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…

Banks have been the backbone of merchant acquiring.  Their regulatory strength, trusted brands, and long-standing merchant relationships established…

Despite growing demand for product personalization, most banking customers are underwhelmed by the personalization they receive, underscoring a…

Amazon will invest more than US$35 billion across its businesses in India through 2030, adding to the nearly…

When you meet Vince Iswara, the CEO and Co-Founder of DANA, you quickly realise he is not the…

Pakistani fintech NayaPay has launched global QR payments through a collaboration with Alipay+, enabling users to make payments…

Not long ago, banking in Asia Pacific meant standing in line at a branch, filling out slips of…

TenPay Global and Mastercard have formed a partnership that enables fast and secure remittances to Weixin Pay. This…

Airwallex has acquired a majority stake in Skye Sab Indonesia, a Category 1 PJP (Penyedia Jasa Pembayaran) license…

Microsoft will invest US$17.5 billion in India over four years to expand its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI)…

At this year’s Singapore FinTech Festival, one statistic kept coming up in our conversations with industry leaders. 79%…

Endowus, an independent wealth advisor and investment platform in Asia, has launched its Income Enhanced Portfolio, available to…

Singapore-based payment services provider MetaComp has raised US$22 million in a Pre-A funding round aimed at scaling its…

Universities have long operated beyond the boundaries of traditional classrooms. Their value lies in academic instruction while also…

Bybit has announced a strategic partnership with an affiliate of Circle. The partnership will expand USDC access across…

Granite Asia has completed the first close of its Pan-Asia private credit strategy, Libra Hybrid, raising more than…

Identity verification platform Trulioo has announced it is joining Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) initiative to support secure,…

PvX, a Singapore-based financial services platform for consumer applications, has announced it has surpassed US$250 million in committed…

Airwallex has raised US$330 million in a Series G funding round led by Addition, with participation from T.…