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Webinar: The Deepfake Threat And What APAC Financial Institutions Are Doing About It

Generative AI is making fraud more convincing and easier to scale. Reports of Gen AI-enabled scams rose 456% between Ma... Read more

CIMB And China CITIC Bank To Boost China-ASEAN Banking Links

CIMB has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with China CITIC Bank to improve financial connectivity between China and the ... Read more

Agentic Commerce And The Trust Problem Nobody Has Solved

AI is getting better at helping us shop. The next step is much bigger: making payments on our behalf. That sounds conve... Read more

Animoca Brands And HKSTP To Host Demo Day For Agentic AI Startups

Animoca Brands and the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) are co-hosting a demo day for local a... Read more

Hong Kong Tightens Investment Account Rules For Mainland Chinese Clients

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has issued guidelines for banks to manage the onboarding and ongoing monitoring... Read more

HKMA Sets Up Tokenised Bond Expert Group To Support Market Development

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has established a Tokenised Bond Expert Group to drive further adoption and sca... Read more

ZA Bank And Industrial Bank Launch Southbound Wealth Scheme

ZA Bank has partnered with Industrial Bank to launch its Cross-boundary Wealth Management Connect Southbound Scheme ser... Read more

TenPay Global Enables Remittances To China For Non-Chinese Users

Tencent‘s cross-border payment platform, TenPay Global, has launched a remittance service tailored for non-Chinese ci... Read more

XTransfer And Societe Generale Partner To Enhance Trade Settlement Infrastructure

XTransfer has partnered with European bank Societe Generale to develop cross-border payment and currency settlement sol... Read more

XTransfer And BBVA Partner On Cross-Border Payments In Latin America And Europe

XTransfer has signed a MoU with global financial group BBVA to deepen cross-border payment infrastructure across Latin ... Read more

Hong Kong Banks Urged To Upgrade Defenses For AI-Driven Cyberattacks

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has reminded authorised institutions to review their cyber defenses against fro... Read more

Manulife And Alibaba Cloud To Establish AI Hub For Insurance In Hong Kong

Manulife has partnered with Alibaba Cloud to establish a joint AI hub in Hong Kong. The collaboration will focus on dev... Read more

RedotPay Connect Enables Merchants To Accept Stablecoins And Settle In Fiat

RedotPay has launched its first B2B product, RedotPay Connect, allowing enterprise merchants to accept stablecoin payme... Read more

HKMA Shares Strategic Priorities For 2026, Outlining Fintech, Infrastructure Modernization Efforts

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has released its annual report, reviewing trends and key events in monetary and... Read more

Hong Kong Records Highest Fraud Loss In Asia Despite Declining Fraudulent Activity

Despite recording low and decreasing fraud rates, Hong Kong is experiencing disproportionately high digital fraud losse... Read more