Sponsored Jul 10 When does extending card and payments systems make more sense than rebuilding them? As the cost of replacing card and payments systems collides with the cost of carrying them forward, the modernisation question is shifting from whethe... 231
Current Account Jul 01 Can Standard Bank turn RMB clearing into revenue beyond existing trade flows? The PBoC has authorised Standard Bank and ICBC to jointly clear renminbi transactions across 19 African countries, the first continent-named clearing ... 738
Current Account Jun 25 All 32 US banks pass Fed stress test as higher rate assumptions offset growing credit losses The Federal Reserve's 2026 supervisory stress test cleared every large US bank against a scenario modelling $708 billion in projected losses, but the ... 1057
Current Account Jun 20 HSBC expands Google Cloud AI partnership with $100 million use case threshold HSBC announced an expanded AI partnership with Google Cloud in June 2026, prioritising use cases estimated to return more than $100 million in revenue... 1749
Sponsored Jun 18 How should banks move agentic AI from pilot to operational core? As banks across Asia Pacific accelerate AI deployment in customer operations, the strategic question is no longer whether to adopt agentic solutions, ... 1100
Sponsored Jun 16 The AI-native bank is an accountability question, not a technology one Banks are no longer asking whether to deploy AI. The harder question is whether governance, controls and lines of accountability are being redesigned ... 845
Current Account Jun 11 Financial Stability Board points banks towards AI monitoring AI as human oversight reaches its limits Agentic AI is increasingly embedded in fraud detection and payment workflows at major banks. The Financial Stability Board's June 2026 consultation re... 1981
Current Account Jun 09 Intesa Sanpaolo bids $35.3B for Monte dei Paschi di Siena in deal that would reshape Italian banking Intesa Sanpaolo has launched a bid to acquire Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena in a transaction that would create the Eurozone's second-largest bank by... 1495
Current Account Jun 05 Citi Institute projects $5.5T tokenised asset market by 2030 as DTCC, NYSE and Nasdaq embed tokenisation in core infrastructure A new Citi Institute report projects the tokenised asset market will reach $5.5 trillion by 2030, driven by US equities, treasuries and money market f... 1342
Current Account Jun 03 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, capacity issues and external ... 736
Current Account May 22 RHB targets SME cyber risk as Malaysia's fraud losses double and AI sharpens attack tooling RHB's integration of anti-money laundering and fraud management, combined with an SME cyber self-assessment tool, points to a broader challenge: finan... 1704
Current Account May 19 HSBC launches $4B credit facility for China's clean energy and low-carbon companies HSBC has established a $4 billion Sustainability and Transition Credit Facility in mainland China to provide financing to eligible companies in clean ... 1192
Conference May 15 Malaysia enters third phase of economic transformation with a blueprint for an AI-native economy At The Asian Banker Summit 2026, Minister for Digital Gobind Singh Deo argued that Malaysia’s AI ambitions require more than investment attraction. ... 1170
Current Account May 08 FSB flags supervisory data gaps across $2T private credit market The Financial Stability Board's first dedicated report on private credit finds that supervisors lack consistent visibility into a market estimated at ... 1935
Analysis May 08 HSBC's best returns in near 20 years meet a $1.3 billion credit charge HSBC posted its highest returns in nearly two decades in the first quarter of 2026, driven by a Hong Kong franchise delivering a 44.7% segment RoTE, a... 1210
