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... 231
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... 473
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... 1820
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... 2109
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... 1909
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... 4508
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... 2763
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... 2864
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... 3128
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 21 Banking Circle expands Asia Pacific footprint as tokenised payment models evolve Kirit Bhatia, chief digital assets officer at Banking Circle, explained how the bank combined traditional banking infrastructure with tokenised assets... 2464
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 21 Hedera positions its distributed ledger network for institutional use Isadora Arredondo, global policy director at Hedera, outlined how the network’s technical design, governance structure and regulatory engagements ai... 1737
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 20 StraitsX builds the rails for real-world stablecoin payments At the Singapore FinTech Festival 2025, Liu Tianwei, co-founder and CEO of StraitsX, demonstrates how regulated digital money infrastructure is taking... 3681
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 20 How DCJPY is building the tokenised deposit model in Japan In conversation at the Singapore FinTech Festival 2025, Mai Kaneko, international business lead at DeCurret DCP, outlines how DCJPY is shaping Japan... 2299
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 20 Bank of America builds a future-ready global payments infrastructure In conversation at the Singapore FinTech Festival 2025, Rich Clow, head of innovation and strategy for Global Payments Solutions at Bank of America, e... 2064
