APAC

Current mechanisms leave out SMEs and MSMEs from accessing much-needed credit.

Visa Japan’s country head Stephen Karpin is the new regional president, whilst Chris Clark ascends as chairman.

Rising income will push the affluent and mass affluent segments’ wealth pool to $4.7t.

The Lion City ranked ninth and named amongst the world’s fintech capitals.

Akamai Technologies and Asian Banking and Finance will discuss trends and threats in their upcoming webinar.

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.