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Islamic lenders hit digital wall on slow rollout
Islamic lenders hit digital wall on slow rollout
Products don’t evolve quickly due to extra layers of review.
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Maybank Indonesia shifts to selective lending
The listed bank wants to ensure growth remains disciplined and resilient.
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Treasurers need better cash visibility as payments accelerate.
BTN expands beyond mortgages into retail banking
Wealth management is a key part of the shift.
UOB’s Lim Lay Wah: Supplier readiness key to sustainability
Financing alone is rarely enough.
Citi's Isobel Nordstrom guides Asian banks through change
Clients increasingly seek the lender’s advice on supply chains, trade, and risks.
StanChart’s Xie Wen drives global expansion for SMEs
Her engineering background taught her to solve problems with data and tech.
Dah Sing revamps banking platform for SMEs
It combines remote onboarding, business hubs, fee cuts, and an FX debit card.
BofA’s Winnie Chen charts real-time payment path
Companies want simplicity and certainty as they move funds across borders.
Yoonmee Jeong drives OCBC’s green finance push in Asia
The wager is that transition finance will expand even if the alliances around it do not.
HSBC sees Hong Kong driving global RMB adoption
Vina Cheung expects RMB to rise to the third most-used global payment currency.
Digital wallets, agentic AI to speed up payments
The focus is on agentic systems that can act on behalf of users.
Philippine rural banks face merger pressure with tighter capital rules
Many lenders in the countryside have little capital buffer.
How digital payments are forcing QSRs to rebuild checkout and staffing
They're redesigning counters and drive-thrus for QR codes and e-wallets.
BNI speeds approvals as centralised trade platform takes hold
Processing is now completed in less than 24 hours.
Mastercard pushes tokenisation as payments go passive
Transactions fade into the background when there’s trust.
Crédit Agricole unifies CIB and wealth arms in 43,400 sqft hub
An internal staircase now connects the corporate and wealth management teams across two levels.
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