Interviews Jun 05, 2026 How should treasury operate in a volatile always-on economy? A more volatile business environment, shifting trade patterns and rising expectations around responsiveness are changing... 1437
Interviews Jun 05, 2026 BNI strengthens its transaction-driven wholesale banking engine BNI is repositioning wholesale banking around transaction flows and operational deposits, using BNIdirect to drive susta... 1877
Interviews Jun 03, 2026 How can Mizuho become Asia Pacific's regional connector bank? Mizuho Bank is strengthening transaction banking as a strategic pillar of its Asia Pacific franchise. Its adoption of SA... 1621
Current Account Jun 03, 2026 Basel Committee flags change management failures as top cause of ICT incidents at global banks Change control gaps are the leading cause of non-malicious ICT incidents at banks, ahead of design and testing failures,... 1237
Interviews Jun 03, 2026 Bank Muamalat positions ATLAS as a cloud-native growth engine for Islamic banking Malaysia's Islamic banks face pressure to lower acquisition costs and serve younger customers. Hazrizal Hassan, director... 1778
Weekly Brief Jun 01, 2026 Central banks recalibrate while agentic AI moves into production Diverging monetary policy and rapid AI adoption reshape banking risk this week, as Fed vice chair Bowman signals no rate... 584
Current Account May 26, 2026 CIMB Group posts $400 million Q1 profit as fee income and cost cuts offset margin pressure Malaysia’s second-largest lender by assets reported steady income growth and lower costs, while net interest margins s... 1710
Datafiles May 26, 2026 Digital banks with loan books above $250 million more likely to reach profitability Digital banks with loan balances above $250 million are significantly more likely to be profitable, as scale and product... 715
Opinion May 26, 2026 Chinese yuan emerges as situational safe-haven currency With the Strait of Hormuz under severe disruption, the world is facing a major physical shock to oil supplies through wh... 1775
Weekly Brief May 25, 2026 Currencies under pressure, frameworks under construction Currency pressure drives rate action in Indonesia, India and Nigeria as China holds its loan prime rate for a twelfth mo... 474
Interviews May 25, 2026 FirstBank’s Digital Xperience Centres expand self-service banking First Bank of Nigeria Limited has aggressively rolled out Digital Xperience Centres (DXCs)—fully automated, self-servi... 1834
Obituary May 25, 2026 In memoriam Barney Frank - A legislator who remained engaged with the future of finance Barney Frank, former US Congressman and Dodd-Frank co-author, passed away at 86. He reshaped financial regulation and re... 1083
Interviews May 25, 2026 HSBC tokenises deposits to solve 24/7 treasury problem Lewis Sun, global head of digital currencies, corporate and institutional banking at HSBC, explains how tokenised deposi... 3091
Interviews May 22, 2026 HBL modernises core banking through continuous transformation HBL CTO Faisal Anwar believes large-scale banking transformation increasingly depends on whether incumbent institutions ... 2453
Current Account May 22, 2026 RHB targets SME cyber risk as Malaysia's fraud losses double and AI sharpens attack tooling RHB's integration of AML and fraud management, combined with an SME cyber self-assessment tool, points to a broader chal... 2397
Current Account May 21, 2026 Grab takes control of Indonesia’s Superbank, deepening SEA fintech push Grab Holdings Limited will make Indonesian digital lender Superbank a subsidiary after Singtel transfers its stake to GX... 2968
