THAILAND’S CENTRAL BANK will take further steps to ease restrictions on capital outflows in coming months as it tries to curb gains in the baht, Governor Veerathai Santiprabhob said.

CHINA’S CONSUMER inflation steadied in December while factory price declines moderated, leaving room for monetary easing to cement a recent stabilization in economic growth.

AMERICAN EXPRESS Co. cleared a key hurdle in its bid to accessing China’s $27-trillion payments market after the central bank accepted its application to start a bank card clearing business.

It’s been five years since digital transformation (abbreviated as DX) reached global mainstream consciousness. We owe it to technology vendors who hyped the term in their patently self-serving motives. What have we learned from the past and what prospects are in store for companies that will embark on DX? Let’s examine the evolution of DX over the years, globally and in the Philippine context.

THE PESO climbed against the greenback on Thursday with tensions between US and Iran seen to have somehow subsided.

MONEY SUPPLY in November saw a quicker expansion on the back of the central bank’s easing stance being absorbed by the market.

YIELDS ON term deposits slipped on Wednesday on the back of higher bids as the central bank gave the market fresh signals it would ease monetary policy further this year and amid escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, which may have caused investors to put their money in safer havens.

GOLDMAN SACHS Group, Inc. unveiled details about its consumer business for the first time on Tuesday and will start disclosing its results regularly as part of a broader reporting-line shuffle, responding to long-standing requests for more transparency from analysts and investors. The changes are part of Chief Executive Officer David Solomon’s efforts to get Goldman in line with rivals like JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup that have bigger consumer businesses and share more information with investors.

LONDON — Britain’s financial regulators said on Tuesday they will transform their data crunching capabilities over the coming decade to spot problems in banks and markets earlier.

THE PESO moved sideways on Wednesday as it was supported by the influx of remittances amid risk-off sentiment arising from escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East.

THE GOVERNMENT partially awarded the reissued three-year Treasury bonds (T-bonds) it offered on Tuesday as rates climbed due to faster-than-expected inflation data.

SINGAPORE — Singapore has drawn huge interest from technology firms looking to shake up the city-state’s banking landscape, attracting 21 applications for five digital bank licenses on offer.