Payment systems

Paying with your face in an age of deepfakes: Is it still a good idea?

For many consumers across Asia, there are plenty of cashless payment options available, whether it is scanning a QR code or tapping their phone.

Derek Chan named as CEO of new entity governing Singapore’s payment schemes

Germany’s SAP hits $14.3 billion quarterly revenue milestone, lifts 2026 view

Cloud revenue rose 26% in the third quarter, with CEO Christian Klein saying that artificial intelligence was “the main driver behind customers’ move to the cloud”.

Google Cloud outage in UK eases after impacting digital banks, public sector websites

Google said its engineering team was investigating the issue, which impacted the London-based europe-west2 data centre.

You can transfer money in seconds, so why do some house purchases still require paper?

A property transaction involves much more than transferring money from one bank account to another, says the writer.

Visa approved to prepare domestic payments business in China

Visa’s clearance of the regulatory hurdle will allow it to operate in China’s US$144 trillion payments market and marks the end to its years-long pursuit.

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Corporate cheques end in Jan 2027: CDL has already switched, and homebuyers benefit too

family buy new house

India built the world’s largest digital payments system for free. Now, it must protect it

A shop at a wholesale market in Delhi. A new fee set to be imposed on some Unified Payments Interface transactions in India has generated anger among merchants.

While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Sept 30, 2026

Payments giant Visa has open-sourced part of its AI-powered cyber defence system, amid AI models’ exposure of software vulnerabilities.

Visa joins growing alarm over AI-powered risks

Visa processes roughly a billion payments a day worth around US$15 trillion (S$19.2 trillion) a year, making it a key part of the world’s financial plumbing system.

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