JPMorgan remained the revenue leader. Global banks recorded diverging performances in FY2025 as growth normalised and risks were repriced across major markets, according to GlobalData. The firm said the sector did not follow a single banking cycle. Russian lenders benefited from...
Institutional investors are becoming more cautious about loose underwriting standards and concentration risks emerging in some parts of the global private credit market. Senior executives from several institutions voiced their concerns during a panel discussion at Asia Asset Management’s 14th...
Nvidia sets new record surpassing $5T threshold, while Alphabet sees strongest dollar-based increase with $1.065T since end of February. The total market value of the world’s top 10 most valuable firms surged 16.69% or by $4.183 trillion, reaching $29.24 trillion...
IGM Financial Inc. announced Q1 net earnings of $283.8 million, a 21.4% year-over-year increase. Earnings per share were $1.20, up 22.4% year over year in the quarter. Assets under management and advisement were $314 billion in Q1 — up 14.2% year...
Spanish bank BBVA announced a significant increase in its sustainable finance activity in the first quarter of 2026, channeling €36 billion into sustainable business in the quarter, up by 33% over the same period last year. The results indicate continued...
As private credit moves toward a $4 trillion valuation by 2030, the “black box” era of investing is effectively over. BlackRock’s integration of Aladdin technology with Preqin datasets marks a definitive pivot toward the standardisation of private markets, providing the...
The banks eye growth in onshore, ASEAN, China and Hong Kong wealth. Singapore’s big three banks are banking on wealth management to drive growth, with interest income and lending activity expected to decline in 2026. The three banks have adopted different...
The May edition of the Global Trade Update shows that while tariffs rose sharply in 2025, they have not been the main obstacle to trade over the past decades. The biggest costs now come from non-tariff measures such as...
Net interest income fell, but wealth-led gains and higher fees lifted total income. Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (OCBC) posted a net profit of $1.97b for the first quarter (Q1) ended 31 March, up 5% from $1.88b a year earlier. Net interest...
The GCC economies posted robust growth in the third quarter of 2025, driven by the non-oil sector as the region’s sustained push to diversify income sources gained further momentum. The nominal GDP of the GCC reached approximately $595.8 billion in...
