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No country faces a greater challenge in turning cashless than Myanmar. But KBZ’s digital wallet is making progress, under the supervision of a 29-year-old member of the family dynasty.

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.

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.

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 finance sector has woken up to its impact and dependence on nature. So, it needs to prioritize the development of investable projects.

Eleonore Bedel explains how helping BNP Paribas Wealth Management clients to make the right investment decisions can create a greater impact for all

China Merchants Bank is the primary bank in its market. Its success has been down to a long-term vision as much as a long-term perspective on its assets under management.

Digitization and data have been the mantra of trade finance experts and consultants for several years now. In this article, we address the central issues currently facing the data universe and how the trend can best be accelerated.

Covid-19 has caused banks, fintechs and payment providers to accelerate their digitalization strategies. Anders la Cour, co-founder and chief executive officer of Banking Circle, discusses the vital role of digital financial infrastructure in rebuilding banking to face an uncertain and unpredictable future.

What can we learn from the China Investment Corporation’s latest numbers, which cover the year prior to Covid?