Fintech News

APRIL 23, 2024

Nium, a major player in real-time cross-border payments, has announced an expansion of its partnership with Thredd , a global payments processor. The collaboration will focus on issuing virtual cards within the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, aimed at facilitating payments for travel intermediaries such as hotels and airlines.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2020

APAC lawmakers appear to be using them as a guide in creating their own regulations, including in Dubai and South Korea. These systems enable FIs to generate greater insights into consumers’ banking and payment behaviors, Munyuki added, and that data can create more personalized or unique services to help them compete.

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The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Its Agentic API layer will ensure that AI agents can access web services and data sources seamlessly, unlocking new opportunities for interaction and information retrieval. Rooted in the GCC, SemanticPay aims to scale globally, with its team currently having a presence in APAC and Europe.

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Finovate

APRIL 10, 2025

Fiserv has acquired Australia-based PayFac Pinch Payments to strengthen its digital payments offerings and expand its merchant reach across the Asia Pacific region. Payments innovator Fiserv has acquired Australia-based payment facilitator (PayFac) Pinch Payments for an undisclosed amount.

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Fintech Finance

APRIL 8, 2025

DECTA , a leading provider of technical payment solutions, is excited to announce the launch of the DECTA Fintech Fast Track—a program designed to fast-track the journey of innovative fintech companies entering the card issuing and payment acquiring industry. Who Can Apply? ” said Nikita Melnikovs, Board Member at DECTA.

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Fintech News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

With 355 million gamers contributing to an expected US$14 billion market in 2024, LatAm is emerging as a major growth region for global gaming companies, presenting considerable opportunities for Asia-Pacific (APAC) firms, according to Eduardo de Abreu, Vice President of Product at EBANX, a leader in localized payment solutions.

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Fintech News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Fintech funding in APAC recorded a significant decline in H1 2023, dropping from US$6.8 As the fintech sector continues to grow and evolve in APAC, organizers are hosting a number of large-scale events to showcase the region’s latest innovations and fastest-growing players. billion in H2 2022 to US$5.1 billion, the data show.

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Fintech News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Mumbai-based fintech company BriskPe has tied up with Currencycloud , a provider of B2B embedded cross-border solutions, to expand its customers’ payment options. The collaboration is aimed at providing Indian businesses with competitive foreign exchange rates and more efficient payment processes.

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Fintech News

JUNE 11, 2024

Licensed as a Major Payment Institution (MPI) by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), OPAL offers domestic and cross-border payments, payment accounts, and e-money services. What’s more, Currencycloud’s platform is flexible, scalable, and integrates seamlessly with ours to enable a smooth and efficient user experience.

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Fintech Finance

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Nium , the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, today announced a partnership with Ecobank Transnational Incorporated., the leading independent pan-African financial services group, to enable seamless cross-border payments across 35 African markets for more than 32 million customers.

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Fintech Finance

JUNE 10, 2025

Jack Forestell, Visa’s Chief Product and Strategy Officer said , “Combining the strength of our global network with our leadership in payment innovation here in Asia Pacific, we are bringing new products and solutions that will transform commerce and deliver trust and security to AI-enabled payments across the region.”

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Yuno , the world’s leading payment orchestrator, today announces the launch of Payout, a groundbreaking new feature designed to simplify the full spectrum of global payment work streams for merchants. For example, U.S.

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Finextra

JUNE 8, 2025

From Disruption to Integration Circle, the issuer of USDC, has long positioned itself as the “compliant” stablecoin: fully reserved, dollar-backed, regulated in the U.S. Stablecoins are not just payment mechanisms. By becoming a public company, Circle has won trust from banks, payment processors, regulators, and asset managers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

These days, with the emergence of the cloud, open banking and application programming interfaces (APIs, the moniker “as-a-Service” applies to pretty much any business function that is now able to be outsourced to a third party. Technology brings the concept of flexible payments into reality. Flexibility Is Key.

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Fintech News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

To address this, stakeholders including NETS Group and Liquid Group are working on interoperable QR payment solutions that are designed to simplify processes for merchants, Chia said. On the international front, cross-border payments have presented a different set of challenges.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

To that end, Vincent Caldeira, chief technologist for FSI in APAC for Red Hat told PYMNTS, FIs — especially incumbent FIs — are facing rapid changes in payments that demand they modernize payments processing, embedding new functionality along the way. The Need For Standardization In Cross-Border Payment Processing.

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Fintech Finance

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Trulioo , an industry-leading identity platform with proven global coverage for person and business verification, today announced its partnership expansion with Airwallex , a leading global payments and financial platform for modern businesses. That agility is crucial for supporting the company’s continuous, rapid international expansion.

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Fintech News

MAY 7, 2024

FXC Intelligence, a data platform specializing in the cross-border payment and e-commerce sectors, has released its annual selection of the world’s top cross-border payment companies, recognizing the leading publicly traded companies, startups and private companies operating in the space worldwide.

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Fintech News

MAY 9, 2024

In an era dominated by digital innovation, the banking sector is evolving rapidly to meet the modern consumer’s demands for seamless and integrated financial services. This entails moving beyond outdated legacy systems to embrace disruptive technologies such as coreless banking platforms, open APIs, Generative AI, and Machine Learning.

