Payments

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 5 min Jollibee Sold 11 Per Cent of Highlands Coffee, Giving the Founder Majority Control The buyer is the founder's own company, which rises to 51 per cent. The price values the Vietnamese chain at a... EV Eva Chin 26 Sep Business 4 min Indonesia and Hong Kong Talk QR Payments That Bypass the Dollar The memorandum is exploratory, with no timetable and no pilot. What it actually rests on appears in the Indone... EV Eva Chin 25 Sep ASEAN Tech 4 min UnionPay Says Its QR Network Reaches Every ASEAN Country The figure was disclosed at a trade fair in Nanning, not audited. A 90 per cent fall in fraud at pilot banks a... SA Sarah Chew 25 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 Consumer Tech 6 min Nobody Broke Into X. The Reset Emails Were the Point. X says it has found no evidence of a breach, and the described method needs nothing but public usernames. The... AM Amelia Wong 2 Sep 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 6 min The Card Networks Just Agreed to Run Nodes on a Blockchain Visa, Mastercard, DTCC, ICE and BlackRock are among eleven founding validators on Circle's Arc. Fees are paid... SA Sarah Chew 11 Aug Finance 6 min Google Will Hold Your Child's Money. It Is Not a Bank Account. A stored balance for under-18s, controlled through Family Link, with real-time visibility of every transaction... DA Daniel Koh 11 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 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 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 7 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... DA Daniel Koh 18 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 5 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 release covers 288 new products and features, with AI commerce a headline theme — including pa... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 5 May