Weekly Brief Aug 12 Mercado Pago grows credit portfolio 75%, Revolut secures French banking licence Retail Finance Weekly: Mercado Pago's credit portfolio grew 75% to $16 billion, Revolut secured a French banking licence, Nu México became a fully li... 1007
Weekly Brief Aug 05 HSBC exits two retail markets, Standard Chartered transfers Singapore lending portfolio to Trust Retail Finance Weekly: HSBC exits Australian and Egyptian retail banking through sales to Blackstone and Emirates NBD, while Visa agrees to acquire Bi... 1198
Current Account Jul 31 How is OCBC using agentic AI to cut private banking onboarding times? OCBC’s latest AI deployment, HELIOS, moves due diligence ahead of the first client meeting, shortening private banking onboarding and enabling compl... 1487
Bank Results Jul 30 Indian banks post stronger first-half profits as lower provisions offset weak revenues Indian lenders posted stronger first-half profits as lower loan provisions boosted earnings, but weak revenue growth and margin pressure point to a mo... 415
Weekly Brief Jul 30 X enters financial services with accounts, cards and payments Retail Finance Weekly: X launches X Money, Upstart secures a conditional bank charter, PayPal lifts payment volume to $486.4 billion, and DBS expands ... 1123
Weekly Brief Jul 15 JP Morgan posts largest US bank Q2 earnings, Visa launches AI assistant Record Wall Street profits from trading and dealmaking contrast with muted consumer banking growth, as the UK regulates BNPL, Klarna seeks a US bank c... 293
Weekly Brief Jul 22 Revolut enters Australian banking, Pix caught in US-Brazil trade dispute Revolut wins an Australian banking licence, Stripe and Advent reportedly bid $53 billion for PayPal, and Pix enters a US trade dispute, leading a week... 917
Awards Ceremonies May 15 United Overseas Bank, Deutsche Bank and Vietcombank honoured for leadership in cross-border investment, trade finance and sustainable finance United Overseas Bank, Deutsche Bank and Vietcombank were recognised at the TAB Global Business Achievement Awards 2026 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ... 1258
Rankings May 14 Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Citi rank as the world's best corporate, investment and wholesale banks The 2026 ranking of 100 institutions across 34 countries reflects a competitive landscape where institutions translating digital investment into measu... 3365
Rankings Mar 16 BOCHK tops global retail bank rankings on funding strength and targeted digital spend Bank of China (Hong Kong) leads the 2026 TAB Global World’s Best Retail Banks Ranking, ahead of Emirates NBD and First Abu Dhabi Bank, as banks glob... 3380
Current Account Feb 25 Bank of America sees diverging domestic cycles reshaping ASEAN bank credit growth and margins AI-driven export strength is lifting parts of ASEAN’s outlook, according to Bank of America’s Kai Wei Ang and Rahul Bajoria, but widening divergen... 2032
Feature Jan 21 AI governance moves into the enterprise core of financial services As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation to core financial infrastructure, governance is becoming the decisive factor shaping the future ... 5254
Roundtable Dec 23 British International Investment deepens climate-finance push in Asia The UK’s development finance arm, British International Investment, is scaling its presence in Southeast Asia through platform-building, patient cap... 5770
Singapore Fintech Festival Dec 10 European Commission shapes the next frontier of AI governance in finance As financial institutions expand their use of AI, the EU is refining governance, accountability and data-protection frameworks to safeguard markets an... 2881
Singapore Fintech Festival Dec 10 AI Singapore strengthens the talent and governance foundations for AI adoption As financial institutions accelerate their use of AI, Singapore is building national talent pipelines and governance frameworks that support responsib... 3992
