MariBank’s Digital Bank Upgrade Leaves Just Three Slots in the Philippines’ Race
BSP upgraded MariBank Philippines to a full digital bank license this month, making Shopee parent Sea Limited the seventh operator…
Tag: fintech regulation
The UK Just Turned Buy Now, Pay Later Into a Regulated Credit Product
New FCA rules took effect July 15, requiring BNPL lenders to run affordability checks and answer to the Financial Ombudsman…
BSP Is Quietly Rewriting the Rules for Every Digital Bank and E-Wallet in the Philippines
The central bank is forcing every supervised bank and e-wallet to kill SMS and email one-time passwords by the end…
The Philippines Just Reopened the Door to New Online Lending Apps. This Time With Real Teeth.
The SEC will lift its nearly five-year moratorium on new online lending platforms starting August 1, but the replacement rules…
Singapore’s Central Bank Just Set the Rules for Letting AI Agents Touch Real Money
MAS and a group of banks and fintechs published SAFR, a framework governing how AI agents get authorized to actually…
Embedded Finance Is Now Almost Universal. Regulators Are Finally Catching Up.
99.8% of firms now offer some embedded financial feature, but a $265-million-plus BaaS middleware collapse in 2024 and a wave…