Temenos and Myanmar Citizens Bank collaborate to strengthen core banking operations and enable real-time payments.

HashKey Capital secures a US$250 million first close for its fourth fund, targeting scalable blockchain infrastructure and ...

Singapore’s fintech story has always been about speed, but 2025 feels different. This is the year when years of policy work and infrastructure building move from pilot to production. Digital rails, ...

Fraud in the Asia Pacific is growing at an explosive pace and scale, forcing financial institutions to rethink where and how they detect risk.

Scam offenders in Singapore will face caning from 30 December 2025 as tougher criminal penalties take effect. The changes are ...

Bhutan commits 10,000 bitcoin to develop Gelephu Mindfulness City, using digital assets to boost economic diversification and ...

Standard Chartered has rolled out tokenised SGD and USD deposits in Singapore, with Ant International as the first client.

SC Ventures, Standard Chartered’s fintech investment arm, has launched Labamu, an invoicing and billing platform for APAC small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Labamu aims to improve operations, ...

10 years ago, Southeast Asia’s digital economy felt like a wave just beginning to crest: a swirl of marketplaces, wallets, and superapps chasing the promise of a connected region. Fast-forward to 2025 ...

Payments platform EBANX is stepping up its push into emerging markets by rolling out stablecoin payments, launching AI-powered tools and expanding to the Philippines. The company said merchants will ...

XWeave, a startup developing infrastructure for stablecoin-based cross-border payments, has raised US$3 million in seed funding. The round was led by Jungle Ventures through its First Cheque@Jungle ...

Building on the technological strides and increased adoption seen in 2024, the fintech trends in Asia-Pacific (APAC) signal significant growth for the region’s financial sector in 2025. This growth ...