Conference Nov 09 Can AI regulation give businesses clear rules and regulators the means to enforce them? EU, US and UK perspectives at the World AI Regulation Summit examined how clearer requirements, investigative powers and regulatory expertise can make... 479
Current Account Nov 06 Peter Seah’s DBS legacy faces new demands on board oversight Peter Seah’s chairmanship saw DBS undertake a sustained digital transformation, but subsequent technology disruptions and expanding AI adoption have... 770
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
Site Visits Oct 29 How Amap and Bank of Beijing are testing the business value of AI The final day of The Asian Banker Beijing AI Innovation Study Tour 2026 examined how AI is being applied to real-world activity and banking operations... 1299
Current Account Oct 29 Dubai AI Festival puts banking’s agentic AI ambitions to the test At Dubai AI Festival, Mashreq Bank, Zand, FABMISR, HSBC and Network International examined agentic AI, probing transaction authorisation, resilience a... 1692
Site Visits Oct 28 How NetEase and Pony.ai are testing AI controls and commercial value NetEase and Pony.ai illustrated different challenges in deploying AI: controlling agent behaviour, operating autonomous vehicles and integrating AI in... 1686
Sibos Round Up Oct 13 Can Standard Chartered move agentic payments from recommendation to delegated action? Standard Chartered sees agentic payments advancing in stages: first using richer data to provide visibility, then recommending actions and eventually ... 1301
Sibos Round Up Oct 12 Can Bank of America turn the next technology cycle into better payments outcomes? Bank of America sees the convergence of AI, distributed ledgers and tokenisation as a major new technology cycle in payments. Mark Monaco says the opp... 1805
Weekly Brief Oct 09 Singapore sets AI risk deadlines as banks expand autonomous systems Financial Technology Weekly: Regulators and boards tighten accountability for AI as agentic tools reshape bank operations, cut jobs and sharpen cyber ... 3237
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
Sibos Round Up Sep 30 Can SmartStream move bank operations from AI pilots to governed execution? Banks are experimenting with artificial intelligence at very different speeds, but SmartStream's Nicholas Smith said their common requirement is gover... 973
Weekly Brief Sep 25 SFC targets 2027 launch for Southbound renminbi trading and REIT Connect TAB China Weekly Brief: SFC targets 2027 for renminbi Stock Connect upgrades; PBOC sets holiday liquidity operations; NFRA's Shanghai office curbs ban... 1762
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... 2027
Feature Sep 16 How should FIs build and sustain digital trust when AI is transforming the threat landscape? AI is changing banking faster than any technology since the internet. As systems become more autonomous, institutions must keep them secure, explainab... 1547
Trendwatch Sep 15 The next banking divide will be institutional readiness, not technology Banks are gaining access to increasingly powerful technologies, but the competitive gap is shifting towards how effectively they can adapt their gover... 1025
Conference Aug 26 How are banks modernising for AI without compromising resilience and trust? Banks at Temenos Regional Forum Asia Pacific 2026 discussed how core modernisation and AI are changing technology priorities, while Vietnam's evolving... 1193
Conference Aug 21 How AI-era risks test the limits of bank-level controls in the Philippines As Philippine banks expand artificial intelligence (AI) in fraud detection and daily operations, banking and cybersecurity leaders at TAB Finance Phil... 2448
Conference Aug 13 Philippine banks weigh AI’s shift from adoption to operating-model transformation Finance Philippines 2026 examined how artificial intelligence is moving beyond experimentation into financial-services workflows, raising questions ar... 2392
Opinion Aug 10 Why data governance and skilled talent will determine banks’ AI success Scaling AI in banking depends on trusted data, proportionate governance and skilled people. As adoption expands, banks need to embed controls into dai... 3540
Interviews Jul 27 How much authority should banks give AI agents? Lee Wan Sie, Cluster Director of AI Governance and Safety at Singapore’s IMDA says agentic AI brings greater autonomy because systems can act, not j... 1879
Conference Jul 17 China's AI banking agenda enters a new phase as governance takes centre stage Finance China 2026 highlighted how China's banking industry is moving beyond early AI deployment towards enterprise-wide transformation, with governan... 6174
Feature Jul 02 Why banks are re-architecting the core for speed, stability and scale Banks are moving beyond replacement-led modernisation towards a broader redesign of architecture, operating models and resilience capabilities. The ch... 1293
