Southeast Asia’s platform players Grab, GoTo, and Sea Group streamline operations, with Sea Group emerging as a leader in profitability and growth

Evergrande's long-time auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), has been implicated for issuing unqualified audit reports despite the beleaguered property developer’s significant financial irregularities. This has led to intense scrutiny and potential regulatory and legal actions that could threaten its long-term survival, and reshape the audit landscape in China.

Bank boards globally lack enough technology experts to influence strategy decisions, though North American banks are better at integrating such experts into their boards

The global outage led by the CrowdStrike-Microsoft faulty software update underscores the emerging gaps in resilience, interdependence of systems, vendor concentration, and single points of failure in networks

Six major consortiums, led by industry giants from tech, retail, and finance, are competing to secure Thailand's first digital bank licences. As the country prepares for a significant shift in its financial landscape, the stakes have never been higher.

While asset growth of world’s 1000 largest banks remained stable, loan and deposit growth slowed

North America and Asia Pacific banks maintain overall balance sheet strength over those in other regions, with the Middle East showing some improvements. Profitability among all 1000 banks improved, driven by higher interest rates, while asset quality indicators stayed stable.

While leading financial institutions are rapidly integrating GenAI into operations to enhance efficiency, challenges in model reliability, data integrity, and compliance hinder implementation and scalability.

Transaction banks in Asia are rapidly advancing through innovation, adopting sustainable practices, and leveraging technology such as APIs and AI to streamline treasury and trade finance processes

Banks in Asia’s mature markets beat rising costs, deteriorating credit quality and higher interest rates, focusing on digital experiences, GenAI, green finance and fraud prevention

The Global RMB Internationalisation Survey 2024 reveals that usage in cross-border trade has surged, accounting for over half of China’s cross-border payments. The results show high engagement from financial institutions and companies in RMB-based transactions, with notable growth in cross-border cash management, trade financing and investments.