Payments

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 Chen 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 ASEAN Tech 5 min Mastercard Switches On AI-Agent Payments in Singapore and Malaysia Mastercard has taken agentic commerce live in its first two ASEAN markets, letting verified AI agents pay on a... DA Daniel Koh 6 Jun Finance 4 min 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 stab... FI Finance Desk 18 May Developer Tools 5 min Stripe Releases 288 New Features for AI Commerce — Including Agent Payments and Real-Time Fraud for Autonomous Transactions Stripe's latest product release covers 288 new features and updates focused on AI-native commerce infrastructu... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 2 May Finance 5 min 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... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 25 Apr