Current Account Apr 29 Strait of Hormuz closure set to deliver largest commodity price spike since 2022, World Bank warns The World Bank's April 2026 Commodity Markets Outlook projects a 16% rise in average commodity prices this year — the first annual increase since 20... 607
Current Account Apr 29 Khazanah and SC price Malaysia's first tokenised sukuk in $25M pilot Khazanah Nasional and the Securities Commission Malaysia have priced the country's inaugural tokenised sukuk, a MYR 100 million (about $25 million) on... 392
Current Account Apr 24 Non-USD stablecoins gain traction where banking and settlement rails are limited The 48-point gap between USD stablecoins’ 98% share of market capitalisation and the USD’s 50% share of cross-border payments points to a structur... 763
Feature Apr 23 Malaysia's tokenisation pilots target cross-border wholesale frictions Bank Negara Malaysia's supervised pilots are testing whether tokenised deposits and ringgit stablecoins can address specific wholesale settlement fric... 1745
Analysis Apr 20 Global banking confronts a 1970s-scale oil shock with depleted policy space The IMF's Spring 2026 publications find banks well-capitalised and liquid, but the fiscal and financial environment around them is materially more con... 1064
Interviews Apr 15 Standard Chartered's blueprint for transformation that lasts Standard Chartered announced in its results that it has achieved its RoTE milestone a year ahead of schedule. The Fit for Growth programme has already... 2365
Interviews Apr 02 TenPay Global on China’s cross-border payment gateway and the coordination challenge behind agentic payments China’s Cross-Border Interconnection Payment Gateway (CPG) gives domestic and international payment institutions a single, standardised on-ramp for ... 1503
Conference Mar 18 AI begins to reshape SME credit assessment at Chinese lenders Discussions at the Shanghai International AI Finance Summit 2026 highlighted how Chinese banks are using AI to address structural constraints in SME l... 1381
Analysis Mar 02 CIMB announces record dividend and cross-sell growth in first year of Forward30 In the first full year of its six-year Forward30 plan, CIMB Group Holdings delivered net profit of MYR 7.9 billion (approximately $1.7 billion) and an... 2025
Analysis Feb 27 Maybank hits 11.7% ROE as corridor banking and deposit repricing reshape earnings Maybank closes its M25+ cycle with a 4.2% rise in net profit to MYR 10.51 billion ($2.4 billion), achieving an 11.7% ROE, driven by strong wealth fees... 2959
Current Account Feb 19 Standard Chartered CFO joins Apollo as private credit platforms expand institutional role Diego De Giorgi’s move from Standard Chartered to Apollo Global Management comes as institutional investors continue expanding their role in credit ... 2029
Interviews Jan 05 Elliptic strengthens the market integrity foundations for tokenised finance in Asia As institutional engagement with tokenisation deepens across Asia, financial institutions are testing what it takes to operate safely as activity scal... 2243
Singapore Fintech Festival Dec 02 Nethermind brings transparency to the “black box” of on-chain settlement At the Singapore FinTech Festival 2025, Nethermind’s Delane Foo outlined why institutional tokenisation on public Web3 infrastructure is still const... 2238
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 28 CFIT positions the UK as a model of prudence in digital-money regulation At the Singapore FinTech Festival 2025, Nicole Sandler, head of corporate and regulatory affairs at the Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology,... 2218
