Singapore recorded a 579 percent rise in AML and CFT fines issued by the central bank last year.…

Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed criminal complaints against five individuals for allegedly running unlicensed Worldcoin…

Rokid is integrating payment features into its smart glasses through a partnership with Ant International, which will enable…

Google has launched a new open standard to support agent-led shopping across search and chat platforms as Ant…

Companies seeking a simultaneous listing on SGX and Nasdaq may soon face fewer regulatory hurdles under proposals that…

MariBank now offers physical gold investing from S$1 through its new Mari Invest Gold product. The service gives…

Though cash remains the dominant payment method for tourists in Thailand, cashless options are gaining traction due to…

Fireblocks has announced the acquisition of TRES Finance, a specialist in crypto accounting, reconciliation, and financial controls. The…

StraitsX announced the completion of Apple Pay In-App provisioning certification for Pionex Cards. The work was carried out…

Thailand is marching toward a cashless society. With mobile wallet adoption expected to reach 63% in 2025 and…

Salesforce has appointed Paul Carvouni as Senior Vice President and General Manager for ASEAN. In this role, he…

KAST, the global financial platform built on stablecoin infrastructure, has expanded its Global Payouts feature, allowing users to…

Temenos, a global banking software provider, has entered into a strategic partnership with Myanmar Citizens Bank (MCB) to…

HashKey Capital has announced the first closing of its fourth fund, HashKey Fintech Multi-Strategy Fund IV (Fund IV),…

Standard Chartered has introduced a tokenised deposits solution for SGD and USD in Singapore, first adopted by Ant…

Bhutan has unveiled a national Bitcoin Development Pledge. It will allocate up to 10,000 bitcoin (BTC), valued at…

Scam offenders in Singapore will face caning from 30 December 2025 as tougher criminal penalties take effect. The…

For much of the past decade, the Asia Pacific was treated as crypto’s permissive frontier. A region where…

iProov, a provider of biometric identity verification solutions, announced that an attack scenario demonstrated by its in-house Red…

For decades, the holy grail of financial technology was invisibility. The industry spent billions waging a war on…

Drukair, Royal Bhutan Airlines, has entered into a strategic partnership with Worldpay to adopt a global payment gateway…

Google Pay is pushing further into financial services in India with a new UPI-linked digital credit card. The…

Japan’s banks have long been admired for their discipline, risk awareness and ability to support the corporate sector…

Akamai Technologies and Visa have partnered to address security and trust challenges as artificial intelligence agents become more…

Crypto.com has enabled SGD and USD deposits and withdrawals for Singapore users through a new partnership with DBS…

Provenir has launched a new educational initiative aimed at helping banks and financial institutions improve their understanding, adoption…

Red Hat has announced the acquisition of Chatterbox Labs to integrate critical safety testing and guardrail capabilities into…

Efforts to modernise cross-border payments have accelerated over the past decade, yet retail transactions remain slower, more expensive,…

Japan’s Mizuho Securities will acquire a controlling stake in India’s Avendus for up to US$523 million (81 billion…

Amazon is in preliminary talks to invest at least US$10 billion in OpenAI and provide its Trainium chips,…

The Summit opened with a jolt when a convincing deepfake of Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer Peter Sever…

Global payments group Zepz has partnered with Fireblocks to expand the use of stablecoins in remittances for WorldRemit…

Databricks has raised more than US$4 billion in a Series L funding round that values the data and…