The Asian Crisis - A catalyst for change

Endeavor's global venture capital arm's Fund V has deployed $55.7m across 30 companies. A hub in Singapore is supporting its growing Asia pipeline of startups.

The dual-tranche issuance is the first Singapore dollar bond from a Vietnamese issuer and will support lending to local MSMEs.

As the bank eyes a record fundraising year, acting CFO Domenico Nardelli talks infrastructure, bonds, hard to price risks, and market opportunities.

Banks and payment giants at the Singapore FinTech Festival warned about deepfakes, cyberattacks, and AI-driven fraud even as they push aggressively into agentic AI and design their firms around AI-native operating models. With risks rising, leaders said 2026 will force a balance between ambition and safeguards.

Chang, who joined ANZ in 2012, will relocate from Singapore to Shanghai, and will start the role on November 18.

Banks need access to better analytics to improve knowledge of their loan portfolios and to formulate their risk appetite, according to experts from Aon and XDI.