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... 5613
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... 2642
News Analysis Feb 22 The scandal that is shaking Malaysia’s financial sector The scandal surrounding Malaysia’s 1MDB state development fund is making an impact on the country’s economy and banking system. 3568
Interviews Feb 22 Silent Eight’s Markiewicz: "Costs force fighting fraud to shift from people to AI" While banks have tools in place to fight financial crime, many are manual and expensive Using AI-based tools can help banks escape... 22428
News Analysis Feb 22 Facebook's Libra will rival US monetary system cites US House Financial Services Committee A month ago, varied reactions greeted Facebook’s (FB) revelation, sharing its plans to launch a new digital wallet along with a new global curren... 15048
Current Account Feb 22 Mastercard and Island Pay launch CBDC linked prepaid card in the Bahamas Mastercard and Island Pay partnered to launch a prepaid card linked to the Sand dollar The Sand dollar was earlier launched in Oct... 6379
News Analysis Feb 22 Techcombank partners with AWS in cloud migration Techcombank has partnered with AWS to move to the cloud Financial institutions in Southeast Asia are increasingly migrating core f... 6870
Sibos Round Up Feb 22 Decentralised finance and Web 3.0 shaping the future of financial services Adoption of Web 3.0 and the evolving landscape with challenges and risks Data and AI-driven transformation in Web 3.0 ... 89
Risk Management Feb 22 Can Singapore’s banks keep up with money laundering tactics? For centuries, Singapore has been a vibrant hub for trade and commerce across Asia and the world. In the second half of the 20th century... 3588
Excerpt Feb 22 GXS to leverage its ecosystem for sustainable profit Charles Wong, CEO of GXS Bank, believes the path to profitability in a fiercely competitive market lies in its ability to uncover the un... 1657
Current Account Feb 22 MAS launches digital platform to fight money laundering and terrorism financing The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has launched a centralised digital platform called COSMIC to curb illicit financing by facilitating the s... 4309
Research Note Feb 22 UNPUBLISHED Rapid developments in institutional crypto in recent months The last half-year has witnessed an unprecedented acceleration in the adoption of cryptocurrency by financial institutions (FIs) be... 58
Interviews Feb 22 Buna poised to transform cross-border payments in the Arab region and beyond Buna was officially launched in February 2020 by the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) and operates under the framework of the Arab Regional Payments Clear... 1855
Interviews Feb 22 Feedzai’s Tom Clifford: “Responsible AI is very critical” The company is a pioneer in real-time big data analytics. Initially focused on preventing fraud in the United States and Europe, it quic... 425
