Grab Paid $1.49bn for a Lending Business It Chose Not to Build
The cash is only half the arrangement. What the remaining 40 per cent will cost has already been fixed by a formula, flo...
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Ant International's 89.5% AI Adoption Claim Has No Audit
The adoption figures are precise to a decimal place and every one is the company's own. The headline product is an accou...
SBI Group Anchors the Final Round of dtcpay's US$25 Million Series A
Japan's SBI Group takes a position in a licensed Singapore stablecoin payments firm. Volume, merchants, revenue and valu...
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Nobody Broke Into Revolut. Someone Asked, From a Government Domain.
Passports, verification selfies and full transaction histories went out through the channel that answers official reques...
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...
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...
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...
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