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Most open-banking solutions introduced to date have been focused on retail users, but the pandemic is driving demand from corporates for new application initiatives.

In retreating from onshore private banking in south Asia’s largest market, Citi is following the money, as it seeks to serve the rising number of Indian families fast transferring personal wealth overseas to bigger and more stable markets they know and trust.

We asked corporate treasury officials across Asia to rank their banking partners for quality of execution capabilities and quality of relationship in six key business areas: capital markets, cash management, credit, rates, foreign exchange and trade finance, creating a total of 12 categories in each market covered. The rankings published here are overall results based on the banks with the highest number of first-placed rankings in each market; in the event of a tie, the number of second-placed rankings determines the winner, then the number of third-place rankings, and so on. We received more than 1,500 votes from Asian corporates during the survey period.

The region’s affluent classes are well served by traditional banks. But fintech firms hope to gain a foothold in financial services through customers that have been left behind.

Gone are the days when banks could coast along on processing letters of credit and servicing clients’ occasional foreign exchange transactions. To meet the increasingly complex needs of their corporate clients, the top Asian banks have had to rethink their service models.

Timberland investor New Forests is encouraging Singapore to become Asia’s hub for impact investing, while solving the region’s annual pollution problem.

Investors ate up China’s dim sum bonds and snacked on India’s masala notes. Could a taste of Indonesia’s nasi goreng bonds be the next thing to satiate emerging market investors’ appetite?

The bank’s new CEO signals openness to M&A, while flagging investment fees as a key profit driver this year.

Regulators have set high conduct standards for banks in assisting particularly smaller corporate customers with the impact of the transition away from Libor.

Digital transformation has been a core pillar of Commercial Bank of Qatar’s five-year strategic plan, initiated in 2016. In an interview, Joseph Abraham, group CEO, talks about what evolving into a more digital enterprise means for the bank and its retail and wholesale banking businesses.

Australian lender serves up word soup along with first-half results.

Digital transformation is beginning to have a profound impact on the advice, services and products that banks such as Ahli United Bank provide to their corporate banking customers.