TAB Africa Weekly Brief: African institutions diversified funding sources this week, with TDB, Rwanda and South Africa securing new facilities as SARB overhauled national payment system governance.

TAB Middle East Weekly Brief: CBUAE opens urgent Banque Misr examination, Saudi deposit growth outpaces credit and Qatar's economy contracts.

Risk and Capital Weekly: Swiss committee proposes UBS capital compromise, FDIC defeats SVB parent's claim, FSB flags frontier-AI cyber risk

Transaction Finance Weekly: UOB and HSBC complete tokenised deposit transactions, RBC unifies transaction banking and TD tests Agorá.

Wealth and Society tracks a week of consolidation in asset management and adviser infrastructure, as Victory Capital agrees a $7 billion deal for First Eagle Investments, Vanguard moves to acquire Altruist and SBI Holdings takes a stake in Jakarta's Ajaib Group.

CIMB’s second-quarter net profit rose 2.6%, while asset growth and client income helped cushion narrower margins. Wholesale banking accounted for 42% of first-half profit before tax as loans expanded, although the division’s operating income remained broadly flat and higher provision writebacks accounted for most of its profit increase.

Maybank’s second-quarter net profit rose 2.4% as stronger fees and lower impairment charges narrowed the first-half decline. Wealth fees and current and savings account deposits extended the gains identified at FY2025, while credit-cost normalisation and planned full ownership of Etiqa change the earnings and capital picture under ROAR30.

The Asian Banker Weekly Brief: Warsh reshapes Fed guidance, Treasury targets Banque Misr, China's banks post profit gains and rate hikes continue in Korea and Philippines.

Mobile banking development cycles fall from more than a year under traditional waterfall processes to only weeks as cloud infrastructure, modular architecture, configurable products and smaller teams reduce hand-offs and rework. But faster development does not always mean faster launches, as testing, security, data readiness, certification, partner coordination and customer adoption can still slow delivery.

Financial Technology Weekly: Sacombank reports performance and infrastructure gains from its hybrid-cloud core upgrade, while ANZ cuts customer scam losses in Australia by 24% year-on-year through payment warnings and fraud controls.

Financial Markets Weekly: Vanguard, Wellington test tokenised collateral; CIMB settles $343m tokenised sukuk; Coinbase launches tokenised US stocks.

CIMB has moved Malaysia’s tokenisation experiments beyond the digital representation of securities by using tokenised commercial bank deposits to settle MYR 1.38 billion ($343 million) of tokenised sukuk. The pilot coordinated the securities and payment legs on a single ledger, establishing the capability for atomic settlement while interoperability, secondary-market liquidity and the economics of operating digital infrastructure remain to be tested.

This year’s awards recognise CTBC Bank’s strengths across retail, wealth management, transaction banking and custody, E.SUN Bank’s combination of SME banking leadership and retail and sustainability innovation and Cathay United Bank’s advances in AI, cloud technology and digital services.

TAB Africa Weekly Brief: MTN's fintech transactions hit $330.5 billion, Afreximbank profit rises 30%, Equity Group expands regional lending further.

Retail Finance Weekly: GXBank expands lending via TNG eWallet, Zip Co posts record BNPL profit, Experian adds ChatGPT credit scores.