Asian Banking & Finance

Ant Group and its international payments businesses were the most frequently mentioned organisations in an analysis of 1,000 articles about cross-border payments in Asia. https://lnkd.in/gn9Xu3WH

APAC banks risk losing clients without digital assets Banks across Asia-Pacific risk losing clients and strategic relevance if they delay building digital-asset capabilities, as investor demand and tokenised finance outpace traditional banking infrastructure. See full story here: https://bit.ly/3RjX9Wq AMINA Bank

DBS bets on AI to break advice bottleneck DBS Bank is using agentic artificial intelligence to attack one of wealth management’s biggest constraints: the time advisers spend preparing market views instead of speaking with clients. See full story here: https://bit.ly/44u0yFd

Banks and regulators across Southeast Asia are unlikely to adopt a financing tool that lets banks pass part of their loan risk to outside investors, although a market expert said it could prove useful during future economic shocks. https://lnkd.in/gc5Yxu9m

Digital wallets and account-to-account payments will overtake cash and credit card payments in Indonesia’s e-commerce market by 2030, as consumers primarily fund their wallets directly via bank accounts. https://lnkd.in/g2Sk-9sG

Of the three banks, DBS is expected to report flat net profit growth, whilst OCBC's net profit will rise 7% compared to the same quarter in 2025. However, their Q2 profits will be lower than the previous quarter’s, according to estimates by UOBKH analyst Jonathan Koh. https://lnkd.in/gB-u4sv2

Singapore’s three biggest banks are increasingly relying on wealth management to support income growth as falling interest margins pressure their traditional lending businesses. https://lnkd.in/gfC-Tzn8

Agentic AI can free up wealth advisors’ time for more client relationship building and raise the industry’s asset under management (AUM) capacity by up to $35t. https://lnkd.in/gFtu_uVX

APAC banks face higher energy prices and weak growth, but impact across markets will be mixed, said Fitch Ratings. https://lnkd.in/gFUEQPhT

Only 1 in 4 (25%) of financial institutions in Malaysia would make decisions based on outputs generated by artificial intelligence (AI), according to a joint study by the Asia Institution of Chartered Bankers (AICB), the research firm Ecosystm, and AICB's Chief Risk Officers' Forum. https://lnkd.in/gtVmrJct