Franklin Templeton is working with DigiFT to widen institutional access to its Benji tokenisation platform in Asia. The…

Fireblocks has launched its Agentic Payments Suite to support stablecoin payments initiated by AI agents across blockchains. The…

HSBC CEO Georges Elhedery has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) will change the shape of work in financial…

OpenAI has chosen Singapore for its first Applied AI Lab outside the United States as part of a…

Standard Chartered’s AI-driven job cuts have come under fresh scrutiny after CEO Bill Winters’ ‘lower-value human capital’ remark…

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has revoked the Major Payment Institution License of Bsquared Technology (BSQ) following…

DBS is partnering with the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) to develop financing approaches and internal banking capabilities for…

Primer has raised US$100 million in Series C funding to expand its AI payments platform and grow its…

Mastercard has launched Merchant Trust Services to help banks and payment providers detect scam merchants earlier. The service…

GXS Bank is expanding GXS Invest beyond cash with new funds covering bonds, diversified assets, equities and gold.…

Tazapay has added iPiD’s payee verification tools to help businesses check payment recipients before sending money across borders.…

Paymentology has appointed Fiona Tee as its new Chief Financial Officer. Tee joins from cross-border payments firm Currencycloud,…

Khairi Azmi has joined Paxos as CEO of Paxos Global and Head of APAC, according to his LinkedIn…

Clicx Bank is preparing to launch services next month after receiving approval to operate as a virtual bank…

The bigger risk for banks in ASEAN isn’t that regulators will slow down agentic AI. It’s the widening…

Banking Circle Group has appointed Kush Saxena as Group CEO, with its co-founders set to move into advisory…

DBS plans to take in more than 500 young local talent this year across its Management Associate, Internship and…

Standard Chartered layoffs will affect more than 7,000 roles by 2030, with automation and artificial intelligence (AI) expected…

DBS Group CEO Tan Su Shan has trimmed her shareholding after the bank’s stock moved back above S$60.…

Ken Wong has joined Vietnam Prosperity Joint-Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank) as Chief Data Officer and a member of…

Prudential will acquire a 75% stake in Bharti Life Insurance as it repositions its India operations. The insurer…

Standard Chartered has appointed Manus Costello as Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO) as the bank updates its senior…

Agentic commerce has started to move into live use, and the payment industry is beginning to confront a…

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will remove the mandatory financial advice requirement for most investors buying complex…

Atos and Backbase have formed a new partnership to support banks moving AI from pilots into regulated digital…

BTSE Bhutan has moved closer to securing a licence for digital asset trading and custody services in Gelephu…

Payoneer will continue powering international payouts for Upwork freelancers as the two companies extend a partnership that has…

Revolut has appointed Michael Schroeder as Global Head of Crypto Expansion as it looks to grow its crypto…

The AI debt collection tool by TP delivered a 40% debt recovery rate in live client deployments while…

In India, the government is turning to welfare payments to drive adoption of its central bank digital currency…

Fasset has raised US$51 million in Series B funding to expand its regulated stablecoin banking services. The round…

Broadridge is bringing tokenised securities into the same infrastructure institutional firms use for traditional assets. The company has…

Travellers from Nepal can now make QR payments across Sri Lanka by using selected domestic payment apps at…