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World’s Best Banks 2024—Asia-Pacific

Global Finance

survey, most banks across APAC increased 2023 tech budgets to boost security, transform data and avoid downtime. Its trading and foreign exchange departments scored a 45.5% Wholesale and retail trade loans dominated ABA’s loan portfolio, with the rest lent to the services sector, real estate, construction and manufacturing.

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

Barry Ritholtz

That’s the foreign exchange markets, and to some extent, commodities. And so that’s a really fertile, constructive environment for us to try and generate returns. TROPIN: And you know, we certainly did that on a portion of what we look at as our risk budget. So you know, that’s fixed income markets.