Co-published Dec 10 E.SUN leads Taiwan’s banking sector in SME financing and fraud prevention E.SUN Bank is strengthening Taiwan’s financial ecosystem through AI-driven credit evaluation, advanced fraud prevention and deep support for SMEs. I... 332
Co-published Dec 09 Cathay United Bank recognised with five major awards from The Asian Banker in 2025 Cathay United Bank secures five major awards in 2025, highlighting excellence in digital transformation, AI innovation, mobile banking, analytics and ... 413
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... 1623
HK Fintech Week Nov 25 Maya leverages AI to advance financial inclusion in the Philippines At Hong Kong FinTech Week 2025, Maya Group CTO Alfred Lo explained how AI is expanding financial access and education in the Philippines, where most p... 915
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... 974
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... 982
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 18 QAI Ventures positions Singapore as Asia’s launchpad for quantum innovation QAI Ventures' Lisa Schröder views Singapore as Asia’s quantum–AI commercial hub, helping deep-tech founders scale optimisation and modelling solu... 647
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 17 Visa discusses how AI and value-added services are addressing acceptance and fraud challenges Visa’s Axel Boye-Moller explains how AI-driven fraud detection, acceptance optimisation and modular innovation are strengthening trust, resilience a... 1263
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... 1286
Round Up Oct 27 Technology partners build the new foundation of global finance with AI, cloud and interoperability AI, cloud-native platforms and open interoperability are rebuilding global financial infrastructure, enabling secure, resilient and programmable payme... 1458
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 ... 1536
Sibos Round Up Oct 14 Temenos launches AI-infused money-movement platform to modernise cross-border and domestic payments At Sibos Frankfurt 2025, Temenos’ Mick Fennell unveiled money-movement solution leveraging AI, APIs, ISO 20022 and cloud to streamline payments.... 1410
Sibos Round Up Oct 07 Mizuho advances on tokenised deposits, AI and cybersecurity partnerships to modernise cross-border payments and trade finance At Sibos Frankfurt 2025, Mizuho’s Ashutosh Kumar outlined tokenised deposits, blockchain, AI and partnerships enabling faster, secure, interoperable... 1446
Sibos Round Up Oct 07 Bank of America embeds AI and data to transform corporate payments At Sibos Frankfurt 2025, Winnie Chen, head of global payment solutions for Asia Pacific at Bank of America, explained how interoperability, data insig... 1050
Sibos Round Up Oct 07 ACI Worldwide builds cloud-native hub and intelligent orchestration to power instant and cross-border payments At Sibos 2025, ACI’s Philip Bruno outlined how ACI Connetic enables faster, safer, programmable payments with intelligent orchestration and fraud pr... 1262
Sibos Round Up Oct 07 Standard Chartered pushes interoperability and risk mitigation to scale trade digitisation At Sibos Frankfurt 2025, Standard Chartered’s Samuel Mathew highlighted leveraging network, standards, and tech partnerships to reduce risk, acceler... 15748
Interviews Sep 19 Bank of America focuses on resilience, predictability and advisory at Sibos Frankfurt Ahead of Sibos 2025, Bank of America’s Christian Stolcke, Greg Kavanaugh, Winnie Chen, Phil Carmalt and Terence Tan discuss how macro shifts, rails ... 2462
Interviews Sep 17 Resilience and security at the core of Standard Chartered’s growth Standard Chartered makes technology resilience a board priority, addressing AI fraud, regulatory fragmentation, and supply chain risks to sustain trus... 4132
Site Visits Sep 15 AI and digital finance in practice at OneConnect, Lexin and WeBank Delegates of the China AI Innovation Study Tour visited OneConnect, Lexin and WeBank in Shenzhen. ... 1827
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.... 1811
Interviews Aug 28 Stripe’s strategy for AI and stablecoins in APAC Asia Pacific is at the heart of Stripe’s global growth plans. With localised infrastructure, stablecoin-based accounts, and AI embedded into payment... 3029
Leadership Awards Aug 11 Khairussaleh Ramli awarded Best Bank CEO in Malaysia for transformative leadership and strategic discipline Khairussaleh Ramli’s bold and disciplined leadership has propelled Maybank’s customer-focused digital transformation, sustainability commitments a... 4228
Roundtable Jun 05 Banks recalibrate cross-border payment strategies and orchestrate platforms for a real- time, multi-rail world Banks are moving beyond legacy rail limitations to build orchestrated, customer-centric payment platforms. From consolidating real-time rails and dome... 2910
Institutional Awards May 29 Clearstream Fund Centre, KB Kookmin Bank, Bangkok Bank and BIDV recognised for excellence in financial markets technology infrastructure and custody services Clearstream Fund Centre, KB Kookmin Bank, Bangkok Bank and BIDV were recognised at the TAB Global Business Achievement Awards in Jakarta, Indonesia.... 2176
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, ... 6569
News Analysis Mar 20 High-frequency banking powers seamless digital finance As the banking industry shifts to high-frequency interactions, AI, open banking and embedded finance drive real-time services, requiring financial ins... 2510
