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.

At the Wealth and Society Forum 2025 in Shanghai, practitioners, academics and policymakers examined how intergenerational wealth succession and enterprise globalisation are being reshaped by legal complexity, economic uncertainty and the growing demands of cross-border governance.

Centre d’Art Rodin (Shanghai) and Nan Yi, Chairman and Founder of Universal Energy, were honoured at the Wealth and Society Awards 2025 for delivering measurable social impact through cultural institution-building and large-scale clean-energy development.

Al-Mogbel’s leadership at Al Rajhi Bank has strengthened market performance, advanced human capital development and driven sustainability and community impact initiatives.

Sim Tshabalala’s leadership at Standard Bank Group has strengthened the group’s regional influence, digital capabilities, operational resilience and sustainability.

Lubna Sulaiman Olayan, chair of Saudi Awwal Bank, receives the William “Bill” Seidman Lifetime Leadership Achievement Award for outstanding leadership in shaping modern banking, advancing professional governance and expanding social opportunity through leadership across finance, business and philanthropy, in Saudi Arabia.