The Philippines is tightening VASP oversight as it unveils a $34.4B AI plan, advances ASEAN digital trade, and proposes digitalization budget for 2027.

IPA study reveals that waiving InstaPay transfer fees doubles transaction activity and activates cash-reliant Filipinos.

Philippines' BSP proposes a 12-month freeze on new payment system operators while tightening QR merchant traceability and compliance rules.

Nearly 5,000 people in Fiji are living with rheumatic heart disease, with school-aged children among the most affected. The ...

“El Niño will peak towards the end of 2026, but its impacts will be felt long after that, including on global temperatures.

The following is a fintech and wider digital economic development view of the Solomon Islands in 2026. In the Solomon Islands, getting to a bank can sometimes mean getting into a boat. That simple ...

Aug 19 (Reuters) - Bank of America has appointed Yuta Komori as chair of Asia Pacific Global Industrials Investment Banking (GIG), while naming Meng Gao and Masashi Toda as co-heads of the group, ...

We loved the diminutive Iniu P62 that offered a 20K battery in the smallest possible form, and cooed over the 140W/25K P64. Now the 100W/25K P63 looks like the sweet spot between compact size and ...

Darragh Buckley, founder and CEO of payment fintech Increase and one of Stripe's first employees, has officially launched his own bank. Processing Content Buckley announced this week that Increase now ...

The computer industry has, for years, been in an arms race against itself. Laptops, specifically. Manufacturers pack higher and higher capacity lithium-ion batteries into their laptops, only to ...

The Philippine central bank intervened in a small way to defend the peso last week, Governor Eli Remolona said, as the currency weakened to a record low. “When it’s a strong dollar, we limit ...

MariBank has received an official digital banking license from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, completing its transition from a rural bank classification Existing customers will see no changes to ...