Financial Services
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OCBC Launches AI Avatar Banking, First of Its Kind in SEA
OCBC launches OCBC WoW, an AI-native avatar banking app offering real-time wealth management, a first for South-East Asia. Continue reading
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Qashier Raises $6.125M to Scale SEA Payments Platform
Qashier, a Singapore-based unified merchant platform, has raised US$6.125M in Series A+ funding to expand its SEA payments and SME lending business. Continue reading
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Wonderful Expands Singapore Operations to Scale Enterprise AI
Wonderful expands its Singapore operations with a new General Manager and a platform designed to help enterprises scale AI deployments beyond pilots across Asia Pacific. Continue reading
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Salesforce Powers VIB’s AI Banking Overhaul in Vietnam
VIB deploys Salesforce across its Vietnam retail banking business, unifying data for over 7 million customers and laying groundwork for AI-assisted banking. Continue reading
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Insurance Faces an Inflection Point as Risk Outpaces Resilience
The global insurance industry has reached a structural inflection point as accelerating risk outpaces the sector’s capacity to absorb it, with cyber protection emerging as the single largest source of uninsured risk worldwide, according to new research from NTT DATA.… Continue reading
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Manulife Joins Hong Kong Regulator’s AI Cohort Programme
Manulife Hong Kong has been named a Core Participating Insurer in the latest batch of the Insurance Authority’s AI Cohort Programme, a regulator-led initiative aimed at advancing the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence across the city’s insurance sector. The programme… Continue reading
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Tencent Cloud Bets on Hong Kong as Two-Way AI Gateway
Tencent Cloud is sharpening its strategy to make Hong Kong a bi-directional gateway for global business expansion, using its inaugural Tencent Cloud Day in the city to set out a roadmap for cross-border, enterprise AI adoption. The cloud arm of… Continue reading
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Shadow AI and Governance Gaps Threaten FinServ AI Scale-Up: Nutanix
Financial services organisations are racing to deploy artificial intelligence, but a widening gap between ambition and operational readiness is undermining their ability to scale, according to the eighth annual Financial Sector Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) report released by Nutanix on… Continue reading
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Visa Bets on AI Agents and Stablecoins to Reshape Commerce
Visa has unveiled a broad set of AI, stablecoin and token capabilities at the Visa Payments Forum 2026 in San Francisco, positioning the payments network as the trust and infrastructure layer for the next generation of intelligent and programmable commerce.… Continue reading
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APAC Leads Global Wealth Growth for Second Year as AI Drives Record Gains
Global high-net-worth individual (HNWI) wealth grew 8.7 per cent in 2025 to reach a record USD 98.3 trillion — the largest single-year increase since 2018 — with Asia-Pacific emerging as the fastest-growing region for the second consecutive year, according to… Continue reading
