Maybank Singapore has joined the central bank’s BLOOM initiative to advance programmable cross-border settlement. Launched in October 2025, BLOOM stands…
Allianz Global Investors will acquire UOB Asset Management for S$555 million under an agreement with UOB. The acquisition covers UOB…
HSBC lifted first-half profit before tax by 23% to US$19.5 billion as net interest income and wealth fees increased. Profit…
Cloudflare has launched a wallet and identity system to help AI agents conduct online transactions securely. Cloudflare Wallets and cloudflare.pay…
Tether, TrueUSD and Ethena USD sit at the bottom of S&P Global Ratings’ stablecoin assessments with weak scores. Six of…
Sumsub and Sumvin have partnered to link AI agents with the verified identity of the users they act for. The…
Western Union is bringing stablecoins into everyday payments with the launch of Stablecard in 37 markets. Developed with Rain, Stablecard…
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) does not dictate where banks place branches or cash machines but will step in…
TRM Labs has appointed former Monetary Authority of Singapore regulator Claudia Hui as Head of Compliance Advisory for Asia Pacific.…
10x Banking has raised £40 million (US$53.7 million) in funding from AshGrove Capital after reaching EBITDA profitability. AshGrove Capital joins…
For the first time, more than half of TNG Digital’s revenue comes from outside payments. So what is Malaysia’s largest…
Grab’s lending and digital banking businesses drove a 59% rise in financial services revenue in the second quarter of 2026.…
Ripple has invested in ZILO and Licuido to expand its infrastructure for tokenised capital markets. Financial terms were not disclosed. The…
The bank of 2030 will not be built around branches, fragmented services or siloed channels. It will need to fit…
Visa has struck a US$2.4 billion deal to acquire behavioural fraud intelligence provider BioCatch. The payments company will buy BioCatch…
Australian payment assurance company Eftsure has expanded its network into Singapore, bringing its continuous payment verification controls to the city-state.…
DBS has appointed former Citigroup and Ping An executive Jonathan Larsen to the boards of its holding company and banking…
Reto Marx has taken over as CEO of Sygnum Singapore while co-founder Gerald Goh moves into an executive chairman role.…
Singapore’s payments industry has introduced a voluntary code covering pricing, fraud protection and consumer safeguards. The Payments Industry Code of…
More than 40 financial institutions and eight central banks have tested a shared platform for tokenised cross-border payments under Project…