Indonesia Blockchain Week, held in Jakarta on December 10–11, is the country’s largest digital-finance gathering, bringing together many…

SHOPLINE has received a Major Payment Institution licensce from Singapore’s central bank, allowing it to provide regulated payment…

For millions of people, crypto has shifted from a speculative asset to a critical utility. It has become…

Singapore-based trade finance platform Olea has raised US$30 million in a Series A funding round. The round was…

StraitsX plans to launch its Singapore dollar-backed stablecoin XSGD and US dollar-backed stablecoin XUSD on the Solana public…

Singapore-based payments firm MetaComp has teamed up with Stable to expand the use of stablecoins in cross-border payments.…

Singapore-based fintech Aspire has secured a series of regulatory approvals across Australia, Europe and the United States. This…

Singapore-based insurtech firm bolttech has partnered with telecoms company Orange Poland to launch a digital insurance comparison platform.…

Visa has launched a stablecoins advisory service to help banks, fintechs, merchants and businesses of all sizes assess…

Fintech continues to gain strong momentum year-on-year, driven by customer growth and demand. A 2024 global study by…

Singapore and China have announced a new set of financial initiatives, including the appointment of DBS Bank as…

Thunes has promoted Chloé Mayenobe to Deputy CEO as it sharpens its leadership structure to support global expansion.…

Over the past year, there has been a clear shift in conversations with banking and fintech leaders across…

Stripe has launched the Agentic Commerce Suite to help businesses sell through AI agents as online shopping evolves.…

Vietnam has set up a dedicated regulatory unit to oversee crypto asset trading, marking a further step toward…

Though AI is now nearly ubiquitous across the financial, technology, and fintech sectors, many firms are still struggling…

Mastercard has teamed up with TerraPay to enable contactless payments for digital wallets across its global acceptance network.…

A decade ago, a lot of day-to-day spending in Asia-Pacific still meant cash and paper slips. Today, most…

With a large unbanked population, increasing mobile Internet connectivity, and fast-growing economies, Asia-Pacific (APAC) has emerged into one…

Standard Chartered and Coinbase are expanding their partnership to explore new digital asset services for institutional clients. The…

Ant International, HSBC, and Swift have completed a Proof of Concept (POC) demonstrating the cross-border transfer of tokenised…

A New York judge has sentenced a former crypto entrepreneur to 15 years in prison after he caused…

Instarem, a digital payments platform under Nium, now lets SMEs apply for non dilutive funding directly inside its…

Trust Bank has rolled out its 2025 Year-End Rewind, a feature in the Trust App that gives customers…

A DBS Bank employee helped an elderly woman avoid losing more than S$200,000 in a suspected scam, according…

As 2025 draws to a close, one thing is clear: the world of financial services is compounding. Every…

A Malaysian man has been sentenced to five and a half years in jail for helping an overseas…

IBM and Confluent have signed a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire all issued and outstanding Confluent common…

HSBC’s drive to become a leaner institution began with dismantling co-management roles that CEO Georges Elhedery said had…

Syfe reported more than US$2 billion in client returns in 2025 and said it reached group profitability in…

Fibe has raised 35 million US dollars from International Finance Corporation (IFC) in its Series F funding round.…

Validus has raised US$30 million in a Series D funding round led by Khazanah Nasional, Malaysia’s sovereign wealth…

Razorpay Singapore has launched a checkout feature that applies instant, payment specific discounts to help merchants cut costs…