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Mortgage portfolios will remain intact amidst adequate capital buffers.

The principal-preserved model may not survive under new rules.

Thanks to sustained demand for home and corporate loans.

Key executives from Malaysia's major banks graced the event.

A probe has opened a can of worms ranging from bribes to extracting fees from dead customers.

Banking customers may switch now that they can compare their bank's performance with others.

Maybank's Alvin Lee also shares how the bank currently innovates their branches.

Applicants need to furnish a “Fast Track” document to be recognised as fintech.

A tightening lending environment may cause property sales to plummet.

Additionally, the two countries also revised a partnership on banking supervision.

Networks of ecosystem partners and access to more data lower costs of customer acquisition.

Almost 40% believe that open banking can provide them with better customer service.

And Nigeria’s central bank has injected $210m into the interbank foreign exchange market. From Reuters: Swiss bank UBS disappointed investors on Monday with first-quarter results that revealed strong earnings at its investment bank, while its flagship wealth management business missed forecasts. UBS’s wealth business, which was merged into one global division this year, netted 19 billion francs in new money but fell short of expectations with pre-tax operating income of 1.13 billion francs. Wealth management’s disappointing performance, plus its higher costs and UBS’s cautious outlook, put pressure on the bank’s shares which fell as much as 4 percent. 

Two Asian countries snagged the top two spots.

The Jan Dhan Scheme has brought an additional 310 million people into the banking system.

InstaPay enables transactions of up to PHP50,000 per day.