Weekly Brief Sep 08 FAB advances tokenised cross-border payments as GCC integration and sukuk issuance accelerate TAB Middle East Weekly Brief: FAB completes tokenised dollar transactions with Citi, Qatar joins AFAQ, and Saudi Arabia raises $3.25 billion through s... 441
Weekly Brief Sep 08 Tokenised payments enter live treasury use as correspondent controls face scrutiny Transaction Finance Weekly: Citi and HSBC advance Swift-ledger payments, OFSI fines Citi and ByteDance secures a $29.6 billion loan.... 441
Weekly Brief Sep 01 Warsh puts inflation first, Bank of China leads Big Five profit growth The Asian Banker Weekly Brief: Warsh reshapes Fed guidance, Treasury targets Banque Misr, China's banks post profit gains and rate hikes continue in K... 554
Interviews Aug 13 Can DBS simplify cross-border payments as they become more complex? As cross-border payments become more sophisticated, DBS Bank's Sriram Muthukrishnan argues that competitive advantage will increasingly belong to bank... 1482
Weekly Brief Aug 11 Wells Fargo plans tokenised deposits, Deutsche Bank gains direct RMB clearing role Transaction Finance Weekly: Wells Fargo launches tokenised deposits for corporate clients, Deutsche Bank gains direct RMB clearing in Frankfurt, Klarn... 1094
Interviews Jul 30 Can Standard Chartered redesign cross-border payments for a multi-rail world? Standard Chartered's Naveen Mallela argues cross-border payments' next phase hinges not on new rails but on integration, linking Partior, Project Agor... 1381
Weekly Brief Jul 30 Airtel Money prepares London listing, three African central banks hold rates TAB Africa Weekly Brief: Airtel Africa prepares a London listing for Airtel Money, South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana hold rates, and Angola's Banco de F... 997
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... 941
Weekly Brief Jul 29 ADCB profit rises 28% as Gulf bank earnings diverge TAB Middle East Weekly Brief: ADCB extended its profit streak to 20 quarters as Gulf earnings diverged, DIFC surpassed 10,000 registered companies, an... 856
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... 486
Case Study Jul 14 Can Europe's banks create enough liquidity for a euro stablecoin? Europe's on-chain euro challenge is whether enough banks and counterparties can make it liquid enough to matter. Qivalis, backed by 37 European banks,... 846
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... 472
Current Account Jul 01 Can Standard Bank turn RMB clearing into revenue beyond existing trade flows? The PBoC has authorised Standard Bank and ICBC to jointly clear renminbi transactions across 19 African countries, the first continent-named clearing ... 1279
Weekly Brief Jun 30 Standard Bank becomes first African bank to clear Renminbi, HSBC scales TradeCash in Singapore Standard Bank becomes the first African bank authorised to clear Renminbi transactions, as HSBC's TradeCash goes live in Singapore and the IFC and San... 440
Interviews Mar 25 BNY strengthens GP&T execution through embedded AI and infrastructure scale BNY's Global Payments & Trade business in Asia Pacific is scaling institutional infrastructure through embedded AI, integrated foreign exchange execut... 3177
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... 6741
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 24 How Standard Chartered is institutionalising digital assets across banking Danielle Szetho, head of digital asset portfolio and governance at Standard Chartered, discusses the bank’s efforts to embed regulated digital asset... 4652
Sibos Round Up Oct 15 Dandelion’s wholesale network links banks to 3.2 billion mobile wallets and 626,000 cash points At Sibos Frankfurt 2025, Euronet’s Juan Bianchi said Dandelion enhances existing payment networks, linking banks to emerging markets and preparing f... 2617
Sibos Round Up Oct 14 Wise Platform embeds low-cost, instant cross-border payments into banks and ecosystems At Sibos Frankfurt 2025, Samarth Bansal, general manager for Wise Platform Asia Pacific, explained how Wise is extending its infrastructure from retai... 3685
Sibos Round Up Oct 01 Standard Chartered accelerates clearing speed, transparency and embedded payments Speaking at Sibos Frankfurt 2025, Danielle Sharpe, global head of clearing at Standard Chartered, set out how the bank is investing in speed, transpar... 3057
