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From stablecoins to sovereignty: The rise of trust-based digital dollar systems

Asia is building digital dollar systems to reduce reliance on US-dominated stablecoins.

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From stablecoins to sovereignty: The rise of trust-based digital dollar systems

Asia is building digital dollar systems to reduce reliance on US-dominated stablecoins.

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Banks need to rethink identity governance for AI agents

As AI moves from assisting to acting autonomously, they need to be governed the way banks govern a user with access.

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Indonesia’s banks need faster fraud decisions as digital payments grow

More payments to process and customer behaviour to interpret means less time to spot when something looks wrong.

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China’s leasing giants are growing up — and Asia’s banks can’t look away

Competing on size is giving way to competing on specialised knowledge and asset expertise.

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Adapting to change with confidence

Regulation is reshaping banking across Asia, as demand for resilience, AI, reporting, and oversight evolves.

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Asia plays part in $129t global credit market pool

This pool is financing beyond traditional banks who are constrained in lending, particularly at longer-tenors.

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How alternative data lending is reaching Southeast Asia's unscored MSMEs

The challenge in micro-lending is that small business data does not fit into standard banking templates.

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Asia is leading payments modernisation and banks can't afford to fall behind

By partnering with fintechs, banks can combine regulatory strength with innovation, new use cases, and customer-centric solutions.

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Investing in an inefficient market

In Indonesia, price manipulation remains common, regulatory enforcement requires improvement, and liquidity is thin.

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Platinum cards, paper-thin compliance?

Retail platforms are going upscale, but their compliance frameworks aren’t.

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Energy price volatility highlights structural gaps for managing FX risk in APAC

The Japanese yen, Korean won, and Indian rupee can experience sensitivity to energy price shifts and US dollar strength.

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Asia’s electronic markets reach an inflection point of transformation

Across volatility, multi-asset trading, and digital assets, technology is increasingly viewed as essential to navigating complexity.

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Tokenisation in the Philippines: The consumer is ready, but is the infrastructure?

Being token-ready involves much more than switching on wallet acceptance.

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Asian firms need to get ready for digital assets and currencies

Whether it’s for retail or corporate customers, what banks can offer is not simply execution but preparation.

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AI can build your plan, but can it hold you to it?

AI can produce a data-rich financial plan. The question is whether you will be sticking to that plan when markets misbehave.

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Built to last: How Japan is approaching the cross-border payments challenge

Japan is extending it until the reliability it has delivered domestically is matched by when a payment leaves borders.

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Asia’s 20% advantage: The simplification strategy rewriting banking from Singapore to Shanghai

Agentic AI combined with radical simplification can slash operational costs.

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