Pay-to-Play Is Not a Funding Round. It Is a Choice With a Penalty.
Reported as a funding round, it is a mechanism: investors who decline to put in more money have their preferred shares c...
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SBI Buys Access to 20 Million Indonesian Investors. Do They Want Yen?
Indonesians earn, spend and save in rupiah, and hold dollars when they hold a stablecoin at all. The question nobody is...
One Deal Was Two Thirds of Singapore's Fintech Funding This Half
The report says investment moderated. Money fell by two thirds while global fintech funding rose 43 per cent, and a sing...
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The Project Linking ASEAN's Payment Systems Has A Company, A Tender And Two Go-Live Dates
Nexus would connect India's UPI, Singapore's PayNow and Thailand's PromptPay through one hub. Governance sits in a Singa...
MAS Wants a 21-Day Path for Complex Funds. In May It Dropped the Advice Requirement.
MAS has proposed an Alternative Funds Appendix that would let a derivative-heavy or undiversified retail fund be authori...
Indonesia Halved GoTo's Ride Commission. Its Two Profit Guidance Ranges Simply Swapped
A presidential regulation cut the two-wheeler commission cap from 20 per cent to 8. GoTo kept its group profit guidance...
Grab's Profit Rose 54%. Its Biggest Profit Engine Got Slightly Worse
Grab reported record second-quarter results. On its own measure, the segment carrying most of the profit saw its margin...
In February the BSP Said 70% Was Not Doable. In July It Said It Was Likely
The Philippine central bank's outlook on its 2028 digital payments target reversed in five months. The measurement under...
Indonesia's Crypto Market Now Answers to the Regulator That Supervises Banks
On 1 July the governance and reporting duties of a financial-sector business took effect for Indonesian crypto platforms...
ASEAN Tech Summit Convenes in Manila as the Region's Digital Trade Pact Heads for a November Signing
Organisers expected more than 4,000 delegates in Pasay City on 28–29 July, under the Philippine chairship. Negotiations...
Klarna Applies to Become a US Bank — Not Act Like One — With a Utah Charter Bid
Klarna filed on 6 July for a Utah industrial bank charter to bring its US banking in-house and reduce its reliance on pa...
MAS's SAFR Framework Puts the Safeguard Where the Money Moves — At the Point an AI Agent Acts
Singapore's MAS and industry partners published SAFR on 3 July, a voluntary framework that governs AI agents in finance...
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