It's the most wonderful time of the year for ABF!

Asian Banking & Finance will be back on 8 January 2024.

We're taking the time off!

It's been a long year! For the holidays, Santa and his elves are going to get cosy for a while and enjoy the Christmas chill. We won't be back until 8 January 2024. Have a Happy Christmas and see you back in the new year!

In the meantime, have a look back at some of our most read articles and exclusives in 2023:

• How OCBC’s blockchain expertise is powering Singapore’s digital currency ambitions

• GCash eyes “biggest IPO” title, overseas expansion in 2024

• How NETS is helping SMEs get the right data to raise their revenue

• HSBC SG's Tancy Tan on balancing risk and innovation in AI adoption

• Trust Bank sets the bar for digital banking in Asia Pacific

• Greenwashing in banking: real concern or overblown issue?

• Why the bank of the future is not really a bank

• DBS's Sanjoy Sen explores digital currency, future M&A opportunities

• Revised rules bolster Korean banks’ competition, but no silver bullet to thriving: analysts

• Vietnam’s 2050 energy transition plan sparks green lending surge

• Hiring freeze felt as HK banks focus on talent development

• TG Limcaoco on how 170-year-old BPI is reinventing itself in the digital era

• End of cheap money era: Maybank’s Alvin Lee on investing in an era of wealth preservation, protectionism

• Hong Kong’s livi bank launches game-changing app for SMEs

• 1 in 5 of OCBC’s home, renovation, and car loans now green

• Did digital banks fail to disrupt?

• Banks lagging behind net zero energy goals

• DBS’ Lareina Wang on why role models matter to women in banking

• UOB’s Jacquelyn Tan on triumphing over expectations, biases to succeed in the banking industry