Nearly all APAC firms plan to invest in APIs and embedded payments throughout 2026. Asia-Pacific small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are more interested in investing in embedded finance compared to their regional counterparts, as embedded payments and application programming interfaces...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) held interest rates in its first policy decision since the Middle East crisis erupted, as it grapples with a sharply weaker rupee while trying to support economic growth. The central bank’s six-member Monetary Policy...
Only ECM fees rose during the quarter. Investment banking fees generated in the Asia Pacific region excluding Japan fell 5% year-on-year (YoY) to $5.3b in Q1 2026 on lower syndicated lending and M&A advisory fees, according to data from the...
Citi emerges tops with a 12.7% wallet share. Investment banking fees in Singapore reached about US$187.8 million in the first quarter of 2026, marking an 8.2 per cent year-on-year (yoy) increase and the strongest opening quarter for the industry in...
The Dutch Senate adopted legislation amending Book 8 of the Civil Code to grant legal recognition to electronic bills of lading (eBLs) in maritime freight transport. Bills of lading (BLs) serve simultaneously as a receipt for goods, a contract of...
“Had it not been for this shock, we would have been upgrading global growth,” Georgieva says. The Iran war is darkening the outlook for the world economy — whether or not a fragile ceasefire holds, the head of the International...
Singapore's international investment position showed a mix of net asset and net liability positions across categories. Portfolio investment recorded a net asset position of $2.11t in Singapore’s international investment position (IIP) by category as at end of fourth quarter (Q4)...
Swift has begun building the first iteration of its blockchain-based shared ledger, enabling interoperability between banks’ tokenised deposits to facilitate 24/7 cross-border payments. Since announcing plans for the ledger in September 2025, a group involving a global cohort of banks has been shaping the ledger's design. Now, having completed this...
After years of restructuring, 2025 may signal a turning point, report says. After years of restructuring and retrenching, the capital markets businesses of Europe’s big banks finally look to be on the road to recovery, Morningstar DBRS Inc. says. In fiscal...
The potential risk comes at a time when the data centre build-up is already facing a water problem. The energy shock sparked by the Iran war is increasingly coming up in conversations about data centre deals for Asian bankers, who...
