Research Note Feb 22 Focus on integrated solutions and regional capabilities The transaction banking business in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region is being transformed by an increased focus by financial institutions to... 3390
Research Note Feb 22 The problem is not adoption but use of technology According to the Saudi Arabia Monetary Authority Financial Stability Report 2015 (the report), banks in Saudi Arabia comprise the largest segment o... 2638
Research Note Feb 22 Democratisation of banking services puts focus on relationships over products West Africa’s retail banking industry is growing at a rapid pace, with growing competition in the once under-served retail banking and SME spaces... 3172
Interviews Feb 22 Interview Transcript: “HKTDC is going to be that super connector between the investors of the world” Property developer and Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) chairman Vincent Lo is upbeat not just about the Hong Kong property market but a... 2851
Interviews Feb 22 Interview Transcript: “The finance industry has created an environment so complex and beyond their cleverness to run” Emmanuel Daniel (ED): I'm very pleased to be able to speak to John Kay, economics commentator, professor, and someone who’s worked very c... 2710
News Analysis Feb 22 Half successful and half failed: The $1 billion cyber hacking attempt on Bangladesh Bank It is now being regarded as the world’s biggest attempted cyber heist on just one financial institution. An attempt to hack $1 billion from Bangl... 5618
Interviews Feb 22 Interview: "The fintech ecosystem in London is collaborative and powerful” The UK is one of the fastest growing regions for fintech investment. According to UK Trade and Investment (UKTI), fintech deal volumes have been gr... 3300
Interviews Feb 22 Interview: "The GCC region is faring better than any other region in the dollar clearing business" Emmanuel Daniel (ED): There is a lot of interest from the international community in the way the UAE is responding to the global economic c... 2646
Research Note Feb 22 Crowdlending tries to make its mark in Asia Pacific New developments in financial technology, the improved availability of public personal information, better internet bandwidth, minimal regulations,... 4661
Interviews Feb 22 Interview: “China is creating more capital market-enabled financial systems through technology platforms” Emmanuel Daniel, The Banking Conversation (ED): Lufax is one of the pioneering and perhaps largest and most successful peer-to-peer (P2P) l... 5679
Opinions Feb 22 From fintech to techfin: data is the new oil When I arrived in Hong Kong slightly over a year ago to build a fintech accelerator, I knew three things. First, inspire my generation to j... 5050
Research Note Feb 22 Vietnam banks: Putting their money in retail banking and technology Vietnam’s banking sector suffers from problems of inefficiency, undercapitalisation, and increasing cross-ownership among banks, all of which hav... 9947
Interviews Feb 22 Interview Transcript: “The finance industry has created an environment so complex and beyond their cleverness to run” Emmanuel Daniel (ED): I'm very pleased to be able to speak to John Kay, economics commentator, professor, and someone who’s worked very c... 920
Interviews Feb 22 Interview: “We intend to operate as an ally rather than to compete with banks” In a rapidly growing fintech sector success revolves around the ability to leverage innovation and disruptive technology to solve real world busine... 3130
Interviews Feb 22 Interview Transcript: "We need to keep investing in technology and people driving technology" Emmanuel Daniel (ED): I am very pleased to speak today with Osama Al Rahma, chairman of the Foreign Exchange and Remittance Group, a centra... 3232
Research Note Feb 22 Basel II: The precursor of an integrated risk management framework for Vietnamese banks Vietnamese banks are almost Basel II-compliant with the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) instructing 10 banks to complete pilot practice by 2018<... 7362
Co-published Feb 22 Enabling seamless customer experience through digital transformation of channels Asian Banker Research shows that a large component of direct retail sales (asset and liability products) is still focused on branches. Digit... 4136
Research Note Feb 22 Cash management technology – race towards centralising, digitising and future-proofing Cash management banks have utilised information technology in three core areas – centralisation, digitisation and collaboration - in the f... 3441
