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AI Governance in Banking: Most Banks Expect AI to Decide, Few Are Ready
Banks have adopted AI almost universally and mostly lack the governance to support the decisions it makes. Regulators have already written the requirements.
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Thunes Direct Global Network Adds a Venezuela Payout Corridor
Thunes is adding real-time payouts to Venezuela, where remittances are a lifeline. The harder question is what compliant money movement into a sanctioned economy requires.
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AI risk management: RealRelay’s trust-first finance agents
Edvance and CWG have launched RealRelay Fintech, betting on MAS’s new AI risk management rules. We explain the platform, the deadline and what stays unproven.
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Crypto payments: Mesh powers Tokenstore checkout
Mesh and Tokenstore have partnered to bring crypto and stablecoin checkout to digital goods. We explain the orchestration model, why the segment fits, and what remains unverified.
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Cross-border payments: Payoneer Checkout lands in Singapore
Payoneer has opened its Stripe-powered Checkout to Singapore businesses. We explain the partnership behind it, the marketplace-to-DTC shift, and what remains unproven.
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Technology financing: IFS Capital’s regional programme
IFS Capital has launched a regional technology financing programme across four ASEAN markets, covering software and services as well as hardware. We look at the shift behind it — and the credit question it raises.
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Zoomcar taps Bureau for real-time fraud checks
Zoomcar has partnered with Bureau to strengthen user verification and fraud risk assessment. We look at the risk behind the announcement — and at the in-house engine it builds on.
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UOB AWS MoU: AI Banking Behind a Singapore Data Wall
UOB and AWS have signed an MoU to run banking systems and generative AI across a hybrid estate with jurisdiction-specific isolation. We decode the architecture, the data-residency driver, and the regulatory timing two days after MAS’s new AI rules.
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Customs Duty Payment: What DBS’s ICEGATE 2.0 Move Really Adds
DBS Bank India has added customs duty payment to DBS IDEAL through ICEGATE 2.0, completing a GST–direct tax–customs sequence. The “only wholly owned subsidiary” claim rests on a two-bank field, and two of the three headline taxes were abolished in 2017.
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Payment Orchestration: the connector race in Gulf payments
MoneyHash has added UAE provider VaultsPay to its payment orchestration layer, the third such connector in six months. Here is why orchestration matters in the Gulf, and the detail the release leaves out.