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... 1217
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... 982
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,... 743
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... 1085
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... 1174
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... 577
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... 1250
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... 1315
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... 778
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... 2151
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 ... 1789
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... 1714
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... 1854
Interviews May 21, 2026 Techcombank engineers reusable AI agent platform to accelerate software development Techcombank is investing in centralised AI governance and a modular agent platform designed to transform its software de... 1483
Current Account May 21, 2026 Singapore tests whether trust can beat scale in the AI financial hub race Tan Su Shan, CEO of DBS, and Gan Kim Yong, Singapore’s deputy prime minister and minister for trade and industry, set ... 1345
Interviews May 21, 2026 What does Trust Bank’s profitable month say about digital banking economics in Singapore? Trust Bank’s first profitable month in March 2026 is an important milestone, but the more meaningful question is wheth... 1928
