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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

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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

The open door of a bank vault, its steel locking bolts and brass mechanism exposed — illustrative of the incumbent settlement institutions now signing up to operate nodes on a new ledger.

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

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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

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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 4 Aug

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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