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Sri Lanka cuts vehicle and gold loan caps to strengthen lender buffers
Sri Lanka cuts vehicle and gold loan caps to strengthen lender buffers
Motor car financing LTV cap is lower to 60%, whilst gold-backed lending LTV limit was reduced to 70%.
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India wallets crush cards with 68% online share
UPI helped push wallets ahead of every other online payment method in 2025.
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IPOs spur Hong Kong bank hiring rebound
Workforce across 15 lenders fell 0.73% to 74,376 in 2025.
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How can Singapore’s big banks offset weaker lending margins?
Net interest income at DBS, OCBC, and UOB is expected to fall this year.
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APAC receives $926b in cross-border C2C flows
The Middle East contributes $323b into the region in 2025.
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Singapore banks stretch hiring as caution deepens
Headcount across 15 lenders rose just 0.005% in 2025.
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AI exposes wealth advisers’ 70% admin drag
Deloitte says relationship work takes only about 30% of current schedules.
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Australia's Big 4 stockpiles $22.8b amidst Middle East war fears
Business lending tops 34% whilst homebuyers still prefer brokers.
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AI finance market races toward $92b in APAC by 2032
China, Japan, and India remain the largest markets in the region.
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How are banks strengthening buffers against oil price shocks?
China-based banks will likely bear the largest impact.
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Singapore's Big 3 banks eye 6% profit growth on wealth momentum
DBS and OCBC are expected to have higher PATMIs than previously forecasted.
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Why 52.9% of fintech firms back open banking growth
Respondents expect wider API ecosystems to emerge over the next 2 to 3 years.
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China new yuan loans shrink $1.47b in April as credit demand stalls
Loans remained concentrated on policy-supported sectors, according to Fitch Ratings.
Do banks choose tokenised deposits over stablecoins to guard their balance sheets?
Banks are ramping up tokenised deposit infrastructure use whilst tokenised central bank money remains in the experimental phase.
Australia card payments slow as GlobalData sees $790b in 2026
Contactless use in public transport is helping sustain everyday card activity.
Stablecoin circulation lags at $300b as banks focus on tokenised deposits
Banks are instead building tokenised deposit infrastructures, whose flows have reached over $4t annually.
More than half of Filipinos have financial accounts but few hold bank accounts
Lack of money and unemployment were amongst the biggest barriers to opening a bank account.
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