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Banking and Payments Asia 2010
BPA 16 June 2010
Taiwan accounting standards driving foreign life insurers out
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BPA 15 May 2010
BPA 14 April 2010
BPA 13 March 2010
OCBC’s giant leap for Singapore
Social media a greenfield for Asian banks
The top 10 banking trends for 2010
Brave new world for card marketers
News digest
Segmenting sports pros and entertainers
Next 18 months in India key for Stan Chart
EFG sets up rep office in Shanghai
HSBC advances on the mid-market
News digest
CS AuM ‘will be bigger than UBS in Q4’
Singapore life industry recovery still on track
600 client leads from HSBC marketing campaign
‘Disappointment’ at tech investment results
Clients agree to disagree on transparency
Banesto goes for goal
Banamex targets youth with Blink
Obama sets out to milk insurers
Providing a rich proposition
News digest
Citi pushes prepaid in Australia
BPA 12 February 2010
Banks get into gear
SBI speeds up expansion plans
New CEO unveils his plans
Too much regulation worries Asian banks
News Digest
XacBank’s direct strategy pays dividends
Philanthropy moves in-house
BoC steps up overseas focus
Foreign banks in Asia face renewed domestic challenge
Growth of China’s life market slackens in 2009
New Prudential CEO rejigs strategy in Asia
Visa and MasterCard ride out recession
ICICI, First Data agree joint venture
Wincor Nixdorf to expand into mobile banking
Fintech DealWatch
Private insurers lose ground to LIC
Allianz’s big Indian success story
US Bank launches START savings scheme
Hong Kong and China plan cross-border e-money scheme
BPA 12 PDF
BPA 11 January 2010
China’s Alipay on track to top PayPal
Australian payment fraud rising
VP Bank’s plans for Asian growth
News digest
Ping An and Discovery Health team up
Thailand’s Master Plan for 2014
M&A: All to play for in regional power play
Visa expands Money Transfer service
Cartes looks towards a positive future
China’s changing card dynamics
Credit Suisse becomes cautious on H2
Private banks look at active advisory pricing
Singapore's life industry recovers
Turkey’s Garanti launches iPhone app
Private bankers reassess priorities
Rabobank dumps climate card in focus shift
Loyalty programme boosts Canada’s RBC
Infosys to power SocGen in China
Insurers to deal with global ageing challenge
Discussion: Retail banking strategies for 2010
Europe's state-supported private banks head for the exit
BPA 11 PDF
Banking and Payments Asia 2009
BPA 10 December 2009
India’s RBI pushes mobile banking
ANZ launches global brand for A-P
Changing the way people bank
Digest
‘Sales increased by 120%’
India’s payments revolution continues
State Bank of India’s new online rewards
Citi ups its loyalty play in Asia-Pacific
Japan takes the lead in technology
Interest grows in booming Indonesia
Strong results in a market of opportunity
Sarasin fee model starts to kick in
Norway sharpens its cutting edge
The rise of personal teller machines
A security solution not to be ignored
Interchange war heats up
The prepaid card agenda
Exclusive prepaid research from VRL and TNS
Live and Direct
After the crisis
Setting the pace for the integrated model
BPA 10 PDF
BPA 9 November 2009
China crisis for credit cards?
Sumitomo Trust, Chuo Mitsui to merge
Pushing Premier
News digest
The price war continues
NETS FlashPay revs up competition in Singapore
GSMA starts development grant ball rolling
Robust earnings drive India’s ascent
Mixed results for Australian card reforms
Card issuers learn to hit the target
An industry in transition
AuM seen growing in double digits
M&A dominoes start to tumble
Korean reforms hit by tough markets
New branches for SC
IT spending to return to normal in 2012
USAA blazes remote deposits trail
Barclays breaks ‘apps’ record
The success of Barclaycard’s ‘Waterslide’ contactless payment promotional campaign, already a major hit courtesy of a po
The state of the European marketplace
‘SEPA offers significant benefits for bank customers’
EU ends ING’s global ambitions
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BPA 8 October 2009
A-P banks take on the foreigners
DoCoMo’s ‘mobile’ credit card hits 10m
LIC widens its lead on private Indian insurers
ANZ targets teens with MySpace prepaid card
Australian Senate backs ‘four pillars’ rule
Recession takes its toll on Hong Kong insurers
News digest
Domestic players to the fore in Asia
‘The best days of foreign banks are gone’
Vietnam embraces the electronic era
Asia’s payment innovations singled out
Indian business models: a balancing act
Private-investment banking a hit in India
Major insurance law revamp looms
Ping An gets eWise to OFM
China’s ICBC pushes into Thailand
ANZ’s Thursby plans for Asia
A very different Citi takes shape
The building of a breakaway brand
Giving credit to Islamic payment cards
Role reversal
On the ball
The global assault on fees begins
BPA 8 PDF
BPA 7 September 2009
ICBC unveils 3G m-banking in China
A price war breaks out in Australia
Here for the long term
Profit up 10%... though retail banking down significantly
Are you in or out?
