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BDO Unibank has enhanced its payments infrastructure with Finastra’s Global PAYplus (GPP). Finastra announced that the upgrade supports growing transaction volumes, strengthens operational resilience and improves interoperability across the payments ecosystem. As a leading universal bank in the Philippines, BDO serves retail, commercial, and institutional clients across a broad range of banking and financial services. The bank also supports correspondent banking and fintech partners with payment distribution capabilities into the Philippine market.  The deployment of GPP’s high-value and mass-payments capabilities provides a scalable foundation for current and future payment requirements. BDO currently utilizes the platform for Swift and inbound PESONet processing…

WIDTH has won Pan Asian RegTech Solution Provider of the Year at the ALB Pan Asian Regulatory Awards 2026, held in Singapore on 30 September. Organised by Asian Legal Business, a Thomson Reuters publication, the awards recognise achievements in regulatory and compliance practice across Asia. The win marks another milestone for WIDTH as it celebrates 12 years of compliance technology development. One Platform. Greater Control. WIDTH’s All-in-One Compliance and Risk Decision Intelligence Platform gives compliance teams greater control over how they work: Design your own workflows. A no-code canvas lets teams create and publish workflows, reducing reliance on vendor development…

PingPong is a leading global fintech founded in New York in 2015 and headquartered in Hangzhou, China, with a singular vision: to provide seamless cross-border payment services to e-commerce and enterprise clients. Today, it has 40 offices globally and processes a cumulative total of $350 billion in payment value. With ambitious plans to deliver modern UK payment services to an expanding and diverse customer base, PingPong received its Electronic Money Institution (EMI) licence from the FCA in 2023. This provided the foundations to build its UK business, serving existing ecommerce customers transacting in the UK, and win new business from…

Worldbox Business Intelligence has expanded its database to more than 500 million unique business entities across over 240 jurisdictions. The company said this makes it one of the industry’s most comprehensive corporate data and entity verification databases. “Crossing 500 million entities is a landmark moment. It means that wherever our clients need to verify a business, from Singapore to the Cayman Islands to Nigeria, they get fast, authoritative intelligence from a single integration.” said Adrian Ashurst, Chief Executive Officer, Worldbox Business Intelligence. A Database Built for the World Worldbox’s global coverage is supported by detailed company data, with more than…

Sapiens Technology, the Singapore company behind Agnes AI, has been named to the 2026 Forbes Asia 100 to Watch in the Enterprise Technology category. It is one of just 15 Singapore companies recognised on this year’s list. Agnes AI develops foundation models across text, image and video for use by developers, startups and other product teams. In October 2025, the company reported more than two million registered users worldwide, with about half based in Southeast Asia. The annual list recognises privately held companies and startups across Asia-Pacific, selected on factors including innovation, market fit, business model, growth and industry impact.…

FinVolution Group, a leading fintech company, took part in the Second Global Summit on High-Quality Belt and Road Cooperation in Singapore on September 3, 2026. Co-hosted by the UN Global Compact (UNGC) Belt and Road Initiative Action Platform and the UNGC Singapore Network, the summit brought together representatives from government, business, academia and other sectors to discuss sustainable development under the theme “Connectivity for a Better World.” The summit marked FinVolution’s second consecutive participation in the platform, following its debut at the inaugural summit in Indonesia in 2025. Discussions this year focused on fintech, financial inclusion and sustainable development, among…

Alkagesta, international commodities trader headquartered in Malta, has announced record results for the first half of 2026, with revenue reaching $3.5 billion — a record six-month performance building on the $4.7 billion generated across the full 2025 financial year. Trading volumes rose 53% year over year to 4.9 million metric tonnes, and Alkagesta expects full-year 2026 volumes to exceed 10 million metric tonnes based on current trading activity. A significant driver of this growth has been the continued scaling of the Singapore hub, which reached monthly trading volumes of approximately 250,000 metric tonnes during the first half of 2026 —…

PolicyStreet, an insurtech leader, has received three industry accolades in 2026, including two regional awards recognising its growth and innovation, as the company enters its next phase of expansion across Asia. Most recently, PolicyStreet was named the Fastest Growth Award winner at the inaugural Asia Fintech Alliance (AFA) Awards 2026, held in Taipei on 1 September. The recognition follows PolicyStreet’s Innovative Microinsurance Product win at the Asia Consumer Insurance Awards, recognising the company’s approach to making protection more relevant through personalised microinsurance solutions. PolicyStreet was also named Malaysia’s Most Disruptive Insurtech at the Insurance Asia News (IAN) Country Awards for…

In today’s AI landscape, most platforms still compete on isolated improvements – faster inference, better benchmarks, incremental gains. Agnes AI is a Singapore-based company that has developed and trained its own multimodal AI models in-house, positioning itself as a locally built player in the global AI ecosystem. Agnes AI is taking a different approach. With its model suite now available on Zenmux through API token access, Agnes AI is expanding developer access to its proprietary models while separately launching Agnes Token Plans through its official website. Together, these moves reflect a broader strategy: making full-stack AI more accessible, predictable, and practical…

Singapore is one of the world’s strategic financial hubs and the Asia-Pacific’s pivotal financial industry node. Home to one of the strongest financial exchanges globally, Singapore is well known for its Tier-1 regulatory framework, cutting-edge infrastructure, and business-friendly environment. Its geographical location, political stability, and robust financial and economic sectors have contributed to the city-state’s positioning as the go-to destination for banking, asset and wealth management, hedge funds, and prime brokers. This has contributed to the spectacular growth of Singapore’s financial services sector.  In early 2025, the market capitalisation of the Singapore Exchange (SGX) exceeded US$644 billion, making regional competitors…

