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... 1721
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... 2367
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... 2051
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,... 1617
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... 2240
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... 950
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... 2097
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... 813
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... 2059
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... 773
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... 2172
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... 1318
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... 3612
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 ... 2880
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... 2872
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... 3672
