With real-time payments on the rise, a FICO survey suggests that customers in Southeast Asia place almost the same emphasis on fraud protection as convenience when opening up bank accounts.
Niall Hannigan, previously at Abu Dhabi clean energy firm Masdar, is joining PDG as it readies a campus in Johor to cater for the region's fast growing AI and cloud companies.
The Bank of Thailand opened its application process to set-up digital only banks in late March, and is expecting licensed parties to commence operation within a year of qualification.
Amit Dhawan will keep the role as head of emerging corporates for Asia in a dual remit, effective April 22, and will replace Hsiu-Yi Lin, who has left the bank.
The bank's regional co-heads Aditya Gahlaut and Ian Tandy shared their thoughts on inflationary pressures, upcoming elections and the sectors and platforms that provide businesses in Asia performance potential.
DBS Hong Kong helped initiate the five year loan and one of the aims is to reduce 9% of greenhouse gas emission intensity from the bus company by 2025, and 27% by 2028.