Singaporean bank OCBC’s app, enabled by Visa Direct, has become the first mobile banking app in Asia-Pacific to let customers ...

After years-long effort at bolstering Singapore’s fintech prowess, its fintech industry has advanced to a new phase of growth ...

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Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is driving changes in jobs and skills across financial institutions (Fis) and fintechs in Singapore, impacting all tech roles in varying degrees, a new ...

Singapore-based lender OCBC has launched a pay-to-wallet service via its mobile banking app that enables customers to transfer funds to digital wallets in China without incurring transfer fees.

Ant International, a global digital payment and financial technology provider headquartered in Singapore, is ramping up efforts to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to enhance and ...

Bajaj Finance has raised US$1 billion to help improve and expand access to climate finance for electric vehicles (EVs) and energy-efficient consumer goods (EECGs), as well as support women-owned micro ...

Visa has collaborated with QR payment providers to allow consumers to use their digital wallets to scan and pay at point-of-sale QR when they travel abroad. The pilot programme will begin in Singapore ...

Muzinich & Co., a global corporate credit specialist based in New York City, has appointed Sashi Nambiar as head of financial intermediaries and wealth for Asia as it continues its expansion in the ...

Much of the discussion about the Sino-American rivalry has framed China’s rise as the primary catalyst for US policy shifts. But the conflict can also be traced back to a democratic deficit in ...

Investment up tenfold in decade, with AI, quantum computing offering huge potential ...

One of Singapore’s largest lenders, OCBC, has deployed a next-generation blockchain-based conditional payments solution on ...