Weekly Brief Oct 21 Capital One advances Discover network plans, UK proposes opening iPhone payments to rival wallets Retail Finance Weekly: Capital One shifts card spending to Discover’s network, UK proposes opening iPhone contactless payments and GCash parent Mynt... 902
Weekly Brief Oct 20 Spanish banks extend blockchain into syndicated loan administration, Visa launches stablecoin prefunding Transaction Finance Weekly: Santander and BBVA administer a syndicated loan on blockchain as Visa takes stablecoin prefunding live and Japan’s megab... 847
Weekly Brief Oct 16 China’s export growth strengthens as household borrowing remains weak TAB China Weekly Brief: China’s exports surged in September while household loans contracted, Visa won clearing approval and banks received liquidit... 846
Weekly Brief Oct 16 Citi links AI-assisted insourcing to lower technology vendor costs, HKMA explores accountability for AI agents Financial Technology Weekly: Citi links 30% lower vendor spending to AI-assisted insourcing as the HKMA and FSB address accountability for AI agents.... 1358
Interviews Oct 16 GenLayer explores AI-based dispute resolution for autonomous transactions GenLayer Labs co-founder and CEO Albert Castellana explains how intelligent contracts could assess disputed obligations between AI agents, while the I... 1106
Weekly Brief Oct 15 Ecobank strengthens China-Africa payments as banks pursue new digital channels TAB Africa Weekly Brief: Standard Bank backs OPay, Airtel Money lists in London, Ecobank expands renminbi links and Zambia nears IMF programme.... 2891
Weekly Brief Oct 15 Visa gains preliminary approval for domestic card clearing in China, US bank earnings reveal contrasting retail results Retail Finance Weekly: Visa gains preliminary approval for China card clearing, India delays merchant fees and US banks report contrasting consumer re... 2335
Weekly Brief Oct 14 Singapore Gulf Bank expands round-the-clock USD transfers through BNY Transaction Finance Weekly: Singapore Gulf Bank joins BNY’s 24/7 dollar transfers, OCBC and Ant International tokenise deposits and Citi funds IndiG... 2705
Weekly Brief Oct 07 Australia’s card reforms reshape payment costs and bank rewards Retail Finance Weekly: Australia's interchange cuts and surcharge ban reshape card economics as Commonwealth Bank widens rewards and Apple Pay enters ... 2542
Weekly Brief Oct 07 IMF expects GCC economic contraction in 2026 while UAE lending grows TAB Middle East Weekly Brief: IMF sees GCC economic contraction in 2026 as Qatar links its government debt to Euroclear.... 1178
Weekly Brief Oct 07 Always-on payments and embedded banking expand into corporate and institutional workflows Transaction Finance Weekly: Citi takes cross-border payments beyond office hours as HSBC enters client systems and IFC backs supplier finance.... 2047
Weekly Brief Oct 02 Barclays expands Anthropic’s Claude Code to support software development and legacy modernisation Financial Technology Weekly: Barclays expands Claude Code for legacy modernisation, HSBC opens banking data to clients' AI tools, Mastercard tests age... 2737
Sibos Round Up Oct 02 Can Mastercard Move help banks defend the SME cross-border payments relationship? As small businesses become more willing to switch cross border payment providers, banks can combine their existing customer trust with Mastercard Move... 794
Weekly Brief Sep 25 BNP Paribas adds Google Cloud AI while retaining limits on public cloud data Financial Technology Weekly: BNP Paribas and Société Générale push AI deeper into banking operations, as regulators and industry bodies race to de... 1622
Weekly Brief Sep 23 Ant Group brings Alipay, digital payments and Zhima Credit together for AI commerce Retail Finance Weekly: Ant Group consolidated Alipay and Zhima Credit for AI commerce, Revolut applied for a Swiss banking licence and six banks publi... 10900
Weekly Brief Sep 17 US Senate blocks Clarity Act, delaying digital asset market structure legislation Financial Markets Weekly: US Senate blocks Clarity Act, Circle launches Arc blockchain, Shanghai Clearing House adds three currencies, India widens to... 1339
