow, expensive and risky.

Financial Markets Weekly: Institutions globally advanced tokenisation and cross-border settlement infrastructure this week, as Broadridge scaled its $351 billion repo platform and China enforced variation-margin rules.

BPI president and CEO Jose Teodoro “TG” Limcaoco is seeking to reduce the bank’s historical dependence on institutional lending by growing consumer and SME businesses faster, while higher credit costs and a weaker economic environment are testing the economics of that shift.

Retail Finance Weekly: Banks and fintechs globally deepened embedded and digital-asset finance this week, as Affirm re-entered Australia and Better-Coinbase launched Bitcoin-backed mortgages.