Interviews Apr 09 MUFG builds its Asia transaction banking franchise on an integrated regional platform Belinda Han, managing director and head of transaction banking Asia Pacific, MUFG Bank, discusses how the bank is growing its transaction banking fran... 1310
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 28 CFIT positions the UK as a model of prudence in digital-money regulation CFIT’s Nicole Sandler outlines the UK’s stability-first stablecoin approach, global divergence in reserve and redemption models, and what banks mu... 2171
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 24 How UOB is positioning for digital assets at scale Lee Zhu Kuang, managing director and group head of UOB’s Innovation Group, outlines how the bank is preparing for tokenised assets and emerging digi... 3037
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 19 Cobo sharpens custody and wallet governance for institutional tokenisation Custody becomes the governance backbone of institutional tokenisation as Lily King explains Asia’s diverging regulatory models and rising utility-dr... 2639
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 18 TerraPay’s Ani Sane discusses building compliant and interoperable cross-border payment networks Ani Sane, co-founder and chief business officer of TerraPay, outlines how the company is extending its digital payments infrastructure to connect bank... 2101
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 17 Paymentology discusses issuer processing for an AI and digital asset-driven financial system Jeff Parker, CEO of Paymentology, explains how issuer processing is being rebuilt for an AI-enabled, tokenised and real-time financial ecosystem as in... 1168
Singapore Fintech Festival Nov 17 JP Morgan builds unified payments backbone for digital and fintech platforms across the globe JP Morgan is strengthening its global payments infrastructure to support digital platforms, fintechs and corporates as Asia’s real-time and embedded... 2728
TABLive Jul 03 BNCTL sharpens national mandate and regional focus as Timor-Leste prepares for ASEAN integration As Timor-Leste looks to join ASEAN in October 2025, BNCTL under its new CEO, Marcelo da Cruz Carvalho, outlines its strategic transformation to suppor... 19941
Apr 02 HSBC Live+ recognised as best cash back credit card in Asia Pacific HSBC Singapore’s Live+ credit card, which was recognised as the Best Cash Back Card in Asia Pacific, stands out for its lifestyle benefits, high cas... 3392
Interviews Nov 20 StraitsX partners with Alipay+ and Grab to drive stablecoin payment adoption Liu Tianwei, co-founder and chief executive officer of StraitsX, and Kenny Chan, head of StraitsX, discuss how the company is advancing stablecoin ado... 7334
Interviews Nov 13 HSBC and Dandelion partnership elevates speed, transparency and cost-efficiency in cross-border payments In an interview at the Singapore Fintech Festival 2024, HSBC’s Nadeesha Senaratne and Dandelion’s Deepan Dagur, discussed their partnership’s ro... 19232
Interviews Jul 02 Cake Vietnam digital bank aims for profitability by end 2024 Leveraging advanced AI, the bank aims to be among the top 5% of profitable digital-only banks globally by the end of 2024, transforming digital bankin... 8848
Sponsored content May 01 Mobile payments to overtake cards by 2024 The COVID pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital transactions and mobile payments, including the use of digital cards. With enhanced securit... 29665
Apr 21 Big tech credit expected to reach $1 trillion by 2023 Digital and incumbent banks face growing threats from big tech and payment platforms that are evolving into full-scale financial services players. La... 12897
interviews Jan 28 Ambitions of MAS’ first licensed crypto payments player Eric Barbier, founder and CEO, TripleA, speaks with Emmanuel Daniel, founder, about receiving the first crypto payments licence from the Monetary Auth... 17075
Research Note Dec 22 OPay secured 22% share of Nigerian e-wallet market in last 3 years Mobile-based payment platform OPay has grown exponentially since its launch in 2018, penetrating the unbanked and underbanked population in Nigeria. I... 38239
Research Note Oct 28 Mobile wallets will reach 2.6 billion users in Asia Pacific by 2025 Global mobile phone users are projected to reach 4.8 billion by 2025, compared with 2.8 billion users in 2020. Businesses are tapping into this vast m... 31450
Opinion May 25 ITM’s Thakkar: “India’s fintech industry to reach $160 billion by 2025” The growth in financial services has been remarkable over the past few years in India and the financial sector has witnessed a transformation with the... 12551
Research Note Apr 09 Indonesia e-wallet transaction to reach $18.5 billion in 2021 amid fierce competition As the number of e-wallet players in Indonesia surges amid the vast market opportunities, bigger players have begun extending the competition beyond p... 54783
Research Note Mar 31 BNPL funding grew 93% CAGR as volumes, users and revenues surged in 2020 The rapid transformation of domestic and cross-border payments brings new opportunities and challenges for financial institutions. Industry experts sh... 19136
Current Account Mar 15 LINE BK tops two million users in Thailand LINE BK, the first social banking platform in Thailand, has exceeded two million users within four months from its launch in October 2020. LINE BK reg... 10261
Current Account Mar 10 Global Payments Report: Digital wallets and BNPL drive ecommerce payments The use of digital wallets has accelerated amid the pandemic and exceeded cash-based transactions for in-store payments for the first time, according ... 12412
Research Note Nov 25 Big tech disruptors find dividends of financial services come at a price Tech giants, which make up some of the world’s largest companies, are muscling into traditional banking spaces. But whether they want to crush the t... 9796
Research Note Aug 19 How Wirecard’s exit may impact the future of payment processing in Asia The German fintech’s dramatic collapse is likely to reshape the payment processing landscape as market rewards players leading innovation and value ... 17251
Aug 16 Twitter and Square investor Gregg Kidd: “Identity as a public good, but who is going to own it?” Greg Kidd, the serial startup investor who helped found Square and Twitter and is currently investor in GlobaliD, opens up in this wide-ranging and op... 12992
News Analysis Jul 04 Facebook's Libra will rival US monetary system cites US House Financial Services Committee The US House of Representatives’ Financial Services Committee has called for a halt to Facebook's cryptocurrency-based digital wallet citing seriou... 16558
Trendwatch Jun 27 The race to build super-apps, platforms and communities As fintechs and big technology players are increasingly developing their platforms and apps, the financial services industry is in serious need of dev... 7489
Research Note Jun 23 Total e-wallet size in Indonesia likely to hit $15 billion by 2020 Indonesia is seeing exponential growth in mobile payments spurred by a robust fintech landscape, though usage remains uneven and limited... 23275
Opinion May 20 globaliD's Kidd on future exchange society: The what, the who, and the why Greg Kidd, co-founder and CEO of globalID, postulates a few possible paths for the future exchange society. Greg Kidd will be a speaker at the Futur... 8403
Interviews Jan 09 Grab grows financial inclusion and its payments impact across Southeast Asia Grab’s key objectives going forward include driving increased acceptance of e-wallets, adding more big brand names to the rewards programme, and dev... 26635
Interviews Oct 10 Mckinsey’s Bruno and Chaudhuri: “ Fintechs don’t see payments as a means of profitability, they see payments as a source of data” Mckinsey’s Bruno and Chaudhuri highlighted the emergence of alternative payment instruments in especially in markets of ASEAN & China and how fintec... 10403
Opinion Sep 27 Card service tax will drive down Malaysia’s credit cards-in-force in 2019-2020 ... 10078
Research Note Jun 29 What does it take to build a successful mobile wallet – more than cool technology ... 8256
Interviews Nov 29 A challenging time for Earthport as it tries to scale Newly appointed chief commercial officer at Earthport Mike Steinharter discussed how the company aims to expand globally and into new segments to incr... 7202
