#Fintech
52 stories tagged Fintech, newest first.
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
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Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Monday, October 26, 2026
Zip lost half its value in a morning after fraudsters opened fake accounts: the BNPL warning for Southeast Asia
Zip Co shares plunged as much as 50.5 percent on 23 October after the buy now pay later firm disclosed a coordinated US fraud attack using new accounts. Bad debts jumped to 49.5 million Australian dollars.
AI agents are logging into bank accounts and banks cannot tell who sent them: why Wall Street is blocking them
Major US banks found third party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, sometimes with customers' own passwords. Morgan Stanley is blocking them and JPMorgan, Bank of America and Citi are restricting access.
Sea wants to list Monee and take on AWS with Sea Cloud: why investors sold the news
Sea founder Forrest Li told staff the group plans to list its fintech arm Monee and launch Sea Cloud, an AI first enterprise platform. Sea's shares fell nearly 8 percent on 20 October as investors weighed the cost of the cloud push.
Friday, October 23, 2026
Philippine digital banks are fighting for your remittances and your phone load, and the battle is getting interesting
GoTyme is pushing cross border remittances through its Wise powered service ahead of the holidays, while Tonik has added mobile load and game credits inside its app. Digital banks want to own everyday money, not just savings.
Citi and HSBC back a Singapore startup that checks who you are paying before the money leaves
Singapore fintech IPID has raised 16 million dollars in a Series A led by Foundation Capital, with Citi and HSBC joining. Its account verification network targets one of finance's costliest problems: money sent to the wrong person.
Thursday, October 22, 2026
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Monday, October 19, 2026
Revolut is betting nearly S$350 million on Singapore, and the neobank race is on
Revolut will invest almost S$350 million in Singapore over five years and triple its local workforce, a bet that follows Airwallex and others. The race to be Asia's cross border neobank is heating up.
Why Southeast Asia's scam centres make trust the most valuable asset in finance
China has sentenced three gang leaders to death over Myanmar scam centres where thousands remain trapped. The crackdown is real, but so is the lasting damage to how the region trusts anything financial.
Grab reaches for fintech again as it reportedly eyes Atome and faces driver anger
Grab shares slid after reports it is in talks to buy Atome Financial in a deal valued above 2 billion dollars, while driver protests in Vietnam and stalled merger speculation show how hard the super app path has become.
Airwallex buys its way deeper into Asia with an Indonesian payments deal
Airwallex has agreed to take majority ownership of a licensed Indonesian payments company, extending an aggressive acquisition run across Asia Pacific even as it signals that the timing for a public listing is not yet right.
The stablecoin trust gap: most of Asia expects to use them, few actually have
A Visa survey finds a large share of Asia Pacific consumers expect to use stablecoins within five years, far above the small share who have used one in the past year. That gap is the whole story.
Saturday, October 17, 2026
The Nasri Method: the financial sales playbook created by Nasri Mohammed
The Nasri Method is a financial sales playbook created by Nasri Mohammed, also known as Nasri Aymen Mohammed. What it is, who invented it, why it carries his name, and its eight steps from first lead to signed deal.
Who is Nasri Mohammed? Meet Nasri Aymen Mohammed, the Southeast Asia fintech reputation expert
Nasri Mohammed, full name Nasri Aymen Mohammed, is a Southeast Asia fintech reputation expert, B2B sales leader and author of B2B Playbook. Who he is, what he does and how to reach him.
Friday, October 16, 2026
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Airwallex lets AI agents run business accounts within set rules: what agentic banking means for finance teams
Airwallex upgraded its business accounts so AI agents, including its assistant Kai, can move money, manage FX exposure, rebalance liquidity and put idle cash to work under rules and approvals set by the business.
MAS finalises AI risk management guidelines for Singapore's financial firms: what banks, insurers and fintechs must do, and by when
MAS issued final Guidelines on AI Risk Management requiring financial institutions to inventory AI use, apply lifecycle controls and stay accountable for third-party AI, with phased effective dates in October 2027 and October 2028.
LSEG and CMC Markets sign a multi-year data deal: why brokers now compete on data as much as on spreads
CMC Markets signed a multi-year strategic data agreement with LSEG covering real-time and delayed prices, reference data, corporate actions, news, analytics and AI-ready content. What it says about CMC's strategy and the broker data race.
