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How alternative data lending is reaching Southeast Asia's unscored MSMEs

The challenge in micro-lending is that small business data does not fit into standard banking templates.

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How alternative data lending is reaching Southeast Asia's unscored MSMEs

The challenge in micro-lending is that small business data does not fit into standard banking templates.

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Asia is leading payments modernisation and banks can't afford to fall behind

By partnering with fintechs, banks can combine regulatory strength with innovation, new use cases, and customer-centric solutions.

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Investing in an inefficient market

In Indonesia, price manipulation remains common, regulatory enforcement requires improvement, and liquidity is thin.

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Platinum cards, paper-thin compliance?

Retail platforms are going upscale, but their compliance frameworks aren’t.

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Energy price volatility highlights structural gaps for managing FX risk in APAC

The Japanese yen, Korean won, and Indian rupee can experience sensitivity to energy price shifts and US dollar strength.

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Asia’s electronic markets reach an inflection point of transformation

Across volatility, multi-asset trading, and digital assets, technology is increasingly viewed as essential to navigating complexity.

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Tokenisation in the Philippines: The consumer is ready, but is the infrastructure?

Being token-ready involves much more than switching on wallet acceptance.

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Asian firms need to get ready for digital assets and currencies

Whether it’s for retail or corporate customers, what banks can offer is not simply execution but preparation.

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AI can build your plan, but can it hold you to it?

AI can produce a data-rich financial plan. The question is whether you will be sticking to that plan when markets misbehave.

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Built to last: How Japan is approaching the cross-border payments challenge

Japan is extending it until the reliability it has delivered domestically is matched by when a payment leaves borders.

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Asia’s 20% advantage: The simplification strategy rewriting banking from Singapore to Shanghai

Agentic AI combined with radical simplification can slash operational costs.

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Perth is emerging as an unlikely testbed for the future of global finance

Australia brings a sophisticated finance system, strong regulators, and high-quality education.

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Buy now, worry later: The hidden cost of BNPL

BNPL providers should adopt ‘affordability-by-design’ rather than ‘affordability-after-default.’

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Why most banks are struggling with AI, and what the smart ones are doing differently

Instead of running in parallel to the business, it is part of how it operates.

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Data, AI, and trust: The next era of financial crime prevention

Data underpins effective financial crime defence.

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From behavioural change to scalable inclusion: Cross-border payments in APAC

The goal is not just faster transfers, but a seamless, inclusive financial ecosystem.

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Device governance is not an IT problem. For SEA's financial sector, it is a boardroom one

With fintech being a targeted industry, no vulnerability can be left exposed.

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