Weekly Brief Jun 15, 2026 Italy's largest bank deal, Asian currency defence Intesa Sanpaolo's EUR 30.6 billion ($35.3 billion) bid for Monte dei Paschi becomes Italy's largest banking deal, as EU ... 560
Interviews Jun 12, 2026 How Alliance Bank is building an everyday banking franchise Alliance Bank Malaysia is using digital engagement, ecosystem partnerships and technology investments to position itself... 1351
Conference Jun 11, 2026 Bangkok Bank points to the workflow shift behind AI agents in banking At SuperAI, executives from Bangkok Bank, Minden.ai and Microsoft Asia argued that banks will capture AI value only when... 2007
Conference Jun 11, 2026 Banks choosing the smartest AI model may be solving yesterday's problem As benchmark gaps narrow and model prices fall, a broader debate on frontier artificial intelligence points to a new ent... 973
Awards Ceremonies Jun 11, 2026 Vietnamese banks recognised for digital innovation, SME finance and wealth management at The Asian Banker Vietnam Awards 2026 TNEX, VietinBank, BIDV, and Vietcombank were recognised for achievements in digital banking, SME services, wealth manage... 2445
Awards Ceremonies Jun 11, 2026 ABA Bank named Best Retail Bank in Cambodia 2026 for excellence in digital and retail banking The Asian Banker has recognised ABA Bank as Cambodia’s leading retail bank in 2026, highlighting the institution’s p... 6069
Current Account Jun 11, 2026 Financial Stability Board points banks towards AI monitoring AI as human oversight reaches its limits Agentic AI is increasingly embedded in fraud detection and payment workflows at major banks. The Financial Stability Boa... 3335
Conference Jun 10, 2026 When AI makes expensive work cheap, incumbents lose their cover Technology analyst Benedict Evans argues that AI's real disruption is not the productivity gain it delivers, but the way... 560
Interviews Jun 10, 2026 How Affin Group turned enterprise risk management into an intelligence-led operating capability Affin Group’s transformation of enterprise risk management reflects how banks are repositioning risk from a compliance... 1704
Interviews Jun 10, 2026 Banks should not separate crypto from tokenisation infrastructure Gerald Goh, co-founder and CEO of Sygnum Asia Pacific, argues that banks should treat crypto and real-world asset tokeni... 1970
Current Account Jun 09, 2026 Intesa Sanpaolo bids $35.3B for Monte dei Paschi di Siena in deal that would reshape Italian banking Intesa Sanpaolo has launched a bid to acquire Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena in a transaction that would create the Eur... 2211
Weekly Brief Jun 08, 2026 From Basel to Beijing, regulators reshape how capital moves ESMA advances centralised European market supervision as China extends state oversight to outbound investment, while US ... 491
Interviews Jun 05, 2026 If payments are becoming commoditised, where does transaction banking create value? As payment execution becomes faster, broader and increasingly standardised, financial institutions are under pressure to... 1400
Interviews Jun 05, 2026 How should banks compete when Washington redraws the rules of finance Former US Congressman Patrick McHenry argues that AI, digital assets and a more politically responsive regulatory enviro... 1703
Datafiles Jun 05, 2026 More than half of the world's largest banks grew loans faster than deposits Mapping deposit growth against loan growth across the world's 1,000 largest banks reveals that 54% expanded lending fast... 528
Current Account Jun 05, 2026 Citi Institute projects $5.5T tokenised asset market by 2030 as DTCC, NYSE and Nasdaq embed tokenisation in core infrastructure Citi Institute projects a $5.5 trillion tokenised asset market by 2030, driven by public securities as DTCC, NYSE and Na... 3451
