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Latest issues
Bankable Insights – Issue 3, 2026
This issue of Transaction Banking Bankable Insights explores the forces reshaping financial services. As payments, trade, digital assets and AI evolve, connectivity, resilience and trust are becoming competitive advantages. Through industry perspectives, client stories we examine how Financial Institutions can navigate change and bridge traditional and digital ecosystems.
The Custodian Edition – June 2026
Discover how tokenisation, digital assets, T+1 settlement and AI are transforming market infrastructure, reshaping custody, and redefining operating models, risk and governance for institutional investors and asset servicers.
Past editions
Transaction Banking Bankable Insights
Issue 2, 2026
The latest issue of Transaction Banking Bankable Insights shares practical perspectives for navigating uncertainty and change.
Building adaptability into liquidity, payments, value-chains and decision-making is emerging as a source of resilience and strategic advantage. And, through practical insights and client stories, we connect strategy with execution.
Transaction Banking Bankable Insights
Issue 1, 2026
From exploring how cybersecurity is evolving, and whether fiat is still the backbone of global finance, to how powering resilience looks like in global trade, and much more, we dive into the forces driving change this year.
Transaction Banking Bankable Insights
Issue 3, 2025
This edition of Transaction Banking Bankable Insights examines why interoperability of ecosystems will define the next phase of banking, and how banks, fintechs and legislators can work together to deliver consistency, resilience, and reach.
September 2025
Breaking down emerging market barriers, byte by byte
Articles:
- Where do we trade tomorrow?
- A roadmap to sustaining momentum in your transformation journey
- Reforms, resilience and growth in India
- Saudi capital market journey: Our strategic alignment; global readiness and trusted execution
- The custodians of tomorrow – Technology as an enabler (podcast)
- Navigating change – Custody services in the Middle East (podcast)
- Asia in focus roundtable: Thriving in an evolving and competitive landscape
March 2025
Breaking down emerging market barriers, byte by byte
Articles:
- Harmonisation and integration: Keys to empowering emerging capital markets
- On the rise: Unlocking India’s opportunities
- The calculus for shortening the settlement cycle in Middle East capital markets
- The future of funds – Opportunities for fund managers in 2025
- Enhancing operational efficiencies in asset servicing
June 2024
Transforming Emerging Markets through digitisation and collaboration
Articles:
- Custodians refine their data strategies
- Gaining a foothold in India
- Three reasons why digital assets deserve an independent custodian
- Commit, collaborate, consolidate: The way forward for Africa’s financial markets
- Tech-powered custodian services to support fast-growing UAE’s fund industry
2024
Tomorrow’s Banking
Watch what our leaders have to say about what these changes mean for financial institutions and their clients, the significance of Sibos being held in China, and why connecting people, commerce, markets and information is more important than ever.
2024
Connecting the future of finance
Contents:
- Our Sibos 2024 at a glance
- Why Sibos in China
- Balancing risk and reward: Deploying AI in the fight against financial crime
- Real-world asset tokenisation: How FIs can propel this USD30 trillion opportunity
- Custodians refine their data strategies
- Money moves without borders. Why can’t our payments data do the same?
Listen to our podcasts
Explore some of our latest podcast episodes, where we cover key topics and challenges facing the global economy.
Global Outlook H2-2026 – A test of resilience
We unpack the forces set to shape the second half – from inflation and the US dollar to geopolitics, the AI push and energy markets – and their impact on key economies.
Is policy turning more interventionist?
Eric Robertsen, and Madhur Jha examine how the latest developments in Fed, US Treasury and tariff policy are impacting global inflation, growth and asset prices – and where opportunities may emerge as the policy landscape evolves.
Are we closer to tokenisation in trade?
Digital assets present challenges today but opportunities tomorrow. In the final Future of Trade podcast with TFG, Kevin Chang and Emily Chan explore tokenisation’s potential and why corporates should start building capability and readiness now.
ISO 20022 Made Simple – Episode 7
Hear from Inchcape and Standard Chartered on how ISO 20022 is helping corporates unlock richer data, improve automation, streamline reconciliation, and gain greater visibility over cash flows, turning compliance into a strategic opportunity.
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A FI CEO on the real risk challenge
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Supporting Thailand’s second Sustainability-Linked Bond
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How AI is helping rewire sustainable trade finance in ASEAN
Smarter data from AI could make ASEAN’s sustainable supply chains easier to finance.
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Explore the ideas and market perspectives shared by treasury leaders as they navigate change, unlock opportuniti…
The new dependencies behind AI
AI is reshaping organisations and threat actors alike. Success depends on understanding both its value and new d…