Managers of Wealth Fintech

BIS Chief Warns Disappointing AI Returns Could Turn Investment Boom “Into a Bust”

The world’s five largest tech companies are expected to spend more than US$1 trillion on AI across 2025 and 2026.

Singapore banks complete first tokenised SGD transactions on Swift blockchain ledger

The completed transactions come days after DBS and OCBC completed a tokenised USD pilot on Swift's ledger with Citi.

MessagePay launches AI Pay+ to predict borrower payments

This allows collections teams to segment portfolios and prioritise accounts with greater precision than traditional delinquency-bucket methods.

AI Can Help Banking – But Customers Still Want a Person

Businesses still want fast, modern payment infrastructure, but they also want a real person behind the process when something goes wrong or when a compliance question needs answering.

Mastercard & Backbase Drive AI-Native Banking Transformation

In this environment, the architecture that sits beneath AI matters as much as the models themselves.

Wealth management’s AI rush: Are firms getting it right?

AI adoption is not just hollow talk at conferences, wealth firms are actively, and eagerly, embracing the technology into their workflows.

U.S. Bank launches USBDC stablecoin

The launch demonstrates the bank's ability to move funds on-chain while leveraging traditional banking system controls and risk management

Circle to buy Singapore-based cross-border payments platform Tazapay

Tazapay brings over $25 billion of annualised payment volume, more than 60 banking and fintech partners, and local payout rails covering over 100 markets.

Backbase Adds Mastercard’s AI Tools to Its Banking OS

Backbase says the collaboration gives banks a faster, more trusted path from AI experimentation to real business outcomes.

Moody’s warns banks over AI tech dependency

The U.S.-based agency said this concentration “risks creating a systemic dependency,” potentially exposing financial institutions to widespread outages, supply disruption and rising costs.

APAC Banks Invest in People to Unlock AI Value

The banks reporting stronger progress are combining AI adoption with organizational transformation to reshape their organizations and reinforce new ways of working throughout the business.

Nationwide: Building its AI future one foundation at a time

Most people never think about the technology behind their bank.

SIX and Twint join Swiss bank stablecoin project

The addition of SIX and Twint contributes additional expertise in financial market infrastructure and digital payments as the programme enters the test phase.

How can banks defend against AI-driven fraud?

Almost half of Asia-Pacific banks lose more than $10m to fraud yearly.

Hoxton Wealth collaborates with AWS on agentic AI tool

The aim is to build and introduce agentic AI tools over a much shorter timeframe.

KB Kookmin Bank partners JP Morgan for blockchain corporate trade payments

The partnership will leverage Kinexys' Blockchain Deposit Account network to enable near-instant USD cross-border settlements for KB Kookmin Bank's import and export clients.

Envestnet Deepens $1 Billion WealthTech Commitment, More Than Doubling Technology Investment in Tamarac

New AI Report Studio, Expanded Custom Model Solutions, And Full MoneyGuide Integration Mark The "Next Era of Tamarac," Giving RIAs Back Valuable Time and Expanding Investment Capabilities To Grow

Mambu launches Intelligent Core to integrate AI with core banking and payments

Intelligent Core brings together Mambu Core, Mambu Payments, and the new Mambu Agentic, connecting intelligence across the banking stack to enable faster decisions and more personalised services.

Shufti’s Shahid Hanif on Onboarding Friction and AI Fraud

Hanif told The Fintech Times why the friction has proved so difficult to fix, and why he believes AI-generated identities are exposing the limits of traditional document-based verification.

Standard Chartered becomes first Global Systemically Important Bank (G-SIB) to launch Institutional Bitcoin and Ether spot trading in the UAE

DFSA regulated offering extends access to digital assets through the DIFC and supports the UAE’s efforts to be a leading global centre for financial innovation

Bitcoin, Blockchain & AI