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...
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MAS Tightened Again and Most Economists Missed It. What "Steepening the Slope" Actually Means
Singapore does not set an interest rate. It steers a currency band, and on 27 July it steered harder — against the expec...
Four Companies Spent $166 Billion on Capital Projects in One Quarter. The Market Rewarded Two of Them
Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta reported within nine days. Combined capital spending nearly doubled year on year, a...
Bank Indonesia Held at 5.75% — the Corridor and the Credit Number Say More Than the Decision
The hold was the least informative line in the release. The rate corridor is asymmetric, credit is running 0.67 points a...
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...
Honeywell Spin-off Solstice to Buy Element Solutions for $14.5B, Betting on the Materials Layer of the AI Boom
Solstice Advanced Materials, the specialty-chemicals business spun off from Honeywell in October 2025, has agreed to acq...
The FCA's Mills Review: No New AI Rulebook for Finance — but Targeted New Powers, Including Over the Vendors
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority published the Mills Review on 6 July 2026 — the first regulator-led review of its k...
OpenAI Files Confidentially for an IPO — What Is Actually Confirmed, and What Is Still Just a Target
OpenAI has confirmed it submitted a confidential draft IPO registration to the SEC. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are...
Stablecoins Are Becoming Settlement Plumbing — and Singapore's Rulebook Is About to Matter
Early-June moves by Mastercard and Visa show stablecoins shifting from speculative asset to back-end settlement rail. As...
SoFi Coach Shows Where Fintech AI Is Really Heading
SoFi Coach brings AI financial guidance directly into a consumer fintech app. The bigger signal is not chat itself, but...
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,...
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