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Fintech News

APRIL 28, 2024

Money20/20 Asia made its debut in Bangkok on April 23, 2024, bringing together key players from across Asia’s financial landscape, including banks, payment providers, startups, retailers, fintech companies, and regulators. Additionally, they can access developer guides on API technology and security protocols.

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 18, 2025

Industry hires Guavapay, a provider of end-to-end payment solutions headquartered in London, UK, appoints Guy Noble as its new CEO for Guavapay UK. PayFuture , the payments technology platform connecting global businesses with emerging markets, has appointed Praful Morar as deputy CEO. This expands a relationship which began in 2014.

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Fintech Finance

JUNE 3, 2025

TerraPay , a global leader in digital cross-border payments, today announced that it has been granted a Class B license by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM). It also empowers TerraPay to deepen its collaboration with local financial institutions and fintechs, offering them access to its robust, interoperable, and API-driven payment infrastructure.

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Fintech Finance

APRIL 24, 2024

Nium , the global leader in real-time cross-border payments, today announced the expansion of its partnership with Thredd , a leading global payments processor, to issue virtual cards in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Download Nium’s latest research on how virtual cards are transforming the travel payments landscape here.

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The company replaces traditional B2B payment methods (e.g. Their system seamlessly integrates with clients’ existing infrastructure to automate the entire payout process, from invoice generation to payment execution. Thitsa Payment Portal is a web-based platform integrated with Mojaloop. ThitsaWorks Pte.

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The Fintech Times

JANUARY 21, 2025

EAZY Financial Services ‘EazyPay’, a Bahraini financial institution specialising in point-of-sale (POS) and online payment gateway acquiring services, has teamed up with Tarabut , the MENA region’s regulated open banking platform. Balint has held senior roles at Afterpay, amaysim, Ola and Optus.

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Fintech News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The conversation delved into the transformation journey of Currencycloud into Visa Cross-Border Solutions , a foreign exchange and cross-border payments solution within Visa, and how it addresses the challenges of cross-border payments in today’s fintech landscape.

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Fintech Finance

JUNE 16, 2025

Mastercard today announced that Asia Pacific banks and fintechs can onboard to its network up to four times faster and streamline the launch of payment tools via Mastercard Cloud Edge, its cloud-based connectivity solution, offered in collaboration with cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc.

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Fintech News

AUGUST 13, 2024

In a recent webinar hosted by the Fintech News Network, experts from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Wise, Airwallex, and LexisNexis Risk Solutions explored the latest trends and developments in cross-border payments, emphasizing the pioneering role of Southeast Asia in this rapidly evolving landscape.

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Wharton Fintech

JANUARY 18, 2024

We provide products from payments and collection, FX and payout all the way to embedded finance to allow or empower any businesses to operate the whole financial and payments stack on top of our platform. Companies such as TripAction and Niven utilize our infrastructure to power reimbursement products worldwide via our core API.

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Fintech News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Banks in Asia-Pacific (APAC) are diversifying their offerings and embracing innovative digital strategies including super-app platforms, financial marketplaces and banking-as-a-service (BaaS) models. Indian bank and financial services company ICICI Bank is highlighted as one of the top BaaS providers in APAC.

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Fintech News

JULY 3, 2024

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and its partners have revealed the comprehensive blueprint for phase three of Project Nexus, which seeks to address longstanding challenges in international money transfers by leveraging the power of domestic instant payment systems (IPS). How Does Project Nexus Work? trillion by 2025.

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The Payments Association

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

By combining Salt Edges Open Banking Compliance solution with Finastras core banking platforms, Fusion Essence and Fusion Equation, the duo empowers institutions to build the necessary architecture to meet end-to-end banking requirements and compliance through a single API. Cobhorn Drive, south Bristol.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

These days, with the emergence of the cloud, open banking and application programming interfaces (APIs, the moniker “as-a-Service” applies to pretty much any business function that is now able to be outsourced to a third party. Technology brings the concept of flexible payments into reality. Flexibility is Key.

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Fintech News

MARCH 26, 2024

In the sixth annual compendium of 500 burgeoning companies across the Asia Pacific (APAC) by the Financial Times and Statista , technology enterprises constitute nearly a third of the 2024 roster, with 8% of the APAC’s fastest-growing entities being fintech companies.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The latest news from the Open Banking ether stems from around the world, including the Asia-Pacific (APAC) and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions, as markets like Israel and South Korea take their first steps to develop and deploy Open Banking regulatory frameworks.

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The Fintech Times

DECEMBER 5, 2023

‌ Currencycloud has teamed up with BriskPe , the Mumbai-based cross-border payments fintech, to expand BriskPe’s customers’ payment options. By integrating Currencycloud ‘s APIs, BriskPe gains the capability to utilise local account-based collections in strategic markets such as the UK, EU, Canada, and the US.

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Fintech News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Singapore is home to a robust and thriving fintech industry that’s often regarded as one of the leading hubs in Asia-Pacific (APAC). Founded in 2012, Apidays is a leading series of worldwide conferences that aims to democratize and evangelize the opportunities of APIs for corporations.

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