Weekly Brief Sep 15 GCC bank assets exceed $4 trillion as deposits rise 6% and UAE credit expands TAB Middle East Weekly Brief: GCC bank assets top $4 trillion, Türkiye holds rates at 37%, US sanctions VTB Bank, and ADGM assets under management ri... 1283
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... 2483
Weekly Brief Sep 09 Chime moves beyond partner-bank model with $590 million Stride acquisition Retail Finance Weekly: Chime buys Stride Bank, EverBank and WaFd merge, ANZ migrates Suncorp customers, Bank of Thailand moves to license BNPL.... 582
Weekly Brief Sep 02 Affirm returns to Australia as banks and fintechs target younger customers Retail Finance Weekly: Banks and fintechs globally deepened embedded and digital-asset finance this week, as Affirm re-entered Australia and Better-Co... 937
Weekly Brief Sep 01 CBUAE opens urgent Banque Misr examination, Saudi deposit growth outpaces credit TAB Middle East Weekly Brief: CBUAE opens urgent Banque Misr examination, Saudi deposit growth outpaces credit and Qatar's economy contracts.... 1092
Weekly Brief Aug 28 Sacombank completes hybrid-cloud core upgrade, ANZ cuts customer scam losses by 24% Financial Technology Weekly: Sacombank reports performance and infrastructure gains from its hybrid-cloud core upgrade, while ANZ cuts customer scam l... 945
Awards Ceremonies Aug 21 The Asian Banker Middle East Awards 2026 highlight advances in wealth management, SME banking, digital lending and automation Across the Middle East, The Asian Banker’s 2026 Awards reflect banks strengthening wealth management, SME banking, digital lending and business inte... 2001
News Analysis Aug 13 Can UOB turn its corporate franchise into a private wealth growth engine? UOB’s wealth income grew as net interest margin narrowed and fee-income guidance was lowered, with the bank turning to corporate and FDI relationshi... 1584
Weekly Brief Aug 11 Libya central bank governor resigns, World Bank backs $100 million Syria financial overhaul TAB Middle East Weekly Brief: Central Bank of Libya's governor resigns, the World Bank approves $100 million for Syria's financial-sector modernisatio... 1541
Current Account Aug 06 Can RHB deepen merchant relationships by owning its payment gateway? RHB PAY brings payment acceptance, settlement and reconciliation under the bank's control as RHB seeks to capture more merchant transaction flows and ... 1084
Weekly Brief Aug 04 Emirates NBD expands in Egypt, UAE banking assets reach $1.53 trillion TAB Middle East Weekly Brief: Emirates NBD moved to acquire HSBC Egypt's retail banking business, UAE banking assets climbed to $1.53 trillion and Ma... 1433
Weekly Brief Aug 04 Citi launches trade digitisation solution, Lloyds tests tokenised cross-border payments through Project Agorá Transaction Finance Weekly: Citi's new trade-finance platform, Lloyds' tokenised-deposit transactions through Project Agorá and Wise's direct connect... 1997
Interviews Jul 31 Can Airwallex bridge the gap between AI intent and financial execution? Airwallex is betting its licences and payment rails, rather than AI models, are the real moat in agentic finance. Timothy Wong, Global VP of Data and ... 2223
Weekly Brief Jul 29 Southern Africa's regional payment system adds Angolan kwanza as second settlement currency Transaction Finance Weekly: SADC-RTGS added the Angolan kwanza as its first new settlement currency since 2013, Visa partnered with Airwallex on freig... 1340
Weekly Brief Jul 21 Bank Nizwa eyes Oman Islamic banking giant, Revolut expands into UAE digital assets This week, Bank Nizwa moved to acquire Oman's Alizz Islamic Bank, Revolut won approval to expand digital asset services in Dubai and UAE banks pressed... 2577
Weekly Brief Jul 21 Emirates NBD goes live on Partior for 24/7 USD settlement, Deutsche Bank expands APAC escrow From Emirates NBD's real-time dollar payments to Deutsche Bank's trade finance guarantees and BBVA's Swift retail scheme, this week saw banks racing t... 1350
