Weekly Brief Nov 09 How are political change, bank earnings and financial risks reshaping the industry? The Asian Banker Weekly Brief: Democrats’ control of Congress reshaped expectations for US financial policy, while global bank earnings revealed div... 358
Feature Nov 03 Can tokenised deposits become mainstream money? Live cross-bank transactions are moving tokenised deposits beyond experimentation. Their next test is whether they can achieve the interoperability, l... 1188
Weekly Brief Nov 03 Westpac doubles impairment charges, Santander absorbs acquisition capital hit Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: Westpac impairments doubled, Santander’s Webster deal cost 147 basis points of CET1 and euro-area funding access weak... 783
Weekly Brief Oct 30 FAB cuts trade-document processing times by over 70%, BBVA reports 28% developer productivity gain Financial Technology Weekly: Banks report AI gains in single processes, from trade documents to lending, while UK supervisors find post-deployment mon... 1078
Weekly Brief Oct 19 IMF raises 2026 global growth forecast to 3.1% as inflation and AI sell-off test market resilience The Asian Banker Weekly Brief: Despite an upgraded IMF growth outlook, oil-driven inflation, higher yields and an AI-share sell-off are straining mark... 2340
Weekly Brief Oct 19 Basel revises systemic-risk reporting, India’s Yes Bank flags lower CET1 capital Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: Basel averages systemic bank indicators year-round; Yes Bank’s court ruling and Nordea’s ECB review weigh on bank c... 1165
Interviews Oct 12 Can Solana Company compound SOL per share? Solana Company’s Joseph Chee uses share issuance, buybacks, staking and derivatives to grow SOL per share, keeping infrastructure services ancillary... 1596
Weekly Brief Oct 09 ICE and OKX file to trade 63 tokenised US stocks, UBS hands fund administration to Northern Trust Financial Markets Weekly: ICE and OKX file to trade 63 tokenised US stocks, the CFTC seeks views on leveraged retail crypto trading, and UBS hands fun... 1863
Weekly Brief Oct 05 China eases borrowing costs as Australia tightens and global yields stay elevated The Asian Banker Weekly Brief: China reduces selected borrowing costs as Australia tightens policy. Weaker US hiring tempers rate expectations, but el... 1912
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... 3293
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... 2336
Weekly Brief Sep 15 DBS, OCBC and UOB complete first live tokenised SGD transactions using Swift ledger Transaction Finance Weekly: DBS, OCBC and UOB complete Swift's first live SGD tokenised-deposit settlement, Lloyds-SocGen digitise a letter of credit ... 3204
Weekly Brief Sep 08 China’s state banks strengthen capital, APRA acts on ING Australia’s liquidity breaches Risk and Capital Weekly: China’s state banks bolster capital, APRA tightens controls at ING Australia, RBI moves to drain surplus liquidity... 1125
Weekly Brief Aug 18 Banco do Brasil’s agribusiness delinquencies rise, UBS capital proposal remains unresolved Risk and Capital Weekly Brief: Banco do Brasil's agribusiness delinquencies climb, Swiss lawmakers defer UBS's CET1 proposal, China's NPL ratio rises ... 1582
Weekly Brief Aug 14 China’s exports rise 23.9% as high-tech shipments strengthen, PBOC keeps support in reserve TAB China Weekly Brief: China's exports surge 23.9% on tech demand, the PBOC unveils a five-year policy framework, Chinese banks issue RMB1.3 trillion... 1912
Weekly Brief Aug 13 NVIDIA targets $500 billion AI infrastructure financing, Goldman Sachs scales active ETF business Financial Markets Weekly: NVIDIA partners with six investment groups to mobilise $500 billion for AI infrastructure, Goldman Sachs agrees to acquire N... 2413
Briefing Aug 07 DBS sees institutional opportunities in Asian capital markets, wealth and trade DBS sees growth opportunities across Asian capital markets, wealth and intra-Asian trade, with Taiwan and India among its key markets as technology an... 1332
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... 1194
Current Account May 08 FSB flags supervisory data gaps across $2T private credit market The Financial Stability Board's first dedicated review of private credit warns supervisors lack visibility into a market worth up to $2 trillion, citi... 3688
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... 822
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... 7172
Co-published May 07 Unlocking the full potential of digital assets Digital assets and CBDCs are transforming global finance, requiring interoperability, regulation and collaboration to realise their full potential.... 6590
Panel Discussion Mar 26 Building trust in digital finance through blockchain and tokenisation Tokenisation and blockchain are rapidly becoming transformative forces in finance, with the potential to enhance security, transparency and efficiency... 3617
