Asia-Pacific

Uzbekistan is emerging as a serious fintech market, driven by its young population, local payments infrastructure, and evolving regulation.

Volt's ASIC licence unifies real-time A2A payments under direct regulatory authority across three of the world's most advanced payment markets.

Tacta's sensor-glove facility in Singapore aims to transfer human dexterity to robotic hands, targeting electronics and auto manufacturing.

As AI clusters scale to thousands of accelerators, KAYTUS brings OEM-grade repair to customer sites, targeting 12-hour node recovery.

TBC UZ's 1.2 million-card Salom product adds a domestic rails partner, targeting one million new cards in Central Asia's fast-digitalising

Solera's CATARC tie-up positions Western vehicle-lifecycle software as the compliance backbone for Chinese EV brands entering overseas markets.

The Chinese facility-management integrator's five-country expansion signals where semiconductor and optoelectronic capex is flowing.

Devexperts' trading platform is now one of only two Bappebti-authorised systems, opening a path into Indonesia's fast-growing digital asset sector.

Korea's largest hypermarket is sourcing product ideas from credit card spending patterns, blurring the line between fintech and retail.

A Nasdaq-listed Chinese EV maker has quietly launched an AI infrastructure unit, testing whether micro-cap pivots can bridge mobility and compute.

A US defence-tech firm will power Seoul's first indigenously built destroyer class, deepening allied naval-industrial integration in the Indo-Pacific.

The Singapore-listed robotics-and-cleaning group deepens its financial-sector footprint with a three-year integrated services deal.

A 45,000-person Visa study finds APAC consumers will accept 24-hour transfer delays to beat AI-enabled deepfake scams.

The salon software firm's integration push signals vertical SaaS consolidation reaching the fragmented beauty and wellness market.

Follow a payment from Manchester to Lagos to see where the stablecoin removes the correspondent banks, what it costs, and why the last mile is still hard.

What a stablecoin is, what backs the dollar, why $300bn now sits in them, and how the US, EU and UK rules written in the last two years change the picture.

A tokenised deposit is a bank's own money on a shared ledger. Here is how it differs from a stablecoin, who has one live, and why the two will coexist.

Take one card payment apart: interchange to the issuer, scheme fees to Visa or Mastercard, margin to the acquirer, and why the new rails are aimed at all three.

First Digital chief executive Vincent Chok on bank-issued stablecoins, what Hong Kong's payment rails still need, and how he will judge the next twelve months.

Nodeinfra's entry into SphereNet's validator set positions a compliance-native ledger at the centre of South Korea's regulated digital-money build-out.