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Banks in Southeast Asia Want AI, But Can They Trust It?

Ant Digital Technologies’ Leo Li says that Southeast Asia banks want AI, but it will all depend on trust built through real ...
Institutional Investor

Asia's Banks Are Crisis Ready

It was a spectacle reminiscent of the worst days of the late-1990s Asian financial crisis: Throngs of depositors descended on branches of Bank of East Asia across Hong Kong last September, worried ...
Global Finance

Asia’s Banks On The Fast Track

Asia’s big banks are elbowing out their Western rivals as demand for financial services skyrockets in the region—and beyond. One of the great ironies lost in the panic of the global financial crisis ...
Yahoo Finance

Analysis-Asia Pacific banks face growing credit risks, raise provisions as Iran war drags on

HONG KONG/SYDNEY, May 14 (Reuters) - Asia Pacific banks may have to raise their loan loss provisions further in the near-term as the Iran conflict darkens economic prospects in the region heavily ...
Yahoo Finance

Banks in Asia brace for complex cyber threats from frontier AI

SINGAPORE/HONG KONG, April 30 (Reuters) - Banks across Asia, including those in Singapore - among the region's largest - are tightening checks on artificial intelligence tools ‌as the very newest ...
Global Finance

GCC Banks Look To Asia

GCC banks are expanding their footprint in Asia-Pacific, now the Gulf’s number-one trade partner. While Western economies struggle with the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing war in ...
CoinDesk

Asia Morning Briefing: Asia's Banks Look to Stablecoins to Prevent Deposit Flight

Good Morning, Asia. Here's what's making news in the markets: Welcome to Asia Morning Briefing, a daily summary of top stories during U.S. hours and an overview of market moves and analysis. For a ...
Euromoney

Digital banks play catch up in Asia

Transaction banks in Asia have been relatively slow to move away from manual processes. PwC’s 2023 digital banking survey stated that it was imperative for banks in southeast Asia to accelerate their ...
NBC New York

Asia's central banks face a formidable challenge: An ascendant U.S. dollar

Central banks in Asia face a catch-22 in 2025. A relentless rise in the U.S. dollar has sent Asian currencies such as the Japanese yen, South Korean won, Chinese yuan and the Indian rupee reeling to ...
Euromoney

Asia’s best bank: HSBC

For the second year in a row, HSBC walks away with the award for Asia’s best bank – and deservedly so. Outgoing chief executive Noel Quinn’s decisive move in early 2020 to pivot to Asia by redeploying ...

Asia Pacific banks face growing credit risks, raise provisions as Iran war drags on

Asia Pacific banks may have to raise their loan ​loss provisions further in the near-term as the Iran conflict darkens economic prospects in the region heavily reliant on Middle Eastern oil, analysts ...