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The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the Philippines’ central bank, has set a July 1 deadline for the full adoption of the country’s unified QR code standard for secure payments.
24 Mar 2023

Over the course of several months, the board of editors at The Asset has taken note of these trends in Asia and has been carefully examining and understanding the various digital finance activities taking place in the region. As in previous years we are pleased to highlight this year’s The Asset Triple A Digital Awards winners who have excelled against a highly competitive and challenging market backdrop.
24 Mar 2023

Fund managers and asset service providers in Asia are in a better position to automate their processes than their Western counterparts, a new report finds.
23 Mar 2023

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has increased the level of threats in the global cyber landscape, sparking a flood of ideologically driven “hacktivism” that, driven by both sides of the conflict, has substantially put at risk the financial services sector, particularly for institutions in countries that Russia considers hostile, according to a recent report
22 Mar 2023

Standard Chartered has launched working capital and lending capability on its Straight2Bank (S2B) online platform for businesses to manage their transaction banking needs.
22 Mar 2023

Blackstone’s US$70 billion real estate income trust (BREIT) is now trading on LODASMarkets.com, a Kansas-based online marketplace for buying and selling alternative and real estate investments.
22 Mar 2023

Solution allows Thai portfolio manager to deliver most up-to-date capabilities, better cost control
21 Mar 2023

Digital platform companies could deploy the latest wave of artificial intelligence much more responsibly than they have so far, and two current court cases serve as warnings to those pursuing socially destructive business models. But we also need concerted public-policy action to fix the industry
16 Mar 2023

Asian expansion comes as markets experience corporate, leisure travel rebound
15 Mar 2023

Although Silicon Valley Bank itself was not systemically important to the US financial system, it could signal more widespread problems that are only just coming into view. Many other banks also have large portfolios of long-dated securities and would incur heavy losses if sold before maturity
15 Mar 2023

Agros, an agritech start-up based in Singapore, has raised US$2.7 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by Gaia Impact Fund and Schneider Electric Energy Access Asia.
14 Mar 2023

Meyer Frucher, a former NASDAQ vice-chair, has over 25 years of stock exchange experience
14 Mar 2023

China was supposed to be the main beneficiary of a shift away from the dollar by countries fearing its "weaponization" by US authorities. So why isn't diversification toward the renminbi visible in data on foreign reserves and international payments?
14 Mar 2023