Conference Jun 11 Bangkok Bank points to the workflow shift behind AI agents in banking At SuperAI, executives from Bangkok Bank, Minden.ai and Microsoft Asia argued that banks will capture AI value only when they move beyond faster legac... 1031
Interviews Jun 10 Banks should not separate crypto from tokenisation infrastructure Gerald Goh, co-founder and CEO of Sygnum Asia Pacific, argues that banks should treat crypto and real-world asset tokenisation as a single infrastruct... 1366
Interviews May 25 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 deposits can give corporate treasure... 1717
Current Account May 21 Singapore tests whether trust can beat scale in the AI financial hub race Tan Su Shan, chief executive officer of DBS Bank, and Gan Kim Yong, Singapore’s deputy prime minister and minister for trade and industry, set out h... 1104
Analysis May 11 OCBC uses wealth and deposits to defend earnings as rates fall OCBC’s first-quarter profit rises 5% to SGD 1.97 billion ($1.46 billion), driven by record non-interest income and a strong performance in wealth ma... 1126
Analysis May 08 UOB targets fee-led growth as Citi integration yields 8.5 million ASEAN customers UOB posted SGD 1.4 billion ($1 billion) in first-quarter 2026 net profit as lower lending margins kept pressure on earnings, turning attention from 20... 1770
Current Account Apr 30 DBS sustains record first-quarter income on customer flows as rate compression bites DBS posted record total income of SGD 5.95 billion ($4.4 billion) in the first quarter of 2026 as falling interest rates compressed lending margins. T... 1157
Current Account Apr 27 DBS expands Spark GenAI programme to move SMEs from experimentation to deployment SMEs in Singapore are gaining more structured support to apply artificial intelligence within their operations through DBS’s expanded Spark GenAI pr... 1203
Analysis Mar 02 OCBC delivers $6.8 billion pre-tax profit as deposits anchor wealth monetisation model Strong income generation, disciplined cost management and stable asset quality lifted OCBC’s 2025 profit before tax to $6.8 billion, as rising clien... 2426
Analysis Feb 27 UOB reports $5.7 billion net profit after pre-emptive provisions as fee income reaches record UOB’s 2025 performance reflects disciplined risk buffering as pre-emptive provisioning weighed on earnings, while record fee income, resilient ASEAN... 2763
Interviews Feb 12 Visa charts APAC’s two-speed consumer economy as travel and digital spend accelerate Simon Baptist, principal economist for APAC at Visa, examined how cross-border mobility, digital commerce and artificial intelligence investment are r... 2399
Feature Jan 20 Rethinking digital money and settlement in a tokenised world Regulated digital money is shifting from trials to early production as major banks including HSBC, JP Morgan and Standard Chartered move towards inter... 5548
Interviews Dec 11 Saviynt argues machine identity governance must evolve for the age of AI agents As machine identities outpace human ones, Dan Mountstephen, senior vice president for APJ at Saviynt, said compliance-led controls are insufficient an... 3178
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 24 How Standard Chartered is institutionalising digital assets across banking Danielle Szetho, head of digital asset portfolio and governance at Standard Chartered, details the bank’s efforts to embed regulated digital asset c... 3500
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 24 How UOB is positioning for digital assets at scale Lee Zhu Kuang, managing director and group head of UOB’s Innovation Group, outlines how the bank is preparing for tokenised assets and emerging digi... 3769
