Research Note Feb 22 Banks need to leverage their superior product knowledge to stay relevant East Africa’s retail banking industry is growing at a rapid pace with banks using technology to target customer segments that were once too costl... 3861
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... 3170
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... 3185
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... 30452
Interviews Feb 22 Lu International's Wong: "Customising technology for markets draws in wealthy customers" Lu International has leveraged leading-edge technology from Chinese parent company Lufax and customised its wealth management app for local ... 15731
Datafiles Feb 22 Employment outlook remains positive due to digitalisation and new regulations There was an article hiring of tech talent in Asia Pacific last year, and this trend is set to continue in 2019 on the back of continuous developme... 7032
Research Note Feb 22 New players, new practices and new technologies in an evolving payments landscape Payments are a key battleground in financial services, and rightly so. “On the banking side,” PayU CEO Laurent le Moal observed, “banks have ... 3992
Interview Feb 22 Westpac's Duncan: “We need to welcome partnerships to drive innovation” A handful of fintechs with global scale may threaten banks, though within niches Even though internal innovation is i... 5316
Speech Feb 22 Big tech in finance: opportunities and risks The big techs were one of the topics during the recently-concluded Bank for International Settlement’s annual general meeting held in Basel, Swit... 5036
Research Note Feb 22 How Wirecard’s exit may impact the future of payment processing in Asia Traditional payment platforms saddled by low-margins and competitive pressures Alternative payment integration providers seeking m... 14100
Research Note Feb 22 Big tech disruptors find dividends of financial services come at a price Chinese tech giants have been forced to definancialise and now see themselves as technology enablers across a range of industries including ... 7537
Research Note Feb 22 Leadership in a pandemic - Extraordinary circumstances require exceptional responses Leadership in times of crisis is very different from leading in normal times. The challenge for leaders is to adjust to radically new situations an... 5365
Sibos Round Up Feb 22 DBS, Microsoft, StanChart CEOs see financial services thrive in 2021 with accelerated digital transformation DBS Bank CEO, Piyush Gupta, and his counterparts at Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart), Bill Winters, and Microsoft, Satya Nadella, discussed how ... 5354
Research Note Feb 22 Cloud adoption accelerates among banks with unique strategies Competition posed by challenger banks accelerate drive for cloud adoption Multi-cloud and hybrid approach to address IT risk ... 21641
Opinions Feb 22 “Financial inclusion is a lie” Financial inclusion is a cornerstone of economic development, yet how the industry ascertains its success is often less exacting than what the numb... 9458
Research Note Feb 22 Promising AI companies poised to transform financial services Financial services are undergoing a technological revolution, fuelled by advancements in artificial intelligence (AI). Generative AI, a subset of A... 6957