Editorial Jun 30 Can China's banks turn AI governance from a board mandate into a competitive advantage? China's NFRA has issued its first dedicated AI framework for banks and insurers, moving AI from a technology initiative to a board-level governance is... 3505
Weekly Brief Jun 29 From retail gold to AI funds, Chinese institutions move on risk ICBC and peers gate leveraged precious metals trading after volatility, as JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs reinforce capital buffers, Nomura builds instant... 943
Weekly Brief Jun 22 Washington shifts rate expectations as China advances AI regulation The Fed's updated projections turn sharply hawkish under new chair Kevin Warsh, as Iran-war energy inflation pushes the Bank of Japan to a 31-year rat... 939
Current Account Jun 20 HSBC expands Google Cloud AI partnership with $100 million use case threshold HSBC announced an expanded AI partnership with Google Cloud in June 2026, prioritising use cases estimated to return more than $100 million in revenue... 4583
Weekly Brief Jun 15 Italy's largest bank deal, Asian currency defence Intesa Sanpaolo's EUR 30.6 billion ($35.3 billion) bid for Monte dei Paschi becomes Italy's largest banking deal, as EU ministers advance centralised ... 883
Weekly Brief Jun 01 Central banks recalibrate while agentic AI moves into production Diverging monetary policy and rapid AI adoption reshape banking risk this week, as Fed vice chair Bowman signals no rate hike, BOJ's Ueda flags oil-sh... 965
Current Account May 21 Singapore tests whether trust can beat scale in the AI financial hub race Tan Su Shan, CEO of DBS, and Gan Kim Yong, Singapore’s deputy prime minister and minister for trade and industry, set out how Singapore is trying to... 2299
Conference May 15 Malaysia enters third phase of economic transformation with a blueprint for an AI-native economy At The Asian Banker Summit 2026, Minister for Digital Gobind Singh Deo argued that Malaysia’s AI ambitions require more than investment attraction. ... 2182
Conference May 13 Will banks shape the new financial order or be shaped by it The opening plenary of The Asian Banker Summit 2026 explored a central challenge for banks: whether to become more active shapers of economic outcomes... 1620
Interviews May 07 Standard Chartered positions AI Factory and SC GPT as enterprise reuse engines Alvaro Garrido, COO, technology & operations and CIO, information security & data at Standard Chartered, on the bank's AI Factory, SC GPT rollout, and... 5243
Interviews Apr 15 Standard Chartered's blueprint for transformation that lasts Standard Chartered's Fit for Growth programme saved $754 million, exceeding return targets a year early. Global head of group transformation, Brian O'... 4605
Interviews Feb 06 Shanghai Commercial Bank builds SME and wealth operating leverage through data and digital assets Ryan Fung and Eric Fan outline how Shanghai Commercial Bank is reshaping its SME model through shared data, controlled AI and tokenised settlement to ... 3360
Singapore Fintech Festival Dec 03 UOB strengthens responsible AI governance for enterprise deployment UOB sharpens production-grade AI governance with disciplined model controls, explainability frameworks and enterprise-wide oversight to scale responsi... 4980
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 26 Mastercard embeds AI governance to support production-grade financial systems Mastercard is scaling responsible AI across its global payments network, embedding privacy, ethical safeguards and accountability to transition high-r... 6178
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 24 MAS strengthens financial system resilience as cloud, AI and quantum risks converge Vincent Loy details how the Monetary Authority of Singapore is strengthening operational resilience, raising AI governance standards and advancing qua... 5887
HK Fintech Week Nov 19 DBS Hong Kong drives digital leap for SMEs with human-centred AI DBS Bank Hong Kong is reshaping SME banking through digital integration and responsible use of AI. At Hong Kong FinTech Week 2025, Lareina Wang, manag... 4074
Interviews Sep 22 Deutsche Bank balances legacy and new rails in global payments Sebastien Avot, head of institutional cash and trade finance, Asia Pacific at Deutsche Bank, explained how the bank is navigating the coexistence of e... 4678
Conference Aug 14 How smarter banks and bolder moves shape Philippine finance Finance Philippines 2025 brought together banking leaders, regulators and technology experts to explore how structural reforms, digital transformation... 4784
Roundtable Jun 11 Banks focus on future-ready capabilities through core modernisation, cloud and AI Senior executives from leading financial institutions in Asia share how they are strategically accelerating technology transformation by adopting clou... 4534
Roundtable Apr 07 AI reshapes banking, driving innovation and risk management At the Japan Banking Innovation Conference, TAB Global unveiled key insights from the Global Excellence in Digital and Retail Finance Programme 2025, ... 11434
