The Asian Banker

16/09/2026

How is Deutsche Bank adapting institutional cash and trade to Asia Pacific’s changing flows?
Read the full article: https://www.theasianbanker.com/updates-and-articles/how-is-deutsche-bank-adapting-institutional-cash-and-trade-to-asia-pacific-s-changing-flows

Asia Pacific’s financial flows are being reshaped by real-time payments, digitalisation, fintech integration and supply-chain diversification. For banks and corporate treasurers, this is increasing the need to connect payments, liquidity, FX, trade and risk across increasingly complex markets.

Key highlights:
🔹Sebastien Avot, Managing Director, Regional Head Institutional Cash & Trade, APAC at Deutsche Bank, highlights three structural forces reshaping the region: real-time payments, rapid digitalisation and fintech integration, and changing trade corridors.
🔹Real-time payment networks such as India’s UPI and Singapore’s PayNow, alongside initiatives such as Project Nexus, are raising expectations for faster and more connected payment infrastructure.
🔹Supply-chain diversification is creating new trade corridors, increasing demand for payment certainty, flexible working capital, centralised cash pooling and more sophisticated FX and hedging strategies.
🔹Deutsche Bank is combining its regional network, digital trade and FX platforms, local market expertise and balance-sheet capabilities to help clients navigate fragmented regulatory and financial environments.

The article highlights a broader shift in institutional cash and trade: competitive value increasingly comes from connecting cash, liquidity, FX, trade, data and risk across markets rather than managing them as separate capabilities.

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16/09/2026

How should FIs build and sustain digital trust when AI is transforming the threat landscape?

AI is changing banking faster than any technology since the internet. As systems become more autonomous, institutions must keep them secure, explainable and trustworthy. Digital trust is emerging as the operating discipline that enables banks to scale AI safely.

15/09/2026

The next banking divide will be institutional readiness, not technology

Banks are gaining access to increasingly powerful technologies, but the competitive gap is shifting towards how effectively they can adapt their governance, infrastructure, operating models and talent to use them.

11/09/2026

In banking, the most damaging threats are often the ones that look harmless, until they are not.

At Finance West Africa 2026, Echezona Agubata, Chief Technology Officer at Coronation Merchant Bank, will bring a technology leader’s perspective on how AI can give financial institutions greater foresight over emerging security risks.

As digital banking grows more sophisticated, defence can no longer depend only on reacting after suspicious activity appears. The competitive advantage will increasingly come from recognising patterns earlier, anticipating vulnerabilities and intervening before a threat becomes an incident.

It is a shift from building higher walls to building better intelligence and one that could redefine how banks protect both their systems and customer trust.

📅 Wednesday, 14 October 2026
📍 Eko Hotels & Suites, Lagos, Nigeria

Theme: Banking at Scale: Trust, Rails and Intelligence for Nigeria’s Next Financial Era

Register now: https://www.theasianbanker.com/finance-west-africa-2026/register-now

10/09/2026

Can Techcombank build a lighter core for its next phase of growth?

Techcombank is upgrading a core platform that has fallen seven releases behind as it expands across banking, securities and insurance, but the larger transformation will come after migration as it decides what should remain in the core and what can move into more flexible data, pricing and customer....

10/09/2026

10/09/2026

Where does Deutsche Bank see the next sources of growth in transaction banking?
Read the full article: https://www.theasianbanker.com/updates-and-articles/where-does-deutsche-bank-see-the-next-sources-of-growth-in-transaction-banking

As traditional transaction banking products become increasingly commoditised, Deutsche Bank sees new growth opportunities in data-driven services, embedded treasury, new payment rails, digital assets and working-capital solutions.

Key highlights:
🔹Tsvetanka Nankova, Global Head of Sales, Institutional Cash & Trade Finance at Deutsche Bank, highlights the shift from volume and balance-sheet-driven growth towards data and digital solutions.
🔹Transactional FX, embedded treasury and APIs could create new revenue opportunities as corporates seek smarter pricing, automated reconciliation, liquidity management and integrated cash management.
🔹Fintechs, marketplaces and digital-asset firms are becoming increasingly important sources of payment flows, while tokenised financial ecosystems could create new opportunities for trusted settlement infrastructure.
🔹Deutsche Bank sees transaction data as a potential source of decision intelligence, supporting cash-flow forecasting, liquidity optimisation, payment routing, fraud detection and ESG reporting.

The opportunity for transaction banks is therefore not simply to process more transactions, but to extract more value from the data, trust and connectivity surrounding them.

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10/09/2026

𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟖 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝.

The decisions shaping Asian finance no longer sit with banks alone. Payments companies, technology firms, infrastructure providers, investors and regulators are now part of the same conversation.

That is why The Asian Banker’s flagship Summit returns as:
𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟕
𝟐𝟔–𝟐𝟕 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟕 · 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐢, 𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐧𝐚𝐦

Three flagship conferences will run in parallel: Financial Technology 2030, The Payments Summit and Beyond Borders.

𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞: 800+ delegates · 200+ organisations · 25+ countries · two-thirds at VP level or above.

For organisations serving this market, partnership means more than visibility - a session you lead, a roundtable you chair, or a conference you help shape.

Explore 2027 sponsorship opportunities: https://www.theasianbanker.com/future-of-finance-summit-2027/become-sponsor

10/09/2026

How do financial institutions win the next wave of customers when access alone is no longer enough?

For Dr. Sunday Olaniyan, Head of E-Business at SunTrust Bank, the opportunity lies in what happens after access is created: whether customers can actually use financial services in ways that feel relevant, reliable and worth returning to.

At Finance West Africa 2026, he will bring this perspective to the discussion on Nigeria’s next 40 million customers, exploring how credit, agent networks and smarter partnerships can help turn digital reach into deeper everyday engagement.

The challenge is shifting from simply expanding access to building financial relationships that people actively trust and use.

📅 Wednesday, 14 October 2026
📍 Eko Hotels & Suites, Lagos, Nigeria

Theme: Banking at Scale: Trust, Rails and Intelligence for Nigeria’s Next Financial Era

Register now: https://www.theasianbanker.com/finance-west-africa-2026/register-now