Weekly Brief Nov 04 Revolut gains New Zealand banking licence; lending growth lifts Grab’s financial services earnings Retail Finance Weekly: Digital banks widened their reach as Revolut won a New Zealand licence and lending lifted Grab’s financial services to positi... 935
Weekly Brief Oct 26 Sweden’s SEB pauses buybacks as Barclays plans further capital returns ahead of Basel 3.1 Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: Supervisory model changes cut SEB’s buffer by 120 basis points as lower Pillar 2A requirements cushion Barclays.... 1000
Weekly Brief Oct 23 Crédit Agricole expands AI agents, Santander reports lower model costs, Google Cloud outage hits banks Financial Technology Weekly: Crédit Agricole expands AI agents and Santander reports lower model costs, while a Google Cloud London outage exposes ba... 1732
Weekly Brief Oct 22 DTCC prepares tokenisation service, Bank Negara Malaysia launches bond and sukuk platform Financial Markets Weekly: Transaction Finance Weekly: Tokenisation enters core infrastructure as DTCC readies onboarding, Bank Negara Malaysia launche... 1514
Weekly Brief Oct 07 BCEAO sets new electronic money transfer rules across West Africa TAB Africa Weekly Brief: BCEAO mandates instant-payment interoperability, Zambia cuts rates 250 basis points and Attijariwafa bank agrees Société G... 1378
Weekly Brief Oct 01 Nubank eyes UK banking expansion through potential Monzo acquisition Retail Finance Weekly: Nubank explores Monzo acquisition, Revolut wins Banco Cetelem Argentina approval and China bars non-bank payment institutions l... 2836
Weekly Brief Sep 30 Swift plans cross-border payments by phone number and email Transaction Finance Weekly: Swift's pay-by-alias framework, FedNow's cross-border leg, BNY's Pay-to-Wallet and JP Morgan-Thunes expand cross-border pa... 2414
Weekly Brief Sep 11 Morgan Stanley and Evercore shape OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Financial Services Financial Technology Weekly: OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services with Morgan Stanley and Evercore, Ant International expands AMP, Meta's Mu... 3298
Weekly Brief Aug 25 Standard Chartered and HSBC complete first tokenised deposit transaction, Citi launches near-real-time custody solutions Transaction Finance Weekly: Standard Chartered and HSBC complete the first live cross-border transaction using tokenised deposits on Swift’s blockch... 1770
Weekly Brief Aug 21 DBS deploys agentic AI in corporate credit, Ant scales FX forecasting across global banks Financial Technology Weekly: DBS rolls out agentic AI to 1,500 credit managers, Stripe agrees to acquire OpenRouter for over $7 billion and Absa's cha... 6047
Weekly Brief Jul 22 Revolut enters Australian banking, Pix caught in US-Brazil trade dispute Revolut wins an Australian banking licence, Stripe and Advent reportedly bid $53 billion for PayPal, and Pix enters a US trade dispute, leading a week... 1727
Weekly Brief Jul 20 EU proposes freer movement of bank capital and liquidity, JPMorgan questions US capital reset This week, the European Commission proposed freer capital and liquidity movement across banking groups, JPMorgan pushed back on uneven US capital refo... 1309
Weekly Brief Jul 07 Standard Chartered completes remittance in 37 seconds as Swift's new payments scheme goes live In transaction finance this week, Standard Chartered completes the world's first live remittance under Swift's new retail payments scheme, as UK banks... 1088
Weekly Brief Jul 06 BlackRock private credit fund gates again, India's HDFC Bank clears governance review BlackRock's HPS fund gates withdrawals for a second quarter as insurer private credit exposure draws Treasury scrutiny, while HDFC Bank clears a gover... 1047
Weekly Brief Jul 06 China's central bank adds overnight repo tool, RBI names AI cyberattacks top bank risk Four central bank chiefs unite in Sintra against forward guidance, as the ECB's Claudia Buch resists easing capital rules, China debuts an overnight r... 989
Rankings May 14 Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Citi rank as the world's best corporate, investment and wholesale banks The 2026 ranking of 100 institutions across 34 countries highlights how digital investment drives financial outcomes, with Middle Eastern banks gainin... 5092
Weekly Brief May 04 Rate paths diverge as banks report record first-quarter results The BOJ, Fed and ECB all hold rates but diverge sharply on signals, as record first-quarter earnings at UBS, US banks and Standard Chartered mask earl... 836
Institutional Awards May 26 Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, BNY, United Overseas Bank and Mizuho recognised for excellence in transaction banking, payments, and trade and supply chain finance in Asia Pacific Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, BNY, United Overseas Bank and Mizuho were recognised at the TAB Global Business Achievement Awards in Jakarta, Indones... 5093
