Singapore-based trade finance platform Olea has raised US$30 million in a Series A funding round. The round was led by…
StraitsX plans to launch its Singapore dollar-backed stablecoin XSGD and US dollar-backed stablecoin XUSD on the Solana public blockchain, with…
Singapore-based payments firm MetaComp has teamed up with Stable to expand the use of stablecoins in cross-border payments. MetaComp is…
Singapore-based fintech Aspire has secured a series of regulatory approvals across Australia, Europe and the United States. This lays the…
Singapore-based insurtech firm bolttech has partnered with telecoms company Orange Poland to launch a digital insurance comparison platform. The service…
Visa has launched a stablecoins advisory service to help banks, fintechs, merchants and businesses of all sizes assess how stablecoins…
Fintech continues to gain strong momentum year-on-year, driven by customer growth and demand. A 2024 global study by the Cambridge…
Singapore and China have announced a new set of financial initiatives, including the appointment of DBS Bank as Singapore’s second…
Thunes has promoted Chloé Mayenobe to Deputy CEO as it sharpens its leadership structure to support global expansion. Mayenobe was…
Over the past year, there has been a clear shift in conversations with banking and fintech leaders across Singapore, Malaysia,…
Stripe has launched the Agentic Commerce Suite to help businesses sell through AI agents as online shopping evolves. The suite…
Vietnam has set up a dedicated regulatory unit to oversee crypto asset trading, marking a further step toward formalising supervision…
Though AI is now nearly ubiquitous across the financial, technology, and fintech sectors, many firms are still struggling to achieve…
Mastercard has teamed up with TerraPay to enable contactless payments for digital wallets across its global acceptance network. Under the…
A decade ago, a lot of day-to-day spending in Asia-Pacific still meant cash and paper slips. Today, most of that…
With a large unbanked population, increasing mobile Internet connectivity, and fast-growing economies, Asia-Pacific (APAC) has emerged into one of the…
Standard Chartered and Coinbase are expanding their partnership to explore new digital asset services for institutional clients. The two companies…
Ant International, HSBC, and Swift have completed a Proof of Concept (POC) demonstrating the cross-border transfer of tokenised deposits using…
A New York judge has sentenced a former crypto entrepreneur to 15 years in prison after he caused two digital…
Instarem, a digital payments platform under Nium, now lets SMEs apply for non dilutive funding directly inside its business platform…