China Merchants Bank and CMB Wing Lung Bank introduced an end-to-end digital account-opening service for the southbound scheme in February 2025, allowing eligible mainland investors to complete ...

CICC supported offshore RMB bond issuances by the governments of Guangdong and Shenzhen, as well as green and infrastructure bonds from the Hong Kong government. It also helped Guangzhou Water ...

The bank was prominent in several of the region’s largest sustainable finance transactions. Bank of China (Hong Kong) helped arrange MTR Corporation’s HKD30 billion seven-year green syndicated loan, ...

In 2025, NCB strengthened its SME proposition in the GBA, enhancing its Go Global framework as SMEs confronted tariff uncertainty and looked for new markets. This resulted in a 42% year-on-year growth ...

HSBC’s regional scale and international connectivity set it apart in 2025. It combined a leading mainland China franchise with the largest foreign-bank branch network in Guangdong, where two-thirds ...

For LY iTech, DBS combined RMB letters of credit issued in Hong Kong with discounting in mainland China, helping the technology manufacturer benefit from lower RMB financing costs while retaining ...

Across much of the Caribbean, small businesses still struggle to secure finance. In the Dominican Republic, Banreservas has ...

European banking’s efficiency leaders are almost all operating in faster-growing markets or they are digital banks. Combining ...

One of the paradoxes of banking’s enthusiasm for generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) is that the technology has excelled more in words than numbers. The ChatGPT model that triggered all the ...

HSBC, which aspires to be a top-three player in FX, is now taking steps to update its e-commerce offering. To that end, it has appointed Richard Anthony to the new role of head of e-risk of FX and ...

Awards for Excellence national winners 2026: Kosovo’s best retail bank – ProCredit Bank Awards for Excellence ...

Citi’s trajectory over the past 15 years has epitomised the much wider changes in the global banking industry. Until the sub-prime crisis, the group had consumer franchises spread across 50 countries ...