Fintech

Business 4 min IMF and World Bank Publish a 12-Point Plan for Fighting Online Fraud in Finance The Bangkok Blueprint, drawn up with the Bank of Thailand, calls for accountability beyond banks, including pl... EV Eva Chin 15 Oct ASEAN Tech 4 min GCash Priced Its IPO a Third Below the Ceiling. It Can Still Be the Philippines' Biggest. Mynt set P6.60 a share, valuing the e-wallet operator near P442 billion. About four in five base shares are so... SA Sarah Chew 2 Oct Business 4 min Indonesia's DOKU Becomes 'DOKU by Antom' and Makes Its Co-Founder Chief Executive Himelda Renuat also heads Antom Indonesia. Ant International's payments arm says its investment has deepened b... EV Eva Chin 27 Sep Business 6 min 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 fo... EV Eva Chin 19 Sep Business 6 min 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 i... EV Eva Chin 18 Sep Business 5 min 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, revenu... EV Eva Chin 18 Sep Privacy & Data 6 min Nobody Broke Into Revolut. Someone Asked, From a Government Domain. Passports, verification selfies and full transaction histories went out through the channel that answers offic... PR Priya Nair 14 Sep Finance 6 min 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 preferre... DA Daniel Koh 1 Sep Finance 6 min 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... DA Daniel Koh 31 Aug Finance 7 min 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,... DA Daniel Koh 31 Aug ASEAN Tech 8 min 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... SA Sarah Chew 22 Aug Finance 8 min 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... DA Daniel Koh 8 Aug Business 9 min 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... EV Eva Chin 7 Aug Business 8 min 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 i... EV Eva Chin 5 Aug Finance 9 min 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 measure... DA Daniel Koh 5 Aug Finance 9 min 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... SA Sarah Chew 5 Aug ASEAN Tech 5 min 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. Neg... SA Sarah Chew 2 Aug Finance 6 min 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 reli... SA Sarah Chew 11 Jul ASEAN Tech 6 min 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 i... PR Priya Nair 11 Jul ASEAN Tech 6 min MAS Is Building an Institute to End the Pilot Era — Singapore's Bet That the Hard Part of Fintech Is Deployment MAS announced on 25 June it will establish a Future of Finance Institute to move AI and tokenisation from expe... SA Sarah Chew 11 Jul ASEAN Tech 7 min Igloo Buys Eazy Digital in Its Second Thailand Move in a Year — a Bet on Insurtech Consolidation Singapore insurtech Igloo has acquired Eazy Digital, a Singapore-headquartered insurtech with operations acros... SA Sarah Chew 9 Jul ASEAN Tech 6 min MAS Opens an AI-Themed 2026 Global FinTech Hackcelerator and SFF Excellence Awards On 29 June 2026, the Monetary Authority of Singapore opened applications for the 2026 Global FinTech Hackceler... SA Sarah Chew 2 Jul ASEAN Tech 7 min Vietnam Calls for a Connected ASEAN Fintech Ecosystem at the AFF 2026 — but the Standards Are the Hard Part At an ASEAN Future Forum 2026 seminar in Hanoi, Vietnam's Deputy PM Nguyen Van Thang urged the region to conne... SA Sarah Chew 11 Jun Finance 6 min 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 settlemen... DA Daniel Koh 8 Jun