Banking & Finance

On 6 May 2026, FATF said Singapore's results needed to be sharper. Its answer: widen COSMIC, the cross-bank data-sharing platform....

On 22 June 2026, the Wolfsberg Group's twelve member banks published updated risk-based approach guidance. For compliance leaders still running...

UNODC's latest threat assessment argues that Southeast Asia's organised crime economy now functions less as a collection of national ecosystems...

In 2019, the global trading system imposed 55 discriminatory trade policies on companies operating inside it. By 2024, that figure...

Bank Negara Malaysia, the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Bank of Thailand each published a climate or AI risk...

ASEAN's central banks are absorbing energy, food and climate shocks arriving simultaneously……and the joint statement their finance ministers issued on...

Southeast Asia's digital economy is projected to reach $560 billion by 2030 and fintech innovation is finally bridging the financing...

Malaysia's banks deploy AI at breakneck speed for risk management, but could struggle to explain algorithm-driven loan rejections. This explainability...