Banking Stories

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Yesterday

Bill.me lifts on-time bill payments with open banking

On-time bill settlements rose 17% in three months after the platform added bank-to-bank payments, cutting costs and lifting usage.

Software-as-a-Service

Cyara appoints Ben Corser as APAC go-to-market chief

The hire signals Cyara's push to win more enterprise customers in APAC as firms demand tighter oversight of AI customer-service tools.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Yesterday

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Yesterday

SpaceXAI picks Fabric Group as first Australia partner

The agreement will see Fabric train its engineers as Australia becomes a proving ground for SpaceXAI's push into enterprise software teams.

Private Cloud

Exclusive: Cloudera builds Hadoop-free future platform

Existing customers get six years of support as Cloudera shifts new AI and analytics workloads to a Hadoop-free platform due in November.

By Sean Mitchell • 7 min read • Yesterday

BitGo opens Singapore office as Asia Pacific grows

Client demand across Asia Pacific has tripled since BitGo won its Singapore licence, prompting a bigger hub for custody and trading.

Stories from Other Regions

Banking stories

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • Today

Juspay expands Wego partnership to boost travel payments

Travellers across the Middle East could see fewer failed bookings as Wego adds local payment options through a wider Juspay tie-up.

Smart Cities

Canada sets rules for responsible data centre growth

Local councils will get a national baseline as Ottawa seeks to curb power bills, water use and hidden impacts from new data centres.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 5 min read • Today

Software-as-a-Service

Google launches BigQuery Graph for AI & fraud checks

Fraud teams and AI builders can now query linked data in BigQuery without moving it to a separate graph database, Google said.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Today

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 5 min read • Yesterday

Hyundai Card blends AI & staff in PR writing tests

Blind contests showed AI can speed PR drafting, but Hyundai Card still prefers human judgment for final messaging and brand voice.

Data Protection

As Japan widens bank cyber oversight to data partners, identity becomes the perimeter

Japan's banks face broader cyber risk as regulators begin treating data-sharing partners and AI agents as part of the attack surface.

By Takanori Nishiyama • 2 min read • Yesterday

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • Yesterday

People First Bank launches Backbase digital platform

The staged rollout aims to smooth the merger of two legacy systems for 750,000 customers as the bank overhauls online banking.

Supply Chain

WiseTech widens access to Evergreen eBills of Lading

Shippers and banks using WiseTech's network can now access Evergreen's electronic Bills of Lading within existing workflows, cutting delays.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Yesterday

Software-as-a-Service

Lumin Digital launches M&A readiness framework for banks

Financial institutions face lower merger disruption as Lumin Digital adds a structured migration service for acquisitions and post-launch support.

Raiz cuts account opening times with Alkami platform

Members now open and fund accounts far faster as Raiz slashed online onboarding from up to nine days to about four minutes.

SoFi & Payward link banking with Kraken settlement

Institutional crypto clients could soon settle US dollars around the clock as SoFi ties its banking network to Kraken and lists SoFiUSD on the exchange.