Weekly Brief Nov 03 Egypt advances bank privatisation, Bahrain’s Mumtalakat plans AI-native wholesale bank TAB Middle East Weekly Brief: Egypt advances bank privatisation and tightens policy, while Gulf lenders grow profits and Bahrain eyes AI-led banking.... 711
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... 1081
Weekly Brief Oct 27 HSBC launches RedCoin, JP Morgan and ADB expand India working-capital support Transaction Finance Weekly: Hong Kong stablecoins gain a major bank’s payment network, while recipient verification and shared settlement arrangemen... 1379
Weekly Brief Oct 02 NGFS outlines how climate risk could raise banks’ capital requirements Sustainable Finance Weekly: NGFS outlines climate capital buffers, FCA softens disclosure rules and DBS and ING underwrite a GBP 1.016 billion London ... 1338
Weekly Brief Sep 23 Partior and LSEG target prefunded nostro dependence in cross-border settlement Transaction Finance Weekly: Partior and LSEG DiSH built a multi-bank liquidity framework, HSBC expanded cross-border cash pooling in China and NPCI in... 1182
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... 1749
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... 1200
Research Note Dec 02 Blockchain to support better governance as sustainability funds increase The push for climate change considerations puts pressure on financial services companies to develop and use advanced technologies such as blockchain t... 15264
