Revolut customers in Singapore can now get up to 12 months of ChatGPT Go at no extra cost.…

More than 70% of Southeast Asian adults remain unbanked or underbanked. That is not a development statistic. It…

Anthropic has tapped Macquarie Asset Management and GIC to develop data center infrastructure as demand for Claude grows.…

OCBC has added platinum and palladium trading to its mobile app as it expands access to precious metals…

India is revising its digital payments rules to let the government decide which electronic payment methods are protected…

ShopBack is extending its Visa tie-up in Singapore to in-store payments through ShopBack Pay. Consumers can earn rewards…

Singapore will push ahead with artificial intelligence (AI) adoption while investing in worker training to help people adjust…

Grab has been hit with a VND 1.36 billion fine, about US$52,000, in Vietnam over failures in consumer…

Roojai plans to move beyond its motor insurance base by adding more health products and expanding across the…

AI has outgrown the role of an assistant, now moving money, approving transactions, and carrying out multi-step tasks…

Franklin Templeton has appointed Rene Buehlmann as Head of Asia Pacific and Elizabeth Hogbin as Head of Global…

FIS has brought its commercial banking platform to APAC to help banks serve businesses across multiple segments without…

Aspire has tapped Flagright to strengthen financial crime compliance across its business finance platform. The Singapore-headquartered fintech, which…

Tap a multi-currency card in Tokyo, and the payment looks no different from any other card transaction. Behind…

DBS is matching different AI models to different tasks as it looks to contain costs while usage grows.…

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will bring more banks onto COSMIC and widen the platform’s scope beyond…

Singapore’s financial regulator has licensed 37 digital payment token service providers out of nearly 300 applications since its…

Mastercard and Borderless.xyz are testing whether assurance signals can reduce compliance friction in cross-border stablecoin payments. The pilot…

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will soon finalise its AI risk management guidelines. The guidelines will cover…

DBS has introduced a new initiative to help Singapore SMEs manage working capital, adopt AI and handle overseas…

Maybank Singapore has joined the central bank’s BLOOM initiative to advance programmable cross-border settlement. Launched in October 2025,…

Allianz Global Investors will acquire UOB Asset Management for S$555 million under an agreement with UOB. The acquisition…

HSBC lifted first-half profit before tax by 23% to US$19.5 billion as net interest income and wealth fees…

Cloudflare has launched a wallet and identity system to help AI agents conduct online transactions securely. Cloudflare Wallets…

Tether, TrueUSD and Ethena USD sit at the bottom of S&P Global Ratings’ stablecoin assessments with weak scores.…

Sumsub and Sumvin have partnered to link AI agents with the verified identity of the users they act…

Western Union is bringing stablecoins into everyday payments with the launch of Stablecard in 37 markets. Developed with…

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) does not dictate where banks place branches or cash machines but will…

TRM Labs has appointed former Monetary Authority of Singapore regulator Claudia Hui as Head of Compliance Advisory for…

10x Banking has raised £40 million (US$53.7 million) in funding from AshGrove Capital after reaching EBITDA profitability. AshGrove…

Grab’s lending and digital banking businesses drove a 59% rise in financial services revenue in the second quarter…

Ripple has invested in ZILO and Licuido to expand its infrastructure for tokenised capital markets. Financial terms were not…

Visa has struck a US$2.4 billion deal to acquire behavioural fraud intelligence provider BioCatch. The payments company will…