Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 26 XTransfer builds intelligent cross border payments for global SMEs Violas Xiao, CEO of XTransfer Singapore, explains how AI, data and ecosystem partnerships are shaping the company’s cross border payments infrastruc... 1323
HK Fintech Week Nov 20 LianLian Global supports Chinese SMEs with AI-enabled cross-border solutions LianLian Global's Tim Shen on expanding into emerging markets, using AI-driven compliance, payments and FX tools to support Chinese enterprises naviga... 860
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 20 UOB strengthens regional cyber resilience amid rising ecosystem risks UOB’s group CISO Tobias Gondrom outlines how it is strengthening cyber resilience across ASEAN through ecosystem-wide defences, AI-enabled detection... 888
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 19 HSBC readies for quantum era with crypto agility and industry pilots HSBC's Tancy Tan outlines a pragmatic, regulation-aligned quantum strategy focused on crypto-agility, early pilots, ecosystem collaboration and buildi... 896
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... 695
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... 694
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 17 Italy builds fintech bridges with Singapore and ASEAN for the next decade Italy’s ambassador to Singapore and Brunei Dante Brandi, trade commissioner Giorgio Calveri and Italia Fintech vice president Massimo Ruffolo outlin... 837
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 17 JP Morgan builds unified payments backbone for digital and fintech platforms across the globe JP Morgan is strengthening its global payments infrastructure to support digital platforms, fintechs and corporates as Asia’s real-time and embedded... 1180
Opinion Nov 04 China’s AI innovation model and its global implications China’s AI model fuses technology, policy and finance into an integrated system, offering global lessons amid distinct local conditions.... 302
Interviews Oct 21 UOB builds bridges for beyond borders investment in ASEAN UOB’s FDI Advisory Unit guides corporates expanding across ASEAN, with Jimmy Koh outlining its focus on emerging regional economic corridors and par... 1595
Interviews Oct 17 audax redefines digital banking economics through embedded finance Across Asia’s digital-banking landscape, embedded finance is emerging as a structural advantage. Smriti Gupta, chief financial officer of audax, exp... 1526
Sibos Round Up Oct 16 Finastra launches Trade Innovation Nexus to tackle interoperability, compliance and fraud in trade finance At Sibos Frankfurt 2025, Manish Joshi, managing director for Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa at Finastra’s lending business, explained how the ... 1484
Sibos Round Up Oct 13 FIS identifies partnerships, modernisation and AI as key enabler for smoother, compliant, customer-focused payments Andrew Murray, head of international banking and payments at FIS, said today’s rapidly evolving ecosystem marks the industry’s most transformative... 983
Sibos Round Up Oct 08 BNY builds inclusive, interoperable payment infrastructure for the next frontier of finance At Sibos Frankfurt 2025, Isabel Schmidt, Executive Platform Owner for BNY’s Enterprise Payments Enablement, outlined how the bank is creating a sing... 1124
Sibos Round Up Oct 01 Standard Chartered builds data-rich platforms for an AI-led future Sunday Domingo, global head of digital channels solutions at Standard Chartered, said at Sibos Frankfurt 2025 that the ISO 20022 migration is only the... 1394
Site Visits Sep 09 AI at scale in infrastructure, commerce and finance in Shanghai China AI Innovation Study Tour 2025 opened in Shanghai, showing AI’s role in infrastructure, commerce, and financial services via leading firms.... 1738
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... 13154
Interviews Jun 16 BPI deepens its support for small businesses through digital innovation and customer- centric solutions With one of the largest small business loan books in the Philippines, BPI is reimagining business banking for small enterprises by investing in digita... 3912
Leadership Awards May 26 Masahiro Kihara awarded Best Bank CEO in Japan for reshaping corporate culture and driving sustainable growth Masahiro Kihara’s bold leadership transformed Mizuho’s culture and growth, earning him the title of Best Bank CEO in Japan and securing the group... 2567
Institutional Awards Apr 07 UOB recognised as Best SME Bank in Singapore UOB, recognised as the Best SME Bank in Singapore at The Asian Banker International Excellence in Retail Financial Services Awards 2025, has a holisti... 3440
Conference Feb 21 Japan Banking Innovation Conference 2025 - Transforming finance through agentic AI, digital assets and quantum computing The Japan Banking Innovation Conference 2025, held at The Westin Tokyo, convened over a hundred senior banking executives, fintech leaders, policymake... 5674
Interviews Nov 14 Libeara on democratising access to asset tokenisation Aaron Gwak, founder and CEO of Libeara, discussed how his SC Ventures-backed platform is advancing asset tokenisation, sharing its approach to bridgin... 4616
Interviews Nov 08 Singapore’s central bank establishes network to drive global fintech innovation The Global Finance & Technology Network was unveiled by chairman Ravi Menon at the Singapore FinTech Festival 2024. The network promotes collaboration... 3378
Aug 26 Taiwan’s leading banks prioritise innovation, regional expansion, and sustainability Industry leaders convened at Finance Taiwan to discuss the future of digital finance, regional expansion strategies, and the integration of sustainabi... 3931
Interviews Jul 07 Tanoto Foundation Medical Philanthropy bridges funding gaps in medical research The Tanoto Foundation held its inaugural Medical Philanthropy Forum to award the first recipients of its Medical Research Fund grants.The event unders... 4278
Trendwatch Mar 11 Unveiling the future of finance, embracing a new digital horizon TABInsights’ global benchmarks in retail and digital banks, and financial platforms, signal a significant shift towards digital transformations... 6530
Opinion Feb 13 SVB collapse sets off underwriting-risk alarm Silicon Valley Bank’s 2023 collapse continues to raise concerns in the echo chambers of the banking sector over slack lending practices and underwri... 4650
Feb 06 Global financial institutions propel blockchain innovation under Project Guardian Banks aim to integrate blockchain into mainstream finance for digital assets, emphasising institutional-grade standards, interoperability, and collabo... 25625
Excerpt Jan 17 RHB Bank enhances ecosystem collaborations and segment synergies Jeffrey Ng, Managing Director of Group Community Banking at RHB, shares the bank's strategic focus on integrating digital solutions for mortgage and a... 3241
Interviews Nov 29 HashKey Group to strengthen Web3 ecosystem, ramp up offerings At Hong Kong FinTech Week 2023, Anna Liu, general manager of tokenisation at HashKey Group, and Leo Li, CEO of the subsidiary HashQuark, talked about ... 2190
Interviews Nov 22 Austrade’s Betty Sun-Lucas and SFA’s Shadab Taiyabi: “The Australia-Singapore connection offers numerous partnership and cross-selling opportunities” Betty Sun-Lucas of Austrade and Shadab Taiyabi of the Singapore FinTech Association delved into Project Lorikeet, explaining how this collaborative in... 2163
interviews Aug 06 Ping An Global Voyager’s Lacey: “We are driven by the inexorable convergence of technology and traditional finance” Donald Lacey, managing director and chief operating officer of Ping An Global Voyager Fund discusses the investment philosophy of the company, the the... 10058
