payments

SFF 2025: AI-driven cyber and deepfake risks emerge as top threats in financial services

Banks and payment giants at the Singapore FinTech Festival warned about deepfakes, cyberattacks, and AI-driven fraud even as they push aggressively into agentic AI and design their firms around AI-native operating models. With risks rising, leaders said 2026 will force a balance between ambition and safeguards.

November 15, 2025

A more structured way to finance corporate supply chains

Structured financing solutions for supply chains are increasingly important in offering treasury teams greater agility and visibility over their transactions. This enables corporates in Asia to achieve their goal of simpler, faster and more reliable ways to trade across borders, according to our latest edition of the HSBC Smarter Business Series.

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How e-commerce is powering the payments revolution

As more organisations go digital, they seek faster and more predictable ways to move money. In the HSBC Smarter Business Series, experts from HSBC and Stripe Australia discuss how payment solutions are adapting to the shift to e-commerce.

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How a unicorn like Airwallex stands up to a challenge (like a pandemic)

The Tencent-backed global payments and foreign exchange unicorn debuted its borderless card last month in Australia, but headwinds, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, is taking its toll on its existing client base.

March 23, 2020

OVO-partnered Indo startup charts street stalls’ path to online success

Jakarta-based Warung Pintar has pushed thousands of “mom and pop” shops into the 21st century by digitising their businesses. The startup has raised $35 million to date and tells FinanceAsia it’s keen for more investors to come in.

March 03, 2020

Razer Fintech hires DBS’ Koh for global push

The veteran entrepreneur and investor joins in the firm's second major appointment in less than a month.

October 03, 2019

Razer’s fintech arm brings on board GIC’s Lim to help with global push

The Hong Kong-based gaming hardware company plans a global expansion of its payments arm. Lim, who has held executive positions at GIC, MAS and within the Singaporean civil service, could prove a useful ally.

September 11, 2019

Q&A: Dana CEO on how to build a payments app for Indonesian millennials

Former gaming entrepreneur Vincent Iswara explains how he holds the attention of his youthful user base and leans on the support of his tech-savvy shareholder Ant Financial.

September 02, 2019

Ant Financial gives Dana app firepower for Indonesian payments battle

Dana CEO Vincent Iswara aims to prove ‘first-mover’ theory wrong. With backing from the Alibaba affiliate plus plans to raise more capital, his company represents a credible threat to existing players.

September 02, 2019

Visa hedges bets by backing Gojek and Grab in SEAsia payments race

The global payments processor has invested in Gojek as well as earlier backing Grab.

July 17, 2019