Barclays is building out its Singapore wealth business with a new booking centre for ultra-high-net-worth clients and family…

Mastercard has split its Southeast Asia leadership into two divisions and appointed Beena Pothen to oversee Singapore, Malaysia,…

Managing Partner Khailee Ng says 500 Global remains committed to Southeast Asia despite reports of a shift away…

India has put a proposed UPI and Alipay+ payments link on hold amid security and data concerns. Reuters…

Citi has processed live US dollar transactions with First Abu Dhabi Bank and OCBC using Swift’s blockchain-based ledger.…

Thailand’s SEC will require digital asset operators to share sender and recipient information for transfers from 27 February…

Sumsub has introduced a fraud prevention starter kit after complex attacks jumped 180%. The tool uses onboarding data…

ACI Worldwide has agreed to acquire Cranium Ventures for its card switching technology. Financial terms were not disclosed.…

Singapore-based Laters.com has raised US$1.5 million in seed funding to expand its flight booking and payment platform. XBO…

Singapore and Indonesia are deepening business cooperation to help SMEs use AI tools and reach regional markets. The…

BitGo has opened a new office in Singapore after tripling its Asia Pacific client base over the past…

A group of 21 financial institutions plans to launch a US dollar stablecoin in the first half of…

Construction subcontractors and suppliers in Singapore can now access funds earlier through a financing solution from OCBC, Visa…

Mambu has launched Intelligent Core, its technology architecture for bringing core banking, payments and agentic AI together on…

Unified Payments Interface (UPI) users in India may soon be able to give AI agents limited authority to…

KAST has introduced a business platform that uses stablecoins to settle cross-border transactions around the clock. KAST Business…

Banks can now use Visa’s enhanced A2A Protect service to identify risky transfers before funds leave customer accounts.…

Singapore is moving closer to regulating stablecoin issuers under a dedicated framework. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)…

TMBThanachart Bank (ttb) and DBS Bank have partnered to expand wealth management services for retail investors in Thailand.…

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will invest S$220 million over three years to advance fintech innovation and…

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has identified cyber risk as the most immediate financial stability concern arising from…

The artificial intelligence (AI) economy in Vietnam is projected to reach between US$120 billion and 130 billion by…

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has backed tokenised deposits as a stronger foundation for future payments than…

Advent International and Stripe have reportedly ended their pursuit of PayPal after making an offer worth more than…

500 Global reportedly does not plan to raise another fund focused exclusively on Southeast Asia. New investments in…

Nium now allows businesses to fund their accounts with USDC and make fiat payouts in more than 190…

Huawei Cloud has launched CodeArts Agent commercially in Singapore to automate engineering tasks through 16 specialised AI agents.…

Across Asia-Pacific (APAC), cybercrime syndicates are increasingly employing decentralization strategies to evade detection and disruption, according to a…

HSBC is considering bringing its wholesale, retail and private banking businesses in Singapore together, Bloomberg reported, citing people…

AWS will deploy 2 million more NVIDIA GPUs across its global infrastructure in 2027 and 2028. The expansion…

Visa has upgraded its AI cybersecurity framework to help organisations find and fix vulnerabilities faster. The latest Visa…

Swift has pushed back a November deadline for structured postal addresses in ISO 20022 payment messages after several…

UOB and HSBC have completed live cross-border Hong Kong dollar transactions using tokenised deposits on Swift’s ledger. The…