Research Note Feb 22 Holistic enterprise-wide digitisation is the key to success in the Indian banking industry Embrace digitisation and integrate systems, channels and data analytics for better service capability Focus on finance and risk in... 4013
News Analysis Feb 22 Cross-selling scandal at Wells Fargo is overhyped Wells Fargo employees have been pressured by ambitious and arbitrarily set sales targets ... 5212
Research Note Feb 22 Disruption forces banks in Asia Pacific to refocus their technology investments A more challenging operating environment that has impacted profits is forcing banks to trim their cost structures and invest in technology... 5891
News Analysis Feb 22 Relooking the transaction banking value proposition Banks are investing in resources to better appreciate and understand the risk appetites of customers 6578
Proceedings Report Feb 22 What we learnt from the digital disruptors in China The Asian Banker held the China Innovation Tour from November 21-25, which included site visits in selected banks, companies, innovation labs... 5584
Research Note Feb 22 Basel capital showdown pits US against Europe Basel regulators want a so-called capital floor to reduce the reliance on banks' own calculations of risk weighted assets US offic... 2318
News Analysis Feb 22 Mystery shopping becomes an important supervisory tool in retail banking Regulators are using mystery shopping to monitor practices in the retail banking industry to protect the consumers and identify possible mal... 10020
Opinions Feb 22 Working together to leverage Asia’s trade opportunities Despite a challenging landscape, Asian trade remains resilient 4103
Research Note Feb 22 Banks embrace digital innovation but find it hard to make substantial changes to its conventional business model Banks are moving more products and services on their digital platform to get acquired fully straight-through processes An increasi... 3188
Research Note Feb 22 Vietnamese banks are playing a risky game Differentiation, profitability, and customer-oriented digital adoption remain major challenges in Vietnam’s growing retail banking industr... 8116
Research Note Feb 22 Chatbots must become "smarter" for banks The popularity of chatbots is slowly rising due to their improved capabilities The benefits of chatbots are driving usage well bey... 4713
Research Note Feb 22 Bots deliver better customer experience http://www.theasianbanker.com/updates-and-articles/chatbots-must-become-smarter-for-banks... 3580
Research Note Feb 22 Incentives collide for China’s Belt and Road Belt and Road Initiative’s geopolitical nature could lead China and its host countries to take on too much debt Fitch’s Kalai ... 3962
AB500 Feb 22 An unrelenting lack of normality Chinese banks continued to dominate the list of AB 500 largest banks and also the list of the top 20 largest banks Basel capital a... 5381
AB500 Feb 22 Capital and liquidity improved in the Middle East 2016 has been a challenging year for Middle Eastern banks, due to low oil prices, economic uncertainty and political instability in the regi... 8773
Research Note Feb 22 Continuous focus on technology investment, operational excellence and customer service Revenues from transaction banking have risen over time with most of the growth drivers coming from the sma... 3156
Datafiles Feb 22 Top 100 retail banks in Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa The ranking is based on The Asian Banker’s market leading balanced scorecard methodology, which assesses financial institutions across ten... 30457
Research Note Feb 22 End-to-end and innovative supply chain finance dominates priority A renewed push to end-to-end supply chain financing has come from the “Industry 4.0” revolution Despite the slowdown in RMB in... 3590
Interviews Feb 22 BNY Mellon’s Brown: “We force our teams to think we need collaboration” BNY Mellon uses design thinking as a way of changing the way it approaches problems Hans Brown shared that the proble... 3402
Opinions Feb 22 The splintering of the global regulatory world One of the biggest problems facing the financial services is that the explosion of rules has led to misunderstanding and contradiction ... 4675
Co-published article Feb 22 China CITIC Bank International leverages new integrated treasury platform to drive expansion and compliance The bank faced challenges with five different legacy systems, which lacked the pricing and flexible structuring and advanced risk manage... 8005
Commissioned Report Feb 22 2018人民币国际化报告:“一带一路”助力人民币国际化 报告显示人民币国际化水平有所提升,“一带一路”倡议是重要驱动因素 年人民币参与度显著提升... 20571