Scam offenders in Singapore will face caning from 30 December 2025 as tougher criminal penalties take effect. The changes are ...

Bhutan commits 10,000 bitcoin to develop Gelephu Mindfulness City, using digital assets to boost economic diversification and ...

Standard Chartered has rolled out tokenised SGD and USD deposits in Singapore, with Ant International as the first client.

Singapore’s fintech story has always been about speed, but 2025 feels different. This is the year when years of policy work and infrastructure building move from pilot to production. Digital rails, ...

Crypto.com expands its Singapore fiat infrastructure by adding DBS as a banking partner for SGD and USD transfers.

MetaComp, a licensed provider of cross-border foreign exchange and digital asset infrastructure based in Singapore and regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), has announced a strategic ...

Payment trends in Asia are changing how businesses and people transact — from the digital-first economies of China and Singapore to the quickly changing markets of Indonesia and Vietnam. This shift is ...

StraitsX has raised US$10 million from cross-border payments provider UQPAY to accelerate its Asia expansion and strengthen stablecoin-based payment connectivity. The investment, alongside continued ...

Payments platform EBANX is stepping up its push into emerging markets by rolling out stablecoin payments, launching AI-powered tools and expanding to the Philippines. The company said merchants will ...

XWeave, a startup developing infrastructure for stablecoin-based cross-border payments, has raised US$3 million in seed funding. The round was led by Jungle Ventures through its First Cheque@Jungle ...

Ant International has teamed up with Google to help shape a new way for AI agents to make payments safely, a step that could speed up the growth of autonomous commerce. The Agent Payments Protocol ...

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) did not place the now-collapsed crypto exchange FTX on its Investor Alert List as it had no evidence that the latter was soliciting Singapore users ...