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Snowflake jumps 36 per cent in a day on an earnings beat and a US$6 billion AWS chip deal
Snowflake had its best day as a public company on 28 May, closing up 36 per cent after a clean first-quarter beat and a...
MAS Scraps Mandatory Financial Advice for Most Complex Product Buyers in Retail Shake-Up
Singapore retail investors buying structured notes, derivatives and investment-linked policies will no longer need manda...
SEC Rewrites Float Rules, PSE Moves to Implement Them — Clearing the Path for GCash's USD 1B Philippine IPO
The SEC lowered the public float floor for large Philippine issuers in February 2026. The PSE followed with a consultati...
Vietnam Shortlists Five Crypto Exchanges for Q3 2026 Regulated Digital Asset Market Launch
Vietnam's Ministry of Finance has cleared five exchanges — VIXEX, SCEX, CAEX, TCEX, and Vietnam Digital Assets — for pil...
Hong Kong's First Licensed HKD Stablecoins Are Months Away as HSBC and Anchorpoint Ready Commercial Launches
Hong Kong awarded its first stablecoin issuer licences on 10 April 2026 — HSBC and Anchorpoint Financial each received a...
UPI Posts All-Time Monthly Record of 23.2 Billion Transactions in May 2026, Handling Nearly Half of Global Real-Time Payments
India's UPI processed 23.20 billion transactions worth ₹29.90 lakh crore in May 2026 — a new all-time monthly high — gro...
Nubank Posts $5 Billion Quarterly Revenue and 135 Million Customers as NuFormer AI Goes Live in Credit Decisioning
Nu Holdings crossed $5 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time in Q1 2026, reported 135 million customers global...
KakaoBank Lines Up Planners and Managers for Won-Stablecoin Push as South Korea's Crypto Law Stalls Again
KakaoBank has posted roles for stablecoin service planners and business planning managers, while sister company KakaoPay...
SK Hynix Crosses US$1 Trillion, Giving South Korea Two Trillion-Dollar Companies at Once
SK Hynix shares rose 9.41% on 27 May 2026, pushing its market cap to roughly US$1.07 trillion — three weeks after Samsun...
SoftBank Dethrones Toyota as Japan's Most Valuable Company on AI Wave, Marking First Shift in 22 Years
SoftBank Group surged 14% in a single Tokyo session on 1 June 2026, pushing its market cap past Toyota's ¥45.8 trillion...
Anthropic Is Closing a $30 Billion Round at a $900 Billion Valuation — Past OpenAI
Anthropic is set to close a funding round of more than $30 billion at a valuation above $900 billion — enough to leapfro...
Bloomberg Ships BloombergGPT 2 Inside the Terminal — Beats GPT-5.5 on Financial Tasks at $5K/Month
Bloomberg released BloombergGPT 2 on Monday, exclusively inside the Terminal as a $5,000-per-seat add-on. The 70-billion...
Western Union Picks Fireblocks for USDPT — Stablecoin Settlement Hits Remittance Rails First in Philippines and Bolivia
On 4 May 2026 Western Union announced Fireblocks will power USDPT, the company's first U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin. Se...
Malaysia Fintech 2030 Launches Talent-Pipeline MoU at Money20/20 Asia in Bangkok
The Fintech Association of Malaysia signed a memorandum with Manaf Gardner Associates at Money20/20 Asia on 2 May 2026,...
PayPal's AI Reckoning: New CEO Cuts 4,760 Jobs and Bets $1.5 Billion on Machine-Led Transformation
PayPal announced 4,760 job cuts (20% of workforce) as new CEO Enrique Lores restructures the company into three business...
Coinbase Joins PayPal in AI-Driven Job Cuts: Is the Great Fintech Workforce Reset Just Beginning?
Coinbase (14% cuts) and PayPal (20% cuts) announced AI-driven workforce reductions on the same day, capping a wave that...
The $860 Billion Agentic Commerce Opportunity: How AI Is Rewiring Global Payments From the Inside Out
PayPal's $860B TAM estimate for its three new business units frames the scale of the agentic commerce opportunity as Str...
Bitcoin Breaks $80,000 at Consensus 2026 as ETF Inflows Hit $1.97 Billion in April
Bitcoin broke $80,000 on May 4 as Consensus 2026 opened in Miami. April ETF inflows hit $1.97B — the strongest month of...
Visa Launches "Agentic Ready" Programme in Singapore as Stablecoin Settlements Hit $7 Billion Annually
Visa has launched its Agentic Ready programme with 13 Singapore issuers to prepare banks for AI-agent payments, while it...
Robinhood Gets MAS Approval for Singapore — What It Means for Retail Investors
Robinhood received in-principle approval from MAS to launch brokerage services in Singapore. Here is what this means for...
Western Union's USD Stablecoin Is Coming in May 2026 — What ASEAN Remittance Senders Need to Know
Western Union is launching a USD-backed stablecoin in May 2026 for faster, cheaper cross-border transfers. Here is what...
Singapore CPF Investment Returns Hit 10-Year High — What Savers Need to Know in 2026
Singapore CPF investment returns hit a 10-year high in 2025. Here is what CPF members, SRS account holders, and retail i...
Malaysia Advances ASEAN's First 24/7 RTGS System — Here Is What It Means for Regional Payments
Malaysia advanced ASEAN's first 24/7 Real-Time Gross Settlement system. Here is what this means for businesses and cross...
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