Banks in Singapore are working with the city-state’s industry body to monitor emerging threats posed by frontier artificial intelligence models, the director of the Association of Banks in Singapore said on Monday.

India’s Wipro announced a record share buyback of up to 150 billion rupees ($1.61 billion) on Thursday after reporting a slight quarterly revenue miss, as clients held back technology spending in the energy and banking sectors, while business from key customer Estée Lauder also slowed.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that Washington is cooperating with Gulf allies that are increasingly willing to share information on bank accounts linked to members of the Iranian regime.

China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), has expanded its digital yuan program by adding 12 new banks as authorized operators.

Beast Industries, the company owned by YouTuber Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, announced on Monday that it has acquired Step, a mobile banking app created for teenagers and young adults.

A major outage at Westpac is affecting several Australian banks under its ownership, leaving thousands of customers unable to access online banking services or use eftpos terminals.

Azerbaijan and China held talks on human resources management in the banking sector.