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China boasts perhaps one of the most interesting (and certainly one of the largest) economies on the planet. The world’s largest exporter has maintained steady growth over the last 25 years, and whilst that economy might have slowed recently (due in no small part to an escalating trade war with the ...

Yes, it’s actually happening. Facebook is throwing its sizeable 2.4 billion user-a-month hat into the cryptocurrency ring.  The news was once little more than a rumour, lent weight by Mark Zuckerberg’s meeting with Bank of England governor Mark Carney back in April. However, it’s now been confirmed ...

With digital transformation constantly and consistently changing the way banks operate, the need for speed has never been greater. If you’re not fast enough, by the time you've installed a new system you're already behind again. That’s where EXUS has the definitive edge. Our solutions can be deploy ...

Vietnamese society is changing shape rapidly. Generation Z now make up 25% of the country’s 15 million-strong workforce, and the figure is growing. But what does this mean for the country and its economy? This group has had access to technology and the internet since their early years - along with ...

For many years, the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council have followed an oil-based development model. The black stuff has been, as LSE economist Sophie Olver-Ellis put it, the "elixir of life" for many of the region's economies.

This has been particularly true for Kuwait. Oil has transformed this small nation on the Arabian Peninsula from a prosperous trading port into an oil-exporting powerhouse with a highly developed, albeit non-diverse, economy.

Macro-level challenges are causing micro-level problems as telecoms feel the effects of market trends—especially in Europe. European telecoms are making moves to consolidate, causing: Forced cuts to service charges by European regulators, dropping revenue streams 8.6%. Larger companies with new ...

Amid the cut-and-thrust of international banking, it’s hard to set a truly global benchmark for the world’s biggest banks. With the sheer diversity of local markets, it’s not always possible to compare apples with apples. By one’s region’s standards - say, the well established Western Europe bankin ...

Colin Dinn, the CTO of Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) - Thailand’s largest retail bank - joined the organisation in April 2016 with a big remit: to build new technological capacity and help create “Thailand’s most admired bank”. Achieving this required a ruthless audit of all of SCB’s existing systems, and for Dinn, a key target was the bank’s existing collections software.

Southeast Asia is a diverse and culturally rich collection of nations, each at differing stages of economic development and each posing unique complexities in the banking sector. The region also holds enormous economic potential: Southeast Asia is one of the most rapidly developing regions in the wo ...

In the last few years, a wave of change has swept through the Middle East’s traditionally conservative banking sector. Bumper oil revenues had kept the region’s economies afloat, and substantial public investment by governments brimful with cash had transformed nations like Saudi Arabia and the UAE ...