Weekly Brief Jul 15 JP Morgan posts largest US bank Q2 earnings, Visa launches AI assistant Record Wall Street profits from trading and dealmaking contrast with muted consumer banking growth, as the UK regulates BNPL, Klarna seeks a US bank c... 656
Weekly Brief Jul 14 Siam Commercial Bank goes live with Citi’s 24/7 US dollar clearing, Swift pilots blockchain ledger with 17 banks This week's Transaction Finance Weekly covers the European Parliament advancing the digital euro, Swift's blockchain pilot with 17 banks, and SCB's la... 868
Weekly Brief Jul 14 Emirates NBD accelerates AI innovation, Tabby launches digital banking platform Emirates NBD partners with Techstars on AI adoption and Tabby launches a digital banking app, as Deutsche Bank expands in Saudi Arabia and Qatar and C... 1158
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... 851
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... 803
Interviews Apr 02 TenPay Global on China’s cross-border payment gateway and the coordination challenge behind agentic payments Yang Wenhui, chief executive officer of TenPay Global (Singapore) discusses the potential of China's CPG, why partnerships are essential and why commo... 4319
Opinion Mar 30 Unlocking Singapore’s potential to build homegrown multinationals Singapore is a major financial centre, managing over $6 trillion in assets under management, hosting the regional headquarters of most global banks, a... 2297
Feature Jan 21 AI governance moves into the enterprise core of financial services As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation to core financial infrastructure, governance is becoming the decisive factor shaping the future ... 5788
Feature Jan 20 Rethinking digital money and settlement in a tokenised world Regulated digital money is shifting from trials to early production as banks in Asia Pacific and beyond build interoperable, compliant settlement syst... 7344
HK Fintech Week Dec 02 Hex Trust’s custody model drives Hong Kong’s institutional digital asset push At Hong Kong FinTech Week, Hex Trust CEO Alessio Quaglini discussed how secure custody, regulatory clarity and technological convergence are reshaping... 4198
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 18 Tokyo opens a new frontier for fintech and Web3 collaboration Tokyo positions itself as a fintech and Web3 gateway, leveraging regulatory clarity, sandboxes and Japan–ASEAN partnerships to attract global innova... 2922
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 18 Linux Foundation calls for cryptographic agility ahead of the quantum era Linux Foundation’s Hart Montgomery urges financial institutions to inventory cryptography, build agile architectures and collaborate through open st... 3097
Round Up Nov 04 Institutions build interoperable foundations for stablecoins and digital markets TOKEN2049 Singapore 2025 showcased crypto’s evolution from innovation to institution, where regulation, interoperability and infrastructure drive it... 3846
Trendwatch Oct 28 Leadership that redefines banking in 2025 Every three years, the TAB Global Leadership Achievement Awards take stock of the individuals reshaping the banking industry. Unlike many recognition ... 4126
Interviews Sep 04 Sibos Frankfurt set to confront digital assets, AI, resilience and interoperability As Sibos returns to Europe, Dhiraj Bajaj, global head of transaction banking FI sales at Standard Chartered, outlines what banks and financial institu... 5295
Interviews Sep 03 Digital assets move into mainstream banking at Standard Chartered Standard Chartered has been at the forefront of bridging the world of crypto-native innovation and regulated finance. Rene Michau, group head of digit... 6967
Interviews Jul 31 Techcombank transforms through technology, data and talent Techcombank has rebuilt its core technology and data architecture, expanded its ecosystem partnerships and redefined its talent model as part of a mul... 16717
TABLive Jul 03 BNCTL sharpens national mandate and regional focus as Timor-Leste prepares for ASEAN integration As Timor-Leste looks to join ASEAN in October 2025, BNCTL under its new CEO, Marcelo da Cruz Carvalho, outlines its strategic transformation to suppor... 21076
