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Retail Finance Weekly: Visa gains preliminary approval for China card clearing, India delays merchant fees and US banks report contrasting consumer results.
TAB Middle East Weekly Brief: QNB’s $2.5 billion loan draws Asian backing, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank raises equity and deposit competition intensifies.
Financial Technology Weekly: Citi links 30% lower vendor spending to AI-assisted insourcing as the HKMA and FSB address accountability for AI agents.
Standard Chartered sees agentic payments advancing in stages: first using richer data to provide visibility, then recommending actions and eventually allowing authorised agents to execute them. Sunday
TAB China Weekly Brief: China’s exports surged in September while household loans contracted, Visa won clearing approval and banks received liquidity.
Talos’s Samar Sen argues that banks moving beyond tokenisation pilots need shared custody, settlement and treasury infrastructure as conventional and tokenised processes will coexist.
First Bank of Nigeria was named Best SME Bank in Africa, Best SME Bank in Nigeria and Best Retail Bank in Nigeria, recognising its SME financing capabilities, extensive distribution network and invest
TAB Africa Weekly Brief: Standard Bank backs OPay, Airtel Money lists in London, Ecobank expands renminbi links and Zambia nears IMF programme.
ACI Worldwide’s Scotty Perkins and Marc Trepanier say the case for payments modernisation is shifting from infrastructure savings towards faster innovation, new services and stronger controls.
Financial Markets Weekly: BNY uses tokenised Treasuries as repo collateral, Standard Chartered launches RLUSD custody and regulators clarify market infrastructure loss safeguards.
GenLayer Labs co-founder and CEO Albert Castellana explains how intelligent contracts could assess disputed obligations between AI agents, while the Internet Court initiative seeks to connect contract
Cardano Foundation CFO Stephen Wood explains how on-chain reporting enables independent verification and how programmable tokens enforce transfer restrictions.
Sabih Behzad sees stablecoins, tokenised deposits and central bank money serving different purposes rather than competing for one winning model. For Deutsche Bank, scaling them means connecting new fo