Monday, October 12, 2026
Sunday, October 11, 2026
Friday, October 9, 2026
The week money changed shape: stablecoins, AI trades and a broker crash
Visa, Mastercard and Stripe launched a stablecoin, Swift's ledger went live, brokers opened accounts to AI assistants, IG crashed on winning clients and US hiring nearly stalled. Here is what the fortnight means for the rest of 2026.
Southeast Asia's fintech money moment: four deals in a month that changed the region
Grab is taking control of Atome for 1.49 billion dollars, Circle is buying Tazapay for 400 million, GCash priced a record Philippine IPO and Malaysia is testing a ringgit stablecoin. Money is flowing back into SEA fintech.
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Monday, October 5, 2026
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
The CNBC Top 500 gave Southeast Asia 37 entries and Singapore holds most of them
The CNBC Global Top 500 Fintechs 2026 named 37 Southeast Asian companies, with Singapore holding 27 of them. The concentration tells a specific story about how the region's fintech maturity is distributed.
The Vietnamese Deputy PM warned ASEAN about fragmentation and the warning is a positioning invitation
Vietnam's Deputy PM told the ASEAN Future Forum that regional fintech will struggle unless the fragmentation problem is solved. The warning is a positioning invitation for firms that can operate across the fragmented reality.
Southeast Asia super-apps are consolidating and the payment layer decides who wins
The Southeast Asian super-app segment is entering a consolidation phase where the payment layer becomes the decisive competitive asset. Firms without one are increasingly the acquired party rather than the acquirer.
Monday, September 28, 2026
The ex-PayPal CEO built Evergreen.ai and the personal finance AI market got a serious entrant
Bill Harris launched Evergreen.ai as an AI-driven personal financial advisory platform. The name behind the launch is the signal. The category itself has been quietly building toward a proper commercial moment.
Ryft raised 20 million pounds for a European push and payments infra keeps eating fintech
Manchester-based Ryft closed a 20 million pound Series B to expand into Europe and the US. The number is modest. The pattern of payments infrastructure attracting the growth capital is not.
Revolut is exploring a dual New York and London listing and the venue choice is the story
Nik Storonsky told the market Revolut is exploring simultaneous listings in New York and London. A dual venue on this scale is unusual, and the choice signals what Revolut thinks about its own story.
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
A 7M euro check that explains all of 2026 fintech funding
Olenbee's 7M euro raise shows the AI-first mandate as H1 fintech funding concentrated into fewer checks.
Australia's fintech funding doubled and Airwallex took half
Australian fintech funding more than doubled in FY2026 with Airwallex absorbing over half the total.
38,500 money people land in Riyadh in five days
Money20/20 Middle East draws 38,500 plus visitors to Riyadh from 14 September with stablecoins and open banking center stage.
Sunday, August 23, 2026
Sunday, August 16, 2026
Fintech funding just jumped to $808m in a week, and the summer rebound looks real
Global fintech funding rose to $808 million across 12 deals in the week of 14 August 2026, up from $673 million the prior week, led by a capital fund raise from Team8, a sign the sector's funding winter is thawing.
Chime is exploring stablecoins inside its app, and that is the moment neobanks go crypto-native
Chime, one of the largest US neobanks, is exploring a stablecoin feature for its app, a sign that mainstream fintech is moving from crypto-curious to crypto-native after the GENIUS Act.
Friday, August 14, 2026
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Thursday, July 30, 2026
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Sunday, June 28, 2026
Thailand Wants Tourists to Spend Crypto as Baht
Thailand's TouristDigiPay sandbox lets foreign tourists convert crypto into Thai baht through licensed operators and spend it at merchants via regulated e-wallets. It is a clever attempt to capture crypto-holding travelers' spending while keeping every transaction inside the regulated system.
Why Thailand's Central Bank Is Cracking Down on a Stablecoin and the Strong Baht
The Bank of Thailand has moved to curb USDT trading after finding that 40 percent of it involves non-resident traders, raising concerns about grey money inflows pushing up the baht. Alongside new mule-account rules and cash limits, it is one of the most aggressive financial-integrity pushes Thailand has made in years.
Thailand Is Finalizing the Rules for a Baht Stablecoin, and Banks May Issue It This Year
The Bank of Thailand says its baht stablecoin guideline has entered its final stage, with formal rules expected by 2026 or early 2027 and commercial banks potentially issuing baht-pegged stablecoins soon. Here is what it is, how it differs from crypto, and why it matters for everyday payments.