The condition of career stagnation in Singapore has its own peculiarities, caused by the nature of the country’s business environment, which in 50-60 years has gone from being a poor port with no resources to one of the richest nations in the world. Therefore, first and foremost, the specific nature of how businesses operate forces us to reject the usual rules and replace the mechanisms inherent in other international business hubs with new ones that will provide a constant effect of growth here. To develop as a global talent on a completely new scale, you need to adapt to Singapore’s…

Little ones deserve a strong start, and early education gradually shapes how they grow, feel, and think. The right way of learning combines gentle support, playful lessons, and guidance from people who understand children well. Experienced and skilled staff play a huge role in helping children feel safe and explore freely. A trusted Singapore pre school offers a space where kids feel truly at home. They build confidence step by step with group play, skilled teachers, and a focus on real emotions. This article highlights how early schools in Singapore help kids grow socially, so parents know what truly matters.…

A payment gateway is a technology that enables businesses to accept online payments by securely processing transactions between the customer and the merchant. It acts as an intermediary, ensuring that sensitive payment information is securely encrypted and transferred during the transaction. As the demand for both traditional and crypto payments continues to rise, choosing the right gateway is crucial for businesses looking to remain competitive and streamline their operations.  The best payment gateway for businesses in 2026 in our rating is NOWPayments, which supports over 350 cryptocurrencies and offers a custodial approach. This flexibility makes NOWPayments one of the top…

TradeTogether has been granted its full Capital Markets Services (CMS) licence by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Thsi enables the company to operate as a fully regulated fund manager in Singapore with a focus on tokenised asset investment strategies. The approval follows TradeTogether’s in-principle approval (IPA) granted in early 2025 and confirms the firm’s successful completion of all regulatory conditions set by MAS. With the full CMS licence, TradeTogether is authorised to expand its regulated fund management activities, supporting discretionary mandates and structured investment strategies for accredited, corporate and institutional investors seeking compliant access to tokenised assets. The licence…

Education shapes how young people think, act, and relate to others long after school ends. Many families in Singapore look for learning paths that help with both academic depth and personal growth. This listicle highlights seven core skills that stay useful through many stages of life, so let’s explore. Critical Thought and Clear Logic An IB-style programme places strong focus on questions, ideas, and evidence. At an IB International school, learners in Singapore review texts, data, and case studies in a way that may help improve how they judge facts. This habit supports deeper thought and a calm approach to…

Indonesia Blockchain Week, held in Jakarta on December 10–11, is the country’s largest digital-finance gathering, bringing together many of the sector’s leading global participants. The conference featured representatives from OJK, alongside a good blend of local & global speakers and sponsors from Tether, Binance, OKX, Tron, D3 Labs, Tokocrypto, Simpan Invest, Saison Capital, Taisu Ventures, and UOB Venture. The event attracted nearly 10,000 participants, making it one of the largest digital-finance conferences in Southeast Asia. As Southeast Asia’s largest economy, Indonesia is rapidly establishing itself as a strategic hub for the global development of real-world assets (RWA). Its market is…

Payment Options, a Singapore-based payment solutions provider, is pleased to announce that it has received In-Principle Approval (IPA) from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for a Major Payment Institution (MPI) licence under the Payment Services Act 2019. This milestone underscores Payment Options’ commitment to supporting Singapore’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with simple, secure, and accessible digital payment solutions. If granted the licence, Payment Options will be authorised to provide three regulated payment services: Merchant Acquisition, Domestic Money Transfer, and Cross-Border Money Transfer. Through these services, the company aims to empower SMEs with a full suite of payment capabilities…

Usually, gross generalisations are unreliable, but there is one all-encompassing statement that holds true. Investors want to make the highest return with the lowest amount of market exposure. When markets are moving in a beneficial direction and in a predictable way, the probability of that outcome increases exponentially.  But what happens when markets are cooling? What if sentiment is also continually shifting towards the cautious and risk-averse? Can the outcome still be beneficial?  There is one type of market participant that knows exactly what to do in this type of situation, who may even offer a lesson to retail traders.…

Pruv Finance announced a $3 million Pre-A round to build the first compliant real-world asset (RWA) infrastructure that enables seamless on-chain distribution of tokenized assets. This funding round was led by UOB Venture Management, with participation from Saison Capital, Taisu Ventures, Ascent, Spiral Ventures and Royal Group. The RWA sector has surpassed $35 billion in market capitalization, yet an estimated 93% of tokenized assets face transfer restrictions — such as whitelist-only trading or complete non-transferability — that prevent seamless DeFi integration and mass adoption. Pruv directly addresses this challenge. As the first and only Digital Financial platform that secured OJK(Indonesia’s…

DECTA, a global payment processing industry leader, has announced the expansion of its world-renowned Fintech Fast Track program to the APAC region. The news comes as DECTA will participate as an exhibitor at the Singapore Fintech Festival 2025 from 12 to 14 November 2025. Fintech Fast Track is a quarterly pilot program that helps high-potential fintechs in card issuing and acquiring scale faster through access to DECTA’s payment infrastructure, reduced pricing, and dedicated support. Selected fintech companies gain exclusive access to DECTA’s direct connections with major card networks—Visa, Mastercard, UnionPay International, and extensive networking opportunities. “We’re thrilled to bring Fintech…