“Higher-income customers were unconstrained, but ‘customers in the middle to lower end of the financial spectrum are tightening the belt.’”

“AI is the hyperscalers’ ‘Manhattan Project. CEOs see the risk of not winning as just as much—if not more—of a risk as overspending.”

As Trump throws up trade barriers, intra-Asian trade is becoming freer.

The biggest challenge in preparing for the new data standard? Coming to grips with banks’ widely differing approaches.