Credit where it’s due for one-bank model
Shifting the balance
CITICfirst racks up 13,700 clients and $4.7 billion in assets in three years
Indonesia gets ‘first class’ branches
BCA’s half-year profits up by 35%
News Digest
Birth of a new processing giant
Raiffeisen upgrades in Russia
UK banks pushing fee-based accounts
13 million reasons to say Thank You
M-Pesa transfers up 718% year-on-year
Merging cards and mobiles into one
Visa and MasterCard ride the recession
Deloitte sees big changes ahead
Where next for mobile payments?
Pace of change growing in A-P
BPA 7 PDF
BPA 6 August 2009
DBS pays the price for Lehman fall
Asian private banks optimistic for H209
News digest
‘A great place to be’
StanChart ups mass affluent ante
E-money leads the pack in Malaysia
Innovations to drive remittance growth
RBA interchange study: the conclusions
A window into the future
‘The tipping point may have arrived’
Giving banks the edge in fighting fraud
M-banking becomes cool
Alibaba, BOC in online payments push
The big US card issuers take a battering
Best practice in the worst of times
Wells Fargo tops US web league
Egg takes on the World
A year for the boutiques
Getting clever with cards
Eng: compliance key to Asia push
BPA 6 PDF
BPA 5 July 2009
Shinsei and Aozora fall together
Asia’s low branch density problem
News digest
Boutiques still have a lot to prove
HSBC looks for big growth in China
Vietnam’s turn in the spotlight
The big allure of China’s bank channel
‘A revolution is taking place at Westpac’
China’s ever-expanding rich list
Fitch takes a dim view on Japan
AIG readies Asian unit for an IPO
India’s first insurance IPO mooted
More senior hires for NAB
MasterCard remains unruffled
Innovation in real-time rewards
Measuring service like fiscal performance
The top ‘superbanks’ get bigger
Women-only banking
‘We’re taking a more nuanced approach’
State of the world’s wealth
BPA 5 PDF
BPA 4 June 2009
State Bank of India steams ahead
StanChart leans into the wind
News digest
Making sense of Japan
US stress test leads BofA China sale
CUP and Global Payments go global
Australian life market takes a big hit
‘Delinquencies are down’
HNW women gain currency in Asia
Mixed results from China’s insurers
Singapore insurers take a hammering in first quarter
Yes Bank commits to its hi-tech model
Profits up for Yes Bank in year to 31 March… but retail banking loss widens
Booking centres in the spotlight
HSBC’s big plans for Vietnam
China stays hot for Malaysia’s CIMB
Banks preparing for tax amnesties
A question of retention
Debit overtakes credit in sour US market
A world of payment innovation
On the march towards a cashless future?
‘2008 was a fantastic year for us in retail’
A smarter piggy bank from ANZ
BPA 4 PDF
BPA 3 May 2009
Changing fortunes for India’s banks
TSYS makes its mark in India
News digest
‘Korea could be our single biggest market’
EMV: the story so far
The blacklist holdouts fold
Fidelity, Metavante form a tech giant
RBS turns to Gemalto for EMV credit card switch
Agreement sees China UnionPay and Global Payments go global
Bankinter tops global cross-selling league
‘2008 was a fantastic year’
Islamic banking services growing in importance
The battle of the business models
Banking for a new age
Australian payments reform only just begun, says RBA
Alipay poised to overtake PayPal as provider of choice
Fintech dealwatch: asia-pacific
Compliance tops to-do lists
Gold, silver and bronze for China’s banks
BofA asks customers to Add It Up
Banks get all twittery
BPA 3 PDF
BPA 2 April 2009
Singapore, HK feel heat from EU
A-P drives StanChart to 19% FY08 profit rise
News Digest
Singapore stung by rising NPLs
An ambitious plan for a troubled Japan
The right call
Product rethink as Singapore new business nosedives
American Council calls on Japan to play fair
M-Pesa: Kenya’s revolutionary new bank
HSBC prepares for a tougher 2009
Putting the retailer in retail banking
Instant card issuance an instant hit
Top 10 lose $2trn in AuM in 2008
Paymo takes micro-payments global
Banks get picky on technology
Nomura, Avaloq tie-up
Growth remains on the cards
Aiming for a top three spot in China
BPA 2 PDF
BPA1 March 2009
A return to suitcase banking?
Chinese card growth beginning to slow
Satyam scandal creates chaos for Indian technology sector
News digest
‘The performance really stands out’
Watching and waiting
BoC in aggressive domestic expansion
Australian ATM reform in place for major shake-up of the market
Credit Suisse goes bespoke in Japan
Resona combines trust and retail operations
Growing Indian wealth boosts card usage
State of the year
New leaders emerge from the chaos
ING Direct: more customers, less profit
Absa smashes 1m m-banking barrier
RBS goes back to basics
First adviser layoffs hit Asia
Time to think outside the box
Australia: growing old gracefully
Fintech dealwatch: asia-pacific
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