Interviews Jul 07 Can Maybank turn its Singapore-Malaysia strength into an ASEAN advantage? Chong Wee Yeat, Head of Global Banking at Maybank Singapore is positioning the bank’s Malaysia-Singapore corridor depth as a route to wider ASEAN cl... 1228
Sponsored Jul 06 Techcombank shows how separating intelligence is turning AI into a structural advantage Vietnam's Techcombank has spent five years separating decision intelligence from operational systems to build a platform capable of scaling without ad... 862
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... 1308
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... 1520
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... 2144
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... 1330
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... 1309
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... 1959
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... 1269
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... 1506
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... 2504
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... 3021
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... 2492
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... 5963
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... 3289
