The Brazilian-founded payments giant EBANX is planting its APAC flag in Singapore — now home to its Chief Product Officer and 25 senior specialists, as it rides a wave of record growth across Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
Singapore-based multi-family office WRISE Group has announced a strategic partnership with Thailand’s IFCG Public Company Limited, in a move aimed at expanding institutional-grade wealth management solutions for high-net-worth (HNW) and mass affluent investors in the Thai market.
Across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, startups secured billions in funding this December. Explore the top deals driving growth in AI, fintech, healthcare, robotics, and sustainable energy as we’re moving towards 2026.
New data suggests digital assets are becoming an increasingly established, though still selective, component of wealth management across Asia.
The global bank Citi is making a major push, bolstering its foreign exchange (FX) business across Asia with a fresh wave of senior hires and renewed focus on corporate and institutional clients.
A new gold fund backed by physical bullion and vaulted in Singapore is set to redefine access to precious-metal investments, offering retail investors institutional-grade gold exposure with unprecedented ease.
With the new guidelines proposal, MAS is clearly signaling that Singapore aims to be one of the global leaders in safe, responsible AI adoption within financial services, encouraging innovation, but not at the expense of risk.
The new UK/Singapore study highlights a widening “adoption gap” between what tokenisation could enable and what the buy-side is realistically prepared to implement today.
Mastercard has announced a major push: by 2030, it aims to make online shopping payments in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region both password-free and number-free.
As quantum computing moves closer to practical reality, the global cybersecurity community is racing to prepare for a new era of cryptographic risk. At the Singapore FinTech Festival 2025, ST Engineering joined this effort, unveiling new quantum-safe solutions designed to help financial institutions and critical infrastructure operators strengthen their defences before quantum threats emerge.
The new Franklin Onchain U.S. Dollar Short‑Term Money Market Fund allows investors in Singapore to participate with a minimum investment of just $20, enabled by fractional ownership on a blockchain-based platform.
The new partnerships with prominent Asian financial institutions, including Bank of Singapore and Hong Leong Bank (HLB), underscore Arta Finance ambition to bring institutional-grade AI-driven wealth-management capabilities to the global market.
Major fintech firms continue to accelerate their AI initiatives. Today, several AI-related deals were announced, involving Tabby, Revolut, Klarna, Singlife and Salesforce.
HSBC launches its 24/7 Tokenised Deposit Service in Singapore, extending its blockchain-based banking platform beyond Hong Kong to enable instant cross-border settlements and modernise treasury management at scale.
Among the global crypto enthusiasts, Singapore and UAE stand out with their high cryptocurrency ownership, robust search activity and rapid adoption growth.
Mobile wallets are now the payment method of choice across Southeast Asia, with 83% of Indonesian shoppers and 80% of Malaysians opting for them when making international purchases.
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