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More than three million DBS PayLah! users in Singapore can now make QR payments at over 100 million merchants across mainland China through Alipay and Weixin Pay networks, expanding the bank's cross-border payment coverage in the country, DBS said on Thursday. 

Tokenized money is increasingly becoming a mainstream tool for large corporations to move value instantly round-the-clock, with greater control across a wider network of markets, a survey showed on Wednesday. 

DBS Bank Ltd., the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of World Bank Group and Malayan Banking Berhad (Maybank), will back the $6 billion Johor-Singapore renewable energy financing framework. 

Swift and banks including DBS, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and IDFC FIRST Bank are exploring cross-border payments using mobile or email aliases.

Tencent Cloud and AI Singapore have launched a Singapore hackathon with DBS, Keppel, Aspire, Ryde and NTU LKCMedicine providing real-world agentic AI challenges.

Google Cloud has opened a Singapore Engineering Center linking AI research, cloud product development and enterprise deployment across Southeast Asia.

DBS, OCBC and UOB completed live domestic Singapore-dollar interbank transactions using tokenized deposits on Swift's blockchain ledger.

Singapore-based banking group DBS and US lender Citi have teamed up to enable instant cross-border USD payments with tokenized deposits.

More than 15,000 accountants and finance professionals have enrolled in ISCA's AI Fluency Programme within two months, putting the initiative about a quarter of the way toward its three-year target of 60,000 participants.

Singapore banking group DBS and US payment firm Stripe have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the growth of agentic commerce and cross-border payments in Asia.