APAC

De Sousa will focus on developing domains of merging tech for the bank.

Bielle will be responsible for the bank’s private credit sales team in APAC.

Xiong first joined Natixis CIB’s loan syndication team in 2017.

Asia ex-Japan and China lost $22m of funding in Q4.

Banks and financial institutions may now send their entries for the Wholesale Banking Awards, Retail Banking Awards, and Corporate and Investment Banking Awards.

Of the $2.5t funneled to energy firms, only $178b were for clean energy activities, the report said.

By Pat Patel, Executive Director, Elevandi.

Nambiar has worked across various roles in his 17-year career with Citi.

ISO 20022 is set to become the universal language of payments.

Science-based decarbonisation targets must be set to improve their energy sector portfolios.

Bank boards need to reassess their understanding of the impact that geopolitical risk can have on both their business and their clients, says Derek Leatherdale, Managing Director at GRI Strategies and Visiting Scholar at The London Institute of Banking & Finance.

The Philippines, Vietnam, and Indonesia are more vulnerable to the risks of credit products, Euromonitor International reported.

BNPL brand Afterpay served 20 million customers in Australia alone.

Southeast Asia’s financial services institutions (FSIs) are bracing themselves for another year of volatile geopolitical and economic conditions, with record-high inflation and rising interest rates. But those willing to push the digital envelope will find new pockets of growth to help them remain resilient and become future-ready. For this to happen, FSIs need their executives to embrace a digital-era transformative mindset – one that builds skills, flexibility and agility, preparing their organizations to pivot at any moment.

We’re taking the time off and will be back on 9 January 2023.

Changing customer attitudes and lowered barriers to entry has transformed how banks’ fortunes are made.