RegTech

South Korea's new espionage offense covers national secrets obtained for foreign states or equivalent organizations, with chip technology among the cited concerns.

EU Cyber Resilience Act reporting rules now require manufacturers to warn of actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents within 24 hours.

Ant International, Mastercard and Visa are developing common checks for identifying and monitoring AI agents across payment networks.

Bombay High Court set aside orders freezing about ₹100 crore in Coda Payments India’s bank and payment accounts, while leaving related proceedings unresolved.

XTransfer has secured in-principle approval for a UAE retail payment services license, subject to completing the central bank's pre-issuance conditions.

Hong Kong regulators selected 36 agentic AI use cases from nearly 100 proposals for controlled trials across banking and other financial sectors.

Google Cloud has launched preview editions of Gemini Enterprise for financial services and legal teams with specialized agents and connectors.

We’re entering a new era of digital finance: borderless, fast-moving, AI-powered. But if our compliance systems still move like it’s 2013, we’re dragging yesterday’s infrastructure into tomorrow’s markets. The good news? Change is already happening.

Silent Eight announced Wednesday the closing of a $40 million Series B funding round led by TYH Ventures. The round was also joined by HSBC Ventures. OTB Ventures, Wavemaker Partners, SC Ventures (Standard Chartered Bank's venture unit), Aglaia, and Koh Boon Hwee, Chairman and General Partner of Altara Ventures, continued their investment from previous…

viAct, an AI construction tech (contech) startup based out of Hong Kong, automates construction monitoring using a combination of computer vision, edge devices and a mobile app.