Financial services firms including banks, insurance providers and peer-to-peer (P2P) lenders are increasingly relying on predictive models built using artificial…

Zipmex, a Singaporean digital assets platform, has raised US$41 million in its Series B funding round where Bank of Ayudhya’s…

Network for Electronic Transfers (NETS), a Singaporean electronic payment service provider, announced the appointment of Susan Hwee, UOB’s Head of…

In Asia Pacific (APAC), customers are embracing new payment methods such as digital wallets and buy now pay later (BNPL)…

When Bank Indonesia released a new set of regulations for commercial banks last week, attention turned towards the long-awaited digital…

Vietnamese digital bank Cake announced that it has selected cloud banking platform Mambu to scale its business towards offering a…

With more and more Australian fintech companies interested in expanding into Asia, nine Aussie fintech startups will be showcasing their…

Standard Chartered has formed a joint venture with Linklogis, a supply chain finance technology solution provider in China, to establish…

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has announced the 15 finalists who have developed retail Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)…

In March 2021, Mike Winkelmann, a digital artist, sold a piece of his digital art for a whopping $69.3 million.…

Crypto exchange platform Binance Australia has announced the appointment of Leigh Travers as its Australian Chief Executive Officer. Travers was…

InvestHK, a Hong Kong government’s department responsible for attracting and retaining foreign direct investment, is offering a free-of-charge, comprehensive soft…

Kredivo, an Indonesian Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) platform, announced its expansion into Vietnam through a joint venture with Phoenix…

In Southeast Asia, the emergence of fintech startups and the entrance of bigtechs and platform services providers into the financial…

The proliferation of data and an ever-so complex regulatory environment are driving the rise of regtech, forcing financial institutions to…

PayPal has partnered with the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) to grow its Singapore workforce by nearly 25%.…

OCBC Bank has recovered US$8 million worth of fraudulent transactions within the first year of the deployment of its Fraud…

Digital banking software provider Backbase’s new study found that Singapore’s retail banking sector is struggling to keep its lead against…

UOB’s innovation accelerator The FinLab and Mumpreneurs-Go-Places, an arm of Mums@Work, launched an accelerator programme for aspiring mum entrepreneurs. The…

Global payments network Thunes announced a partnership with Pakistan’s Bank Alfalah to enable real-time affordable cross-border payments to consumers in…