decentralised finance (DeFi)
HitPay offers stablecoin payments acceptance to small and medium businesses
HitPay offers stablecoin payments acceptance to small and medium businesses
Merchants are settled in fiat and reconciled in HitPay.
MAS teams up with BIS, Swiss and France central banks to test wholesale CBDCs
Project Mariana used DeFi technology concepts on a public blockchain.
MAS to explore digital assets use cases with Project Guardian
The first pilot sees DBS, JP Morgan, and Marketnode explore lending on a public blockchain.
Singapore bans promotion of cryptocurrency trading in public
The new guidelines instruct against marketing DPT services in public areas.
What’s in store for the decentralised crypto industry with China’s growing antagonism?
China's stance may be concerning today, but won't affect the global industry in the long run.
ASEAN regulators ramp up blockchain adoption as tech expands beyond crypto: analysts
More banks and institutions are exploring its use for payments and cross-border transfers.
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The payment terminal was never the destination; for Payment Asia, it was always the starting point.
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Are Asia’s digital banks prepared for the stablecoin era?
Why APAC is building home-currency stablecoins
Why Southeast Asian wealth managers must design the business before buying the technology
Why trust in Asian banking increasingly gets built off the record
Hong Kong cleared stablecoins for take-off. Getting them to work across Asia is the hard part
The financing challenge behind Asia’s wealth transfer
Banks need to rethink identity governance for AI agents
From stablecoins to sovereignty: The rise of trust-based digital dollar systems
Indonesia’s banks need faster fraud decisions as digital payments grow
China’s leasing giants are growing up — and Asia’s banks can’t look away