Asia

September 15, 2026 @ 9:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic has signed a memorandum of understanding with blockchain security firm CertiK, creating a long-term framework for cooperation on the country’s planned central bank digital currency and on broader digital asset supervision. The Digital Som is Kyrgyzstan’s official CBDC… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 11:18 am By JD Alois  |  

With a cloture vote scheduled for today and market participants hopeful the bill will move forward, the CLARITY Act, crypto market infrastructure legislation, continues to have a dim outlook on prediction markets that the bill will be approved. Kalshi currently has just a 33% expectation that… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 5:54 am By Michael Wong  |  

Southeast Asian education officials have endorsed an expanded ASEAN Foundation program that aims to equip more than 1.7 million students, teachers and university staff with practical artificial intelligence skills by the end of 2028. The ASEAN Foundation said on Friday that the program, AI Ready… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea‘s crypto investors have again pressed lawmakers to postpone a long-delayed tax on virtual-asset profits, after a National Assembly petition calling for a two-year grace period cleared the 50,000-signature threshold needed for committee review. Regulatory and finance officials, however, have given little indication that they… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:18 am By Michael Wong  |  

Hong Kong and Dubai financial authorities and exchanges have established a Strategic Working Group to strengthen ties between the financial markets of Hong Kong and the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), according to a joint announcement. The move comes as the two financial centres seek to… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 1:20 am By Michael Wong  |  

The Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed amendments to the country’s crowdfunding rules that would raise the amount companies can raise through online platforms while introducing additional safeguards for retail investors. The proposed framework would allow issuers to offer up to 25 million… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 11:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin Suisse, a digital assets focused firm currently based in Zug, is preparing a far-reaching reorganization that would transfer a large share of its Swiss workforce to operations in other countries. The company, founded in 2013, currently employs about 120 people in Switzerland and roughly… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 3:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Metaplanet (TYO: 3350) has reversed a large part of its executive equity package after investors objected to how much dilution the awards could create. The Tokyo-listed bitcoin treasury company said its board approved another rewrite of the Series 10 stock acquisition rights, shrinking the pool… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 3:08 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Shenzhen Xunce Technology Co Ltd plans to secure syndicated loans of up to 10 billion yuan ($1.4 billion) to finance the development of an artificial intelligence inference and computing centre, underscoring the growing capital requirements for China’s expanding AI infrastructure. The company, which provides real-time… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 1:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

India’s capital market regulator has begun a closely watched experiment that could reshape how corporate debt is issued, recorded and paid for. At the Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai, Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra and Securities and Exchange Board of India Chairman Tuhin… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 2:48 am By Michael Wong  |  

Asia-Pacific hardware and software companies that make products with digital elements available on the European Union market are now required to report actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents impacting product security under the bloc’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). The reporting obligations took effect on Sept…. Read More

September 12, 2026 @ 5:54 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Singapore’s central bank is urging financial institutions to prepare for a rapid transformation driven by artificial intelligence, tokenisation, and quantum computing, while strengthening governance and cybersecurity as increasingly autonomous AI systems reshape the financial system. Chia Der Jiun, managing director of the Monetary Authority of… Read More

September 12, 2026 @ 3:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether, the issuer of the world’s most widely used dollar-linked stablecoin, has been publicly thanked by the US Department of Justice for helping investigators disrupt a sprawling marketplace accused of supporting crypto fraud and money laundering. The company said on September 11, 2026, that the… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 1:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On September 9, 2026, US authorities took action against Xinbi Guarantee, a Chinese-language marketplace investigators describe as a central hub for Southeast Asia’s industrial-scale online fraud economy. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) listed the platform as a significant transnational criminal organization and also designated… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 7:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset exchange Gemini (NASDAQ:GEMI) has completed a long-running regulatory process in Singapore, and its local subsidiary now holds a Major Payment Institution (MPI) license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The approval, announced by the company in early September 2026, authorizes Gemini Digital Payments Singapore Pte. Ltd…. Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 2:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Iran-linked cyber spies have been approaching technology specialists in aviation, aerospace and financial services with fabricated job opportunities that conceal previously unseen malware, according to recent findings from Kaspersky. The cluster, which the Russian firm tracks as Mirage Kitten, has focused on developers and other… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 12:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has set a clearer path for companies that take digital assets in the course of trade. The Federal Tax Authority has published Directive on Tax Transactions No. 3 of 2026, which tells taxable persons exactly how to turn cryptocurrency consideration… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 7:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL), the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Tazapay, a Singapore-based specialist in business-to-business cross-border payments. The announcement, made on September 8, 2026, positions the transaction as a way to broaden Circle’s payments infrastructure and… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 3:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Saudi Arabia based payments group PayTabs has struck an agreement to take over Amazon Payment Services’ operations across the MENA region, in a transaction both sides have already approved and valued at more than $100 million. The move would fold Amazon’s regiplatform onal merchant-acquiring and processing… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 2:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DBS (SGX: D05) and Citi (NYSE: C) have shown that commercial banks can move US dollars across the Pacific on a Saturday, without waiting for Monday morning clearing windows. On 5 September 2026, the two institutions completed a live dollar transfer between DBS in Singapore… Read More