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The Philippines' two largest digital wallets are both eyeing 2026 stock listings, with Maya further along on a dual Manila-New York plan while GCash's domestic IPO still lacks a confirmed date.
The SEC will lift its nearly five-year moratorium on new online lending platforms starting August 1, but the replacement rules…
US fintech raised $16 billion across 445 deals in Q2 2026, its strongest quarter in over a year, but nearly…
MAS and a group of banks and fintechs published SAFR, a framework governing how AI agents get authorized to actually…
Senate Bill 1917, the proposed OFWs Remittance Protection Act, would let regulators set actual allowable fee ranges for remittance providers…
99.8% of firms now offer some embedded financial feature, but a $265-million-plus BaaS middleware collapse in 2024 and a wave…
Klarna and Affirm posted genuinely profitable quarters in early 2026, but Affirm's stock climbed on heavier loss provisioning while Klarna's…
CLICX went live as Thailand's first licensed virtual bank on June 19, 2026, with CP Group's Ascend Bank chasing a…
Wise moved its primary listing to Nasdaq, Nubank won a US national bank charter in 121 days, and Revolut hit…
Tonik became the first standalone digital bank in the Philippines to reach cash-flow profitability in Q1 2026, a milestone GCash…
Grab is consolidating its stake in Indonesia's publicly-listed Superbank into GXS Bank, its Singapore digital banking venture with Singtel, combining…
Kredivo Group finalized its acquisition of Vietnam's Timo digital bank in March 2026, extending a BNPL and lending platform already…