Hagia Sophia: The empire inside our minds

The AI bank is not a digital bank

China’s ceramics industry and a civilisation that creates value

Building networks not structures for a new multilateralism

How the Islamic world lost its scientific soul

The great migration - Serengeti is a gift from Tanzania to the world

Why are there Chinese everywhere?

Hangzhou’s Six Little Dragons and recreating Silicon Valley in Shanghai

The World Trade Organization (WTO) and the U.S. in Trump’s tariff world

Trust the data, take the leap!

Piyush Gupta: First post-retirement fireside chat with DBS former CEO

Why African Startups Struggle with Exits – And What Comes Next

AI in the Year of the Snake - a dinner speech

DeepSeek’s “Open Source” breakthrough from inside China

Conversations in Saint Lucia

The future of financial centers

The geopolitics of SIBOS in Beijing

Burnt Banksy - from burning NFT art to refining digital assets

Geopolitics in Sun Yat Sen’s China

Taylor Swift’s digital economics in finance

A postcard from China’s Ming dynasty

Tik Tok’s real problems

Ron Shevlin on US banking: “Unprecedented regulatory headwinds make outlook difficult”

Shaping Shanghai as a global offshore financial hub

My takes on China’s “Two Sessions” meetings this year…

US fintech status report February 2024

Basic assumptions on how China will navigate its economy

The relationship between private enterprise and the state in building infrastructure

Creating a successful global financial centre

Digital Innovation Conference 2023: BIBD's crucial role in shaping Brunei's digital infrastructure

My one prediction for 2024: “The Rise of the Digital Deposit Account”

Seamless Europe 2023: If the product doesn't change, nothing changes

StanChart CEO Bill Winters' legacy: Resilient bank, strong finances, innovative team

A full briefing and dialogue on 'The Great Transition - the personalization of finance is here”

Blitzscaling the hundreds of AI start-ups

Zhang Jun: “The biggest challenge in any economy today is the change in the labour market”

Egyptian dreams on the Nile

Generational Gripes: Profiting from Our Differences

Howard Davies: “The regulatory networks are not as strong as they used to be”

Bitkub’s Topp Srupsrisopa: “We want to be the most trusted crypto platform in Thailand”

We are coming to the end of platform era

BCA’s Jahja Setiaatmadja: “Digital and relationship are our two strengths”

Banking’s Kodak Moment

A dinner speech on virtual reality in real life

Samarkand and Bukhara, the Emir Timur and Ulugh Beg

With Peter Renton: Whatever happened to Peer-to-Peer Lending?

Signature Bank shutdown explained

My Sarwa Chat with Mark Chahwan

When are you a banker and when are you a venture capitalist?

The full briefing and dialogue on my book

Urging industry leaders to anticipate disruptions

Anyone here from Silicon Valley Bank?

Stojanovic of True Global Ventures: “Centralisation is dead”

Diginex’s Byworth: “DeFi is very fringe at the moment, certainly not open to many institutions”

A more inclusive micro finance business in Laos

Raymond Sia on how @CanadiaBankPLC1 is coping with competition in Cambodia

US-China Craig Allen: “We want a level playing field for China’s private sector and foreign players”

Technology in Fund Management in China

Revisiting Joe Studwell, author of "How Asia Works" as he prepares for his thesis on Africa

The Hub with Wang Guan: New Year plans and financial forecast for 2023