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JCB Rolls Out Contactless Transit Payments Across Taipei Metro

JCB has rolled out contactless payment acceptance on the Taipei Metro. The integration allows cardholders to tap physic... Read more

Ping An Bank Targets Young Customers With AI Compute Card Launch

Ping An Bank has partnered with China UnionPay and Tencent Cloud to launch a debit card that rewards users with AI comp... Read more

Hong Kong And Türkiye Central Banks Establish Fintech Cooperation Framework

Hong Kong and Türkiye have established a formal framework to collaborate on financial innovation. Signing a MoU, the H... Read more

LexisNexis Risk Solutions And Promon Partner To Strengthen Mobile Fraud Prevention

LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Promon announced a strategic alliance to strengthen fraud prevention in mobile apps globa... Read more

Have Malaysias Digital Banks Delivered On Financial Inclusion? | Hildah Hamzah, Deputy CEO, GXBank

87% of GXBank’s small-business borrowers had never held a loan before. Deputy CEO Hildah Hamzah explains how the bank... Read more

SBI Holdings To Acquire Bitbank In US$289M Crypto Expansion

SBI Holdings has agreed to acquire Japanese crypto exchange Bitbank in a deal valued at approximately US$289 million, w... Read more

4 Ways Hong Kong Banks Fight Financial Crime Using AI, According To HKMA

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) wants banks to use AI in financial crime as a way to counter cyberattacks and s... Read more

Ripple Launches RLUSD Stablecoin In Japan Through SBI Group

Ripple has launched its US dollar-denominated stablecoin, Ripple USD, in the Japanese market. The expansion follows reg... Read more

SBI And Startale Launch Trust Bank-Backed Yen Stablecoin JPYSC In Japan

SBI Group has introduced its trust based stablecoin JPYSC in partnership with Singapore-based fintech company Startale ... Read more

Visa Study: Digital Wallets Lead Greater Bay Area Payment Preferences

Visa has released its latest Consumer Payment Attitudes Study, highlighting how payment seamlessness is linked to a shi... Read more

European And South Korean Banks Form Project Pangea For FX Settlement

Chainlink, South Korean infrastructure provider FairSquareLab, the Unified Korea Alliance (UniKA), and European stablec... Read more

Reap Adds Circles USYC To Enable Yield On Corporate Treasury Balances

Reap has integrated Circle‘s tokenised money market fund, USYC, into its corporate spend platform. The move allows gl... Read more

Tencent Tests WeChat AI Assistant To Compete In China Super App Race

Tencent has started testing a new AI assistant named Xiaowei for its WeChat platform, as reported by Bloomberg. The sup... Read more

WeLab Is Shopping For Banks In Southeast Asia, Malaysia Captures Its Eyes

WeLab is on the lookout for banks to buy in Southeast Asia. WeLab Southeast Asia expansion plans could possibly involve... Read more

Payment Asia Integrates PayMe By HSBC For Hong Kong Merchants

Payment Asia is integrating with PayMe by HSBC to allow its merchant network to accept payments directly from the digit... Read more