Conference Mar 03 Thai banks ponder a future defined by speed, collaboration and customer experience in the AI era How banks in Thailand can harness emerging technologies, reinvent collaboration and create a seamless, boundary-less customer experience.... 3815
Trendwatch Feb 24 Digital and retail banking trends in 2025 The digital and retail banking sectors continue to evolve, driven by innovation, rapid development and adoption of generative artificial intelligence ... 3365
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... 5724
Site Visits Feb 18 Advancing frontiers in fintech, AI, robotics and space exploration On Day 1, the Japan Innovation Study Tour 2025 opened with a welcome from tour hosts Foo Boon Ping, president and managing editor of The Asian Banker,... 2185
Interviews Nov 12 Mastercard combats rising fraud with AI and global collaboration At the Singapore Fintech Festival 2024, Matthew Driver, executive vice president, head of services at Mastercard Asia Pacific, highlighted that as acc... 3270
TABLive Oct 23 How does Temenos see the way for ISO 20022 transition, AI deployment and resilient design At Sibos 2024 in Beijing, Temenos business director Frankie Wai addressed some issues in financial services today: the ISO 20022 transition, the integ... 2890
TABLive Oct 23 Deutsche Bank navigates future of payments with focus on ISO 20022 and financial crime prevention At Sibos 2024 in Beijing, Sebastien Avot, managing director and APAC head of institutional cash and trade finance at Deutsche Bank, shared insights on... 3511
Interviews Sep 06 How will BNY’s innovations drive the future of cross-border payments in Asia Pacific Jennifer Barker, global head of treasury services and depositary receipts at BNY, discussed the rapid evolution of cross-border payments in Asia Pacif... 7577
Speeches and Presentations May 30 Tay Ah Lek of Public Bank receives the William ‘Bill’ Seidman Award for Lifetime Achievement The William ‘Bill’ Seidman Award for Lifetime Achievement was conferred on Tay Ah Lek, managing director and CEO of Public Bank, at The Asian Bank... 8129
Speeches and Presentations May 24 Innovation and resilience—What’s on the supervisors’ radar? In his opening keynote at The Asian Banker Summit 2024, Arthur Yuen, Deputy Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, explored the dual imp... 5023
Speeches and Presentations Mar 08 Digital Banking Annual Meeting 2024: Shaping the future through AI Industry leaders converged in Seoul to explore the transformative potential of emerging technologies like AI and blockchain, and highlighted the imper... 3051
Speeches and Presentations Mar 08 Digital Banking Annual Meeting 2024: Shaping the future through AI Industry leaders converged in Seoul to explore the transformative potential of emerging technologies like AI and blockchain, and highlighted the imper... 22616
Interviews Nov 30 Nium’s Gandhi: “We are trying to change how payments work” Nium co-founder and COO Pratik Gandhi discussed the company’s global real-time payments expansion. Since acquiring its Australian licence seven year... 2763
Sibos Round Up Oct 10 Top 10 takeaways from SWIFT at SIBOS 2023 Key takeaways from Sibos 2023: highlighting the importance of collaboration in addressing cross-border payment challenges, reducing transaction fricti... 3774
Research Note Sep 12 Promising AI companies poised to transform financial services Generative AI is emerging as a game-changer, with new developments from the most promising companies in the field pushing its use... 9067
Panel Discussion Jul 27 ChatGPT’s impact on finance Panellists discussed ChatGPT and AI in data analytics, core banking systems, the cloud, customers and products, watching over biases and limitations a... 6192
Speech Jul 24 NatWest’s Howard Davies: “The rise of neobanks, fintechs and AI challenges traditional banking” Howard Davies, chairman of National Westminster Group, delivered an insightful speech at The Asian Banker Future of Finance Summit held in Bangkok, Th... 5433
Perspectives Mar 01 Banks face escalating battle in fight against digital fraud With the proliferation of digital frauds in consumer and corporate banking, innovative mechanisms beyond bolstering the security of digital banking ar... 10230
News Analysis Nov 11 Techcombank partners with AWS in cloud migration Techcombank partnered with cloud computing platform Amazon Web Services to enhance the bank’s cloud capabilities and to promote cloud adoption in Vi... 9301
Opinion Sep 01 Lawyers Ashhab and Chan: “Cryptocurrency-related fraud to rise by 75% in 2021” With the rise of cryptocurrency fraud, appropriate legal remedies are needed to mitigate risk and recover stolen assets. The ongoing pandemic has incr... 23698
interviews Jun 22 Grammig Advisory’s founder: “Next generation family offices more open to cryptocurrencies” David Grammig, founder and managing director of consultancy firm Grammig Advisory, discussed the growth of family offices in Europe and other parts of... 9781
Sibos Round Up Sep 08 Fiserv’s Chance: “Information is the cornerstone that’s driving fintech” David Chance, Fiserv’s vice president of payments strategy and innovation, talks about how payment systems are shaking up the industry as well as th... 7205
Interviews Jul 12 Interview Transcript: "We need to keep investing in technology and people driving technology" ... 5098