More than 70% of Southeast Asian adults remain unbanked or underbanked. That is not a development statistic. It is the…
Anthropic has tapped Macquarie Asset Management and GIC to develop data center infrastructure as demand for Claude grows. The partnership…
OCBC has added platinum and palladium trading to its mobile app as it expands access to precious metals for retail…
India is revising its digital payments rules to let the government decide which electronic payment methods are protected from charges.…
ShopBack is extending its Visa tie-up in Singapore to in-store payments through ShopBack Pay. Consumers can earn rewards when paying…
Singapore will push ahead with artificial intelligence (AI) adoption while investing in worker training to help people adjust to changes…
Grab has been hit with a VND 1.36 billion fine, about US$52,000, in Vietnam over failures in consumer data and…
Banking is experiencing its most disruptive decade yet, and it is becoming increasingly hard to cut through the noise given…
Roojai plans to move beyond its motor insurance base by adding more health products and expanding across the region, according…
AI has outgrown the role of an assistant, now moving money, approving transactions, and carrying out multi-step tasks with little…
Franklin Templeton has appointed Rene Buehlmann as Head of Asia Pacific and Elizabeth Hogbin as Head of Global Product in…
FIS has brought its commercial banking platform to APAC to help banks serve businesses across multiple segments without overhauling their…
Aspire has tapped Flagright to strengthen financial crime compliance across its business finance platform. The Singapore-headquartered fintech, which serves more…
Tap a multi-currency card in Tokyo, and the payment looks no different from any other card transaction. Behind the tap,…
DBS is matching different AI models to different tasks as it looks to contain costs while usage grows. Chief Executive…
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will bring more banks onto COSMIC and widen the platform’s scope beyond its three…
Singapore’s financial regulator has licensed 37 digital payment token service providers out of nearly 300 applications since its regulatory framework…
Mastercard and Borderless.xyz are testing whether assurance signals can reduce compliance friction in cross-border stablecoin payments. The pilot will explore…
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will soon finalise its AI risk management guidelines. The guidelines will cover agentic AI…
DBS has introduced a new initiative to help Singapore SMEs manage working capital, adopt AI and handle overseas payments. The…