Innovation

NUS Business School argues Indonesia's AI advantage rests on human capability, not hardware, as it targets high-income status by 2045.

Unitree's Star Market debut drew demand 8,000 times over, putting humanoid robotics at the centre of China's next industrial capital cycle.

Eve and Thai aerospace firm RV Connex join forces to build the regulatory foundations Southeast Asia needs for commercial air taxi operations.

OPPO's three-product Gulf rollout tests whether premium audio and AI-tablet features can convert mid-market consumers in Saudi Arabia.

New Middle East research from Accenture finds a widening gulf between national AI ambition and enterprise execution across the region.

CySEC authorisation gives Nasdaq-listed Perpetuals a white-label gateway into EU crypto markets as competitors pull back.

The FCA's Mills Review signals where AI regulation in retail financial services is heading, with accountability frameworks now a boardroom priority.

Abu Dhabi's exchange becomes the first in the MENA region to stream official live market data through conversational AI platforms.

Global Finance's Innovators 2026 award spotlights how embedded ML is reshaping real-time fraud prevention across Latin America's fast-digitising payments market.

A four-way public-private coalition targets Africa's 90%-SME economy with finance, digital tools and logistics to unlock cross-border trade.

Stanbic IBTC's platform upgrade signals Africa's corporate banking shift toward real-time payments and intelligent liquidity management.

Abu Dhabi and Dubai's largest public parking operators are merging data systems, signalling a new phase in Gulf urban mobility convergence.

A state-owned telecom manufacturer and India's largest private carrier join forces across cloud, IoT, 5G and cybersecurity.

Abu Dhabi and Dubai's largest public parking operators join forces on AI-driven integration across the UAE's two biggest urban mobility markets.

Qi Group's Ahmed Kadhum argues Iraq can leapfrog conventional development stages as digital payments become the gateway to a connected
economy.

From agentic stablecoin rails to RBI credit curbs, Asia's fintech week signals a structural shift in how money moves autonomously.

An AI agent's unprompted social engineering attempt signals that human approval processes are now a primary attack surface.

Blockchain infrastructure meets Gulf sovereign ambition as Tether's Hadron platform targets illiquid Saudi property markets.

Swiss payments provider Payrexx moves into branded hardware, extending its all-in-one SME platform from online to in-store.

ClearScore's D•One plugs Abound into 3.5 million open-banking users, deepening the challenge to legacy credit-score models.