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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.
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Atomic Settlement: what Solana’s DvP program proves, and the question DTCC keeps asking
Solana has open-sourced an audited delivery-versus-payment program for institutions, with input from J.P. Morgan. Here is what atomic settlement actually does — and why DTCC keeps asking whether the market wants it everywhere.
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Dubai Crypto Licensing: what a VARA in-principle approval actually gets you
Caladan’s VARA in-principle approval is a step, not a licence — the regulator’s own register forbids holders from operating. Here is what Dubai crypto licensing actually involves, and why Singapore pushed firms like this one to Dubai.
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Tokenized Fixed Income Moves Past T-Bills With Plume’s nBND Vault
Plume’s nBND vault is the first tokenized vault backed by Fidelity’s FBND. It marks a shift from T-bill yield into credit and duration — and two catches keep the hype in check.
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FOMO Pay Adopts Sumsub to Scale Compliance as It Expands
FOMO Pay’s adoption of Sumsub’s verification and monitoring stack is modest — but it sits inside a real surge in AI-powered fraud and deepfakes across APAC.
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24/7 Settlement: Payward and Singapore Gulf Bank Take On the Weekend Problem
Payward’s deal with Singapore Gulf Bank is one more attempt to fix the mismatch between always-on crypto markets and banking-hours fiat — a race Western Alliance, Jiko, ClearBank and the ECB are all running.