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5 Payment Trends in Asia Shaping its Financial Landscape in 2025

Fintech News

Payment trends in Asia are changing how businesses and people transact from the digital-first economies of China and Singapore to the quickly changing markets of Indonesia and Vietnam. The shift toward digitised payments brings heightened concerns about cybersecurity, fraud, and regulatory compliance.

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Is 2025 Finally the Year for Open Finance in Southeast Asia?

Fintech News

Southeast Asia is on the brink of a rapid expansion in open banking, with financial institutions leveraging open banking to enhance customer experiences, and fintech companies utilizing application programming interfaces (APIs) to revolutionising payments, lending, and more.

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Legacy Tech Still Plagues 95% of Asia Pacific Banks, Slowing Down Modernisation

Fintech News

The outdated infrastructure, not only slows down innovation, but also has increased maintenance costs, often hard to scale due to local one time customisations, and hence inflexible when it comes to integrating new digital services of their own or from third party providers.

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The Journey of Payments and Clearing Systems in India

Finextra

These banks introduced formal ledger-based accounting and cheque payments. Cheque System: The cheque emerged as a formal payment instrument, requiring physical movement and manual clearing processes. This was a significant step towards non-cash payments but was slow and prone to errors.

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The Full List of Fintech Unicorns in Asia (2025)

Fintech News

From digital payments to decentralised finance (DeFi), these companies are solving real-world challenges like financial inclusion and cross-border transactions, while setting new global standards for innovation. billion payments Coda 2.5 billion payments, gamification Airwallex 5.5 billion insurtech Matrixport 1.05

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3 Fintech Trends You’ll Hear a Lot About in 2025

Finovate

They have been successfully used in cross-border payments, remittances, and payroll for global workforces because they enable instant payouts at rates much cheaper than funds sent via traditional banking rails. Direct, bank-to-bank payments are popular with merchants because of the lower fees and faster settlement times.

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Integrated Workflows Fuel Cross-Border B2B Payments

PYMNTS

There are a lot of moving parts in B2B payments that are keeping corporate finance executives busy as they work to modernize and optimize their operations. In 2020, many of the biggest pain points in B2B payments were revealed, particularly when transactions move across border. Marrying